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 computing 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.

2023 by the Numbers


2023 Stats

Node-hours of compute time

35.7M

Active projects

417 Data from fiscal year 2023

Publications

240

Facility users

1,624 Data from fiscal year 2023

ALCF Training Events

34

ALCF Training Event Participants

3,586




2023 ALCF Users by Affiliation

Academia

857

Government

620

Industry

147




2023 U.S. ALCF Users by State

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




ALCF Staff Numbers

Staff Members

128

Postdoctoral Researchers

17

Summer Students

31