El Dorado
Sandia National Laboratories runs El Dorado, a smaller twin of LLNL's El Capitan, so NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing codes can be built, tested and validated before running at exascale.
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.
- Application-readiness on-ramp for NNSA ASC codes ahead of El Capitan, plus production cycles and experimental R&D such as new workflows 4
- Cooling Cooling design stated by the operator or supplier.
- Direct liquid cooled compute nodes, with coolant piped through fluid-filled heat sinks 4
- Status Operating status, filled only when the operator states it.
- Operational 4
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.
- 41 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.
- 68.02 1
- Rpeak PFLOP/s Theoretical peak double-precision performance of the listed configuration. This is not AI or mixed-precision throughput.
- 95.29 1
- HPL efficiency % Rmax divided by Rpeak: the share of theoretical peak the system delivered on LINPACK. Computed from the two sourced figures.
- 71.4 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.
- 1,110 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.
- 61.28 1
- Site Host or operator named by TOP500 for the installation.
- Sandia National Laboratories 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.
- Albuquerque 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.
- HPE 1
- Vendor group Supplier grouped for filtering. Bull is the Eviden/Atos line; Other covers single-system suppliers.
- HPE 1
- System model Hardware platform in the cited TOP500 edition.
- HPE Cray EX255a 1
- Processor CPU description in the cited TOP500 edition; clock and core count refer to the processor model.
- AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz 1
- Accelerator Accelerator model listed for the system. Empty when TOP500 lists none.
- AMD Instinct MI300A 1
- Accelerator vendor Maker of the accelerator. None listed means TOP500 names no accelerator for the system.
- AMD 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.
- 383,040 1
- Installed Installation year reported in the TOP500 system record. Not necessarily the year of production acceptance.
- 2024 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.
- TOSS 2
- TOP500 record Link to the TOP500 database record for this exact submission.
- https://www.top500.org/system/180309/ 2
Sources
- TOP500 list, June 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 system record accessed 2026-11-11
- TOP500 site record accessed 2026-11-11
- Sandia's El Dorado supercomputer ranked 20th fastest in world accessed 2026-11-11