Aurora
Argonne National Laboratory runs Aurora at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE open-science machine for simulation, AI and data analysis in drug design, batteries, fusion, cosmology, reactors and AuroraGPT.
What it runs and how to get time
From the operator- Used for What the operator says the system is used for: science domains, missions or workloads. Taken from the operator, its funder or the system vendor, not from TOP500.
- Open science: materials and battery discovery, drug design, fusion, cosmology, reactors, digital twins, APS and LHC data analysis, and AuroraGPT science LLM training 5
- How to get time How researchers or customers get time on the system, naming the allocation programme where the operator states one.
- DOE INCITE and ALCC allocation programs, plus Aurora Early Science Program projects 5
- Cooling Cooling design stated by the operator or supplier.
- Liquid cooled; facility loop of about 44,000 gallons through cooling towers, chillers, heat exchangers and filtration 6
- Power design Facility power, energy supply or heat reuse as stated by the operator. Not the benchmark power in the Power column.
- Facility upgrade added 14 substations supplying 60 MW for Aurora, future systems and the building 6
- Facility Building, data centre or campus that houses the system, as described by the operator.
- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory; Aurora fills about 10,000 sq ft of floor space 5
- Production start Month the operator says the system entered production.
- 2025-01 5
- Status Operating status, filled only when the operator states it.
- In production 5
Benchmark and hardware
Source per value- Rank Position in the TOP500 edition named in the Edition column. Historic systems keep the rank of the edition where they last appeared.
- 4 1
- Rmax PFLOP/s Measured double-precision LINPACK (HPL) performance of the listed configuration. Older TFLOP/s and GFLOP/s figures are converted to PFLOP/s.
- 1,012 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 1,980.01 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 51.1 1
- Power kW Power reported for the benchmark run. Measurement boundaries vary by site; this is not facility power, TDP or cooling capacity. Empty when the system does not report it.
- 38,698 1
- Efficiency GFLOP/s per W Rmax per watt of reported benchmark power, computed from the two sourced figures (GFLOP/s per W). Empty when power is not reported.
- 26.15 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory 1
- Country Country or region reported by TOP500 for the site.
- United States 1
- City Site city as reported by TOP500 or the operator. It can be the operator address rather than the machine room.
- Argonne 3
- Region World region of the installation country (grouping applied by this site).
- Americas 1
- Vendor Manufacturer or system supplier exactly as submitted to TOP500.
- Intel 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- Other 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- HPE Cray EX - Intel Exascale Compute Blade 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz 1
- Accelerator Accelerator model listed for the system. Empty when TOP500 lists none.
- Intel Data Center GPU Max 1
- Accelerator vendor Maker of the accelerator. None listed means TOP500 names no accelerator for the system.
- Intel 1
- Interconnect Network fabric exactly as listed in the cited TOP500 edition.
- Slingshot-11 1
- Fabric Interconnect family derived from the listed interconnect (grouping applied by this site).
- Slingshot 1
- Cores cores Total cores submitted to TOP500, including accelerator cores where TOP500 counts them. Not a CPU-only count and not a CUDA-core count.
- 9,264,128 1
- Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
- 2023 2
- Edition TOP500 edition (YYYY-MM) that supplies the ranking and benchmark data. A historic edition does not assert current operating status.
- 2026-06 1
- OS Operating system from the TOP500 system record.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/180183/ 2
- Nodes nodes Compute node count as described by the operator. It can exceed the nodes used in the benchmark run.
- 10,624 4
- Accelerators per node per node Accelerator packages or superchips per node, as the operator describes them.
- 6 4
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11
- docs.alcf.anl.gov (operator page) accessed 2026-11-11
- Argonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science accessed 2026-11-11
- Argonne lays the groundwork for its Aurora exascale supercomputer accessed 2026-11-11
- ALCF Allocation Programs accessed 2026-11-11