High-Performance Computing User Facility

NLR's High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Facility features state-of-the-art computational modeling and predictive simulation capabilities to help researchers and industry reduce the risks and uncertainty of energy technologies and systems integration.

The HPC User Facility provides computing capabilities to scientists and engineers working on solving complex computational and data analysis problems.

Kestrel Computing System

Kestrel is the latest HPC system at NLR dedicated to advancing energy technologies. Kestrel accelerates energy research at a pace and scale more than five times greater than Eagle, the previous supercomputer, with approximately 44 petaflops of computing power. See the Kestrel Versus Eagle Supercomputer Stack-Up infographic.

Like Eagle, Kestrel was designed and built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and has an innovative warm water liquid-cooling system that allows waste heat to be captured for reuse.

Previous Computing Systems

The two previous HPC systems at NLR were Eagle and Peregrine. Eagle, a 2,000-node, 8-petaflop system, served the lab from 2019 to 2024. Peregrine, a 2500-node, 2.4-petaflop system, was the first HPC system installed in the Energy Systems Integration Facility in 2013 and was in service through 2019.