Los Alamos NL Chicoma

Compute

161 H100e

Chips

512

First operational

Dec 20, 2021

Los Alamos NL Chicoma is a large GPU cluster operated by US Department of Energy, located in the United States, in the public sector. It came online around December 2021. At that moment it ranked number 60 among known clusters.

It is built on 512 NVIDIA A100. That amounts to about 161 H100e of AI compute. The cluster draws roughly 0.44 MW. Its hardware is estimated at $18M.

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Full record

Owner: US Department of Energy
Users: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sector: Public
Status: Existing
Country: United States
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Primary chip: NVIDIA A100
Primary chip count: 512
Total AI chips: 512
H100 equivalents: 161
8-bit throughput: 3.2×10¹⁷ OP/s
Power capacity: 0.44 MW
Hardware cost: $18M
First operational: Dec 20, 2021
Rank when it came online: 60
Certainty: Likely