Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

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Leadership Computing Resources

The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.

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Computational Science

The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.

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Growing the HPC Community

The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
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Accelerating Science

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
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Support Center

The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.

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Email: support@alcf.anl.gov
Guides
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Marcos Sotomayor

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2026 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon

Events

Deploying Inference Services at ALCF

Events

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Building a Virtual AI Biomedical Scientist

Events

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Expediting Astronomical Discovery with AI Agents: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions:

Events

Towards Mechanistic Forecasting of Viral Drug Resistance Evolution

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My Path in Hardware-Software Co-Design and High Performance Computing

Events

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Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK

Publications The Astrophysical Journal

Quasiaperiodic Grain Boundary Phases of Σ⁢5 Tilt Grain Boundaries in Refractory Metals

Publications Physical Review B

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Leadership Computing Resources

Featured: Aurora

Computational Science

Featured: Engineering

Growing the HPC Community

Accelerating Science

Support Center

Featured: Get Started

Featured: MyALCF

Janet Scheel

Marcos Sotomayor

2026 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon

Deploying Inference Services at ALCF

Building a Virtual AI Biomedical Scientist

Expediting Astronomical Discovery with AI Agents: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions:

Towards Mechanistic Forecasting of Viral Drug Resistance Evolution

My Path in Hardware-Software Co-Design and High Performance Computing

Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK

Quasiaperiodic Grain Boundary Phases of Σ⁢5 Tilt Grain Boundaries in Refractory Metals