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# ORNL Frontier (Exascale HPC)

Facility record `fac-ornl-frontier` — data source: scrutica-fixtures (https://www.top500.org/system/180047/); authority tier 3

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | hpc center |
| Status | operational |
| Location | Oak Ridge, Tennessee, US (35.9313, -84.3103) |
| Power capacity | 22.7 MW |
| IT load | not published |
| GPU count | 37,888 |
| Peak PFLOPS (FP16) | not published |
| Owner | not published |
| Operator | not published |
| Announced | not published |
| Operational | 2022-05-30 |

Grid context: balancing authority Tennessee Valley Authority; grid carbon intensity 407 gCO2/kWh.

DOE exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 37,888 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. 1.194 EFLOPS Rmax (FP64) on LINPACK.

## Cite

> Scrutica, "ORNL Frontier (Exascale HPC)" (facility record), https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-ornl-frontier; data source: scrutica-fixtures; accessed 2026-07-27.

Full interactive record: https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-ornl-frontier · Methodology for derived values: https://scrutica.com/methodology#flop-estimation · All programmatic surfaces: https://scrutica.com/agents