Oak Ridge NL Frontier

Compute

7.3K H100e

Chips

37,632

First operational

May 30, 2022

Oak Ridge NL Frontier is a large GPU cluster operated by US Department of Energy, located in the United States, in the public sector. It came online around May 2022. At that moment it ranked number 2 among known clusters.

It is built on 37,632 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X. That amounts to about 7.3K H100e of AI compute. The cluster draws roughly 40 MW. Its hardware is estimated at $620M.

Epoch AI rates the certainty of this record as confirmed. (9408 nodes)x(4 GPUs/node) = 37,632 GPUs

Full record

Owner: US Department of Energy
Users: US Government, Academia, Industry
Sector: Public
Status: Existing
Country: United States
Location: Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5200, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Primary chip: AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
Primary chip count: 37,632
Total AI chips: 37,632
H100 equivalents: 7.3K
8-bit throughput: 1.4×10¹⁹ OP/s
Power capacity: 40 MW
Hardware cost: $620M
First operational: May 30, 2022
Rank when it came online: 2
Certainty: Confirmed