Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory explores fundamental scientific challenges in energy and security―and delivers transformative solutions to them. Their work may start in the theoretical but it ends in the marketplace in the products and services that make our world safer, cleaner, and healthier.

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Pushing Beyond Exascale

The Discovery supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to be built by HPE and AMD will push beyond exascale and power new innovation, scientific discovery and insights. This system will combine HPC, AI and quantum computing to deliver impactful breakthroughs in precision medicine, cancer research, materials science, nuclear fusion, aerospace and more.

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Built by HPE, ORNL’s TDS and full system are ranked #17 and #34 respectively on the Green500, with 62.68 gigaflops/watt power efficiency for the TDS system, 54.98 for the full system%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Ftop500.org%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%20rel%3D%22noopener%20noreferrer%22%20external-link%3D%22true%22%20data-analytics-region-id%3D%22footnote_tip%7Clink_click%22%3ETop500%3C%2Fa%3E%2C%20November%202025
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Built by HPE, ORNL’s Frontier supercomputer is #3 on HPL-MxP list at 11.4 exaflops%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Ftop500.org%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%20rel%3D%22noopener%20noreferrer%22%20external-link%3D%22true%22%20data-analytics-region-id%3D%22footnote_tip%7Clink_click%22%3ETop500%3C%2Fa%3E%2C%20November%202025

Advancing discovery with Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Learn more about the groundbreaking achievements and ongoing scientific endeavors powered by Frontier, the world's first verified exascale system dedicated to open science. Discover how Frontier is driving scientific progress and fostering collaboration across academia, national labs, federal agencies, and industry.

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Frontier: Moving the future forward

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announces the Frontier supercomputer, and with it, a new era of insights, answers, and innovation. The 2 exaflops-capable system will make possible transformative science—advancing knowledge in everything from medicine to biology to material science to deep space to climate change. Frontier is both the culmination of a long-term dream—and the start of countless new ones.

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