Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque

Operated by Sandia National Laboratories. Hosting 8 systems in this dataset, 2 of them currently operational.

Systems hosted: 8
Installed Rmax: 69.14 PFlop/s
Recorded power: 6.13 MW
Cooling: Air cooling (CRAC/CRAH)

Facility facts

Power, cooling and efficiency figures for Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, each with its own source and date.

Fact	Value	As of	Basis	Source
IT power	14 MW Design capacity of the 725E HPC data centre at full buildout (LEED v4 Gold, completed October 2018); a design figure, not the current load.	2023-02	Operator stated	datacenters.lbl.gov
Machine-room floor area	1,300 m2 The 725E addition is 14,000 square feet (converted at 0.0929 m2 per sq ft, rounded); it connects to the 725W data centre completed in 2005.	2023-02	Operator stated	datacenters.lbl.gov sandia.gov
Cooling	Warm-water direct liquid cooling with thermosyphon dry coolers, air and water economisers and chillers as back-up; supply water about 76 F as of August 2022 LBNL/FEMP case study dated 2023-02.	2023-02	Operator stated	datacenters.lbl.gov

Systems at this site

System	Rmax	Power	First operational	Status
El Dorado	68.02 PFlop/s	1.11 MW	2024-11	operational
Sky Bridge	532.90 TFlop/s	675 kW	2015-01	decommissioned
Red Sky	433.50 TFlop/s	4.34 MW	2010	decommissioned
Red Storm	101.40 TFlop/s	-	2005	decommissioned
Thunderbird	46.40 TFlop/s	-	2005	decommissioned
ASCI Red	1.07 TFlop/s	-	1997-06	decommissioned
Intel Paragon XP/S 140	143.4 GFlop/s	-	1993	decommissioned
Hala Point	-	2.6 kW	-	operational

Facility fields are recorded only where a public source states them. Blank means we have not found one, not that the value is zero: an important distinction if you are aggregating power or PUE across sites.