Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

ALCF Resources
Leadership Computing Resources

The ALCF provides users with access to supercomputing resources that are significantly more powerful than systems typically used for open scientific research.
Computing Resources

Aurora

Polaris

Theta and ThetaGPU

ALCF AI Testbed

Cooley

Evaluation Testbeds

Storage and Networking
Facility Expertise

Facility Expertise
Featured: Aurora
Science
Computational Science

The ALCF is accelerating scientific discoveries in many disciplines, ranging from chemistry and engineering to physics and materials science.
Output

Projects

Publications
Allocation Programs

INCITE Program

ALCC

Director’s Discretionary

Early Science Program
Featured: Engineering
Community and Partnerships
Growing the HPC Community

The ALCF is committed to providing training and outreach opportunities that prepare researchers to efficiently use its leadership computing systems, while also cultivating a diverse and skilled HPC workforce for the future.
Partnerships

Industry

Partners
Educational Outreach

Women in STEM

Student Outreach

Training Researchers
About
Accelerating Science

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
Get to Know More

Leadership

People

Organizational Chart

User Advisory Council

History
Visit

Visiting ALCF

Tours
Latest

News

Careers
Press Kits

ALCF Media Kit

Aurora Media Kit

Reports Archive
Support Center
Support Center

The ALCF Support Center assists users with support requests related to their ALCF projects.
Current

Machine Status

Facility Updates

Accounts Website

Training

Training Videos & Slides

Training Overview

Training and Events
Guides

Get Started

Account and Project Management

Theta and ThetaGPU

AI Testbed

Cooley

Aurora

Facility Policies
Featured: Get Started

ALCF User Guides

argonne-lcf/alcf-userguide

Home
Account and Project Management
Account and Project Management
- Accounts and Access
- Passcode Tokens
- Accounts and Access FAQs
- Project Management
  Project Management
- Allocations
  Allocations
Data Management
Data Management
- ALCF Community Data Co-Op
- Sharing on Eagle Using Globus
- Transferring Data to Eagle
- Data Transfer
  Data Transfer
  - SFTP and SCP
  - Using Globus
- File System & Storage
  File System & Storage
Services
Services
- Getting Started
- JupyterHub
- Continuous Integration
  Continuous Integration
Running Jobs with PBS at the ALCF
Running Jobs with PBS at the ALCF
Polaris
Polaris
- Getting Started
- Known Issues
- Hardware Overview
  Hardware Overview
  - Polaris Machine Overview
- Compiling and Linking
  Compiling and Linking
- Build Tools
  Build Tools
  - CMake
- Running Jobs
- Applications and Libraries
  Applications and Libraries
  - Applications
    Applications
    
    GROMACS
    
    LAMMPS
    
    OpenMM
    
    VASP
  - Libraries
    Libraries
    
    Math Libraries
    
    Cabana
- Data Science
  Data Science
  - Julia
  - Python
  - Containers
  - Frameworks
    Frameworks
    
    TensorFlow
    
    PyTorch
    
    Jax
    
    DeepSpeed
  - Applications
    Applications
    
    gpt-neox
- Programming Models
  Programming Models
  - OpenMP
  - SYCL
  - Kokkos
- Debugging Tools
  Debugging Tools
  - CUDA-GDB
- Performance Tools
  Performance Tools
  - NVIDIA-Nsight
- Visualization
  Visualization
  - Paraview
- Workflows
  Workflows
  - Balsam
  - Parsl
  - libEnsemble
Theta
Theta
- Hardware Overview
  Hardware Overview
- Compiling And Linking
  Compiling And Linking
- Queueing and Running Jobs on Theta
  Queueing and Running Jobs on Theta
- Applications and Libraries
  Applications and Libraries
  - Applications
    Applications
    
    ELPA
    
    Gromacs
    
    LAMMPS
    
    NAMD
    
    NwChem
    
    QMCPack
    
    QBox
    
    Quantum Espresso
    
    Quantum Package
    
    VASP
    
    WEST
  - Libraries
    Libraries
    
    Boost
    
    Spack
  - Visualization
    Visualization
    
    Remote Visualization Using VNC
- Data Science
  Data Science
- Programming Models
  Programming Models
  - Kokkos
  - MPI
  - OpenMP
  - Raja
- Debugging Tools
  Debugging Tools
  - Overview
  - Arm DDT
  - ATP and STAT
  - GDB
- Performance Tools
  Performance Tools
  - Arm MAP
  - CrayPat
  - Darshan
  - HPCToolkit
  - Intel Advisor
  - Intel Vtune
  - PAPI
  - TAU
ThetaGPU
ThetaGPU
- Getting Started
- Hardware Overview
  Hardware Overview
  - ThetaGPU Machine Overview
- Compiling And Linking
  Compiling And Linking
  - Compiling and Linking Overview
  - Continuous Integration
- Queueing and Running Jobs on ThetaGPU
  Queueing and Running Jobs on ThetaGPU
  - Job and Queue Scheduling
  - Machine Reservations
- Applications and Libraries
  Applications and Libraries
  - Applications
    Applications
    
    Gromacs
- Data Science
  Data Science
  - Data Science Software Availability
  - Building Python Packages
  - GPU Monitoring
  - GPU Node Queue and Policy
  - Python/C++ Code Interoperability
  - Containers
  - Deep Learning Frameworks
    Deep Learning Frameworks
    
    Distributed Training on ThetaGPU Using Data Parallelism
    
    DeepSpeed on ThetaGPU
    
    Running PyTorch with Conda
    
    Running TensorFlow with Conda
    
    TensorBoard Instructions
- Programming Models
  Programming Models
  - Kokkos
  - OpenMP
  - Raja
- Performance Tools
  Performance Tools
  - Darshan
  - NVIDIA Nsight
AI Testbed
AI Testbed
- Getting Started
- Cerebras
  Cerebras
  - System Overview
  - Getting Started
  - Running a Model/Program
  - Customizing Environments
  - Job Queuing and Submission
  - Example Programs
  - Tunneling and Forwarding Ports
  - Miscellaneous Miscellaneous
    Table of contents
    
    Porting applications to the CS-2
- Graphcore
  Graphcore
- SambaNova Gen1
  SambaNova Gen1
- SambaNova Gen2
  SambaNova Gen2
- Data Management
Cooley
Cooley
- Hardware Overview
  Hardware Overview
  - Cooley Machine Overview
- Compiling And Linking
  Compiling And Linking
  - Compiling and Linking Overview
- Queueing and Running Jobs
  Queueing and Running Jobs
  - Job and Queue Scheduling
- Software and Libraries
  Software and Libraries
- Programming Models
  Programming Models
  - Kokkos
  - OpenCL
  - OpenMP
  - Raja
- Performance Tools
  Performance Tools
  - Darshan
  - Remote Visualization Using VNC
Aurora/Sunspot
Facility Policies
Facility Policies
- Overview of Policies
- ALCF Acknowledgement Policy
- Account Policies
  Account Policies
- Queue and Scheduling Policies
  Queue and Scheduling Policies
- Data and Software Policies
  Data and Software Policies
  - Data Policy
  - Software Policy

Miscellaneous

Porting applications to the CS-2

Cerebras documentation for porting code to run on a Cerebras CS-2 system:
Ways to port your model