Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (Frontier supercomputer)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy) · Oak Ridge, TN · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 35.92951, -84.31057
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-21
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
Frontier, an HPE Cray EX exascale system with AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs (74 cabinets, 1.6 EF peak), was delivered in 2021 and opened for early operations in 2022; ranked No. 1 on the TOP500 in 2022
Underlying source
Source notes
DOE Office of Science user facility housing Frontier (exascale HPC used for simulation and AI training/analysis) and, from 2028, the Discovery supercomputer for the DOE Genesis Mission. Facility power draw and floor area are not stated on the fetched pages, so no capacity is asserted. Distinct from the tracked DOE Oak Ridge Reservation AI data center lease sites.
Sources and provenance
- Frontier — Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (delivered 2021, early operations 2022; HPE Cray EX, AMD EPYC/Instinct; 1.6 EF peak) · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- OpenStreetMap node 10648552506: 'Frontier (supercomputer)', operator Oak Ridge National Laboratory, telecom=data_center · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Call for Proposals Open to Develop Discovery Supercomputer's First Science Applications (OLCF, Jan 12, 2026) — Discovery arriving in 2028 at ORNL · source retrieved 2026-09-21
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.