About ALCF

The ALCF is a national scientific user facility located at Argonne National Laboratory.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at Argonne National Laboratory, enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing and AI resources to the research community.

ALCF computing resources—available to researchers from academia, industry, and government agencies—support large-scale computing projects aimed at solving some of the world’s most complex and challenging scientific problems. Through awards of supercomputing time and support services, the ALCF enables researchers to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation across a broad range of disciplines.

As a key player in the nation’s efforts to provide the most advanced computing resources for science, the ALCF is helping to chart new directions in scientific computing through a convergence of simulation, data science, and AI methods and capabilities.

Supported by the DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, the ALCF and its partner organization, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, operate leadership-class supercomputing resources that are orders of magnitude more powerful than the systems typically used for open scientific research.

2022 by the Numbers


2022 Stats

Node-hours of compute time

35M

Active projects

385 Data from fiscal year 2022

Publications

217

Facility users

1,538 Data from fiscal year 2022

ALCF Training Events

34

ALCF Training Event Participants

2,058


2022 ALCF Users by Affiliation

Academia

882

Government

564

Industry

92


2022 U.S. ALCF Users by State

100+ Users 11–100 Users 1–10 Users
California
Illinois
Colorado
Florida
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Alabama
Arizona
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Nevada
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Virginia
Washington D.C.
West Virginia