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Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

Argonne, Illinois, United States.

Stage not knownUnited States

What we checked

DOE lists Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory. (source)
DOE records the facility's locality as Argonne, Illinois. (source)

This is an attributed scientific-facility identity/locality record, not a verified physical campus, building or phase boundary. Host laboratory is not a verified legal operator or owner. The US country filter is an explicit state-to-country normalisation, not a copied country field or geocode. No present operation, hardware, capacity, power, capital flow or available compute is inferred. Related programme navigation retains each existing record's own check date and cautions; it does not verify a current open call or eligibility. Three selected identities do not establish national or worldwide completeness.

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Operator: Not stated
Owner: Not stated
Stage: Stage not known

Read the DOE Office of Science facility account
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Related recorded research routes

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DOE INCITE Record evidence checked 11 October 2026.
DOE ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) Record evidence checked 11 October 2026.

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Linked U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science / ASCR source articles: Selected DOE-authored government information: public domain. DOE acknowledgement: https://science.osti.gov/ascr/Facilities/User-Facilities. Reduced and adapted to the selected facility name, host laboratory and locality, with original uncertainty wording. No endorsement. Third-party resources, contractor sites, images, quotations, hardware, statistics and other assets are excluded. This is not blanket domain or recurring-monitoring permission.

ALCF allocation preparation

ALCF says researchers at universities, in industry and in government agencies can seek a Director's Discretionary allocation without DOE sponsorship.
ALCF describes this route as preparation for major INCITE or ALCC awards and requires projects to demonstrate a need for leadership-class resources.

ALCF: Director's Discretionary information. Read the current ALCF public programme information and follow its official application route if the project fits.

Scoped decision evidence checked 17 October 2026; next review by 23 October 2026. Source publication and update dates are not stated. This scoped account does not verify nationality eligibility, every access condition, a guaranteed award, an active account, free access or available compute. Earlier facility identity, system-name and INCITE/ALCC evidence keep their original dates and cautions. The corroborating allocation guide was created on 30 August 2022 and updated on 7 October 2026; those dates do not date the undated programme page.

Argonne National Laboratory / ALCF: Source copyright retained; exact basic-fact use assessed only. Two minimal attributed basic facts and ordinary unframed information link only. No source narrative, quotations, images, contacts or datasets reproduced or adapted. No open licence, public-domain status, endorsement, blanket domain clearance or recurring-monitoring grant. The earlier DOE-authored public-domain assessment does not cover this contractor content. No express restriction was visible on the complete programme and allocation-guide originals; the parent Argonne homepage returned 403 once and its conditions remain uninspected, not permission inferred from absence. Reassess newly evidenced applicable conditions without a paraphrase workaround.

Named systems in the official account

DOE names Aurora and Polaris among ALCF computing resources. DOE source

Names-only evidence checked 17 October 2026; next review by 23 October 2026. A named system is not an additional facility or evidence of a separate campus or phase. This association does not verify current operation, hardware specifications, capacity, available compute, an open call or eligibility. Earlier identity evidence and related programme dates are unchanged. Source page update date is not stated.

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science / ASCR: Selected DOE-authored government information: public domain. Reduced to named-system associations only, with DOE acknowledgement and original links. No endorsement. Excludes images, quotations, third-party resources, technical specifications, statistics and rankings. Not blanket source or recurring-monitoring permission.

Printable community case file

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

Record checked 17 October 2026. Prepared from the public ComputeFinder record; follow each cited source before relying on it.

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Question	What this record currently shows	Useful next step
What stage is evidenced?	Stage not known, date not recorded	Inspect the stage source and limits
Where is the formal decision evidence?	Not recorded here.	First identify whether an application exists and which authority or process applies; then inspect its file, reference, status, consultation window, decision and conditions
How can the public participate?	Not recorded here.	Record the official route, deadline, decision-maker and how responses are considered
Which promises became outcomes?	Review 2 checked statements and mark each as proposal, commitment, permission, construction, operation or delivered outcome.	Keep proposed, committed and delivered states separate, with dates and responsible parties

ALCF allocation preparation

ALCF says researchers at universities, in industry and in government agencies can seek a Director's Discretionary allocation without DOE sponsorship.
ALCF describes this route as preparation for major INCITE or ALCC awards and requires projects to demonstrate a need for leadership-class resources.

ALCF: Director's Discretionary information. Read the current ALCF public programme information and follow its official application route if the project fits.

Evidence carried into this printout

Recorded stage. Stage not known, with no stage source recorded.
Checked statement. DOE lists Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory. source
Checked statement. DOE records the facility's locality as Argonne, Illinois. source

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What we do not know yet

These facility fields are not recorded here. This does not show that the facility lacks them or that no source exists. A gap means unknown, never zero.

0 of 13 facility fields recorded

2 separately recorded source statements. These are not included in the facility-field count.

0 of 13 facility fields recorded against the existing target. Separately recorded source statements are not counted in this field measure. Still missing:

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Operator
Stage
Capacity (MW)
Power source
Grid connection
Cooling
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Water use
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Planning reference

Checked on 17 October 2026. Reported and planned figures are shown as such. Independently reviewed on 17 October 2026: the two selected DOE-authored name/host and locality statements, explicit US normalisation, exact reduced reuse and existing programme navigation only. Missing facility fields remain unverified. If something is wrong or you know more, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 17). Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF): evidence and recorded limits. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/data-centres/alcf-argonne

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_data_centres_alcf_argonne,
  title        = {Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF): evidence and recorded limits},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-dc-0080}},
  number       = {cf-dc-0080},
  note         = {Page last checked 17 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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