DOE Office of Science user facilities at a glance (web)
Citation
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science. “User Facilities at a Glance.” Web page, date not stated. https://science.osti.gov/User-Facilities/User-Facilities-at-a-Glance. Copy: raw/web/2026-11-10 DOE Office of Science user facilities at a glance.md (original: .html beside it). Read 2026-11-10.
Bottom line
- Each DOE Office of Science user facility has a program “owner” that pays for its construction and operation “through congressional appropriations”.
- The page shows the first 12 facilities in its list, from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to the DIII-D National Fusion Facility. One of the 12, the Advanced Light Source (ALS), is “at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory”, as an image caption states.
Background
The DOE Office of Science runs national user facilities at its laboratories: supercomputers, light sources, nanoscience centers, accelerators and fusion devices. This page is the entry point to the list. It links to one list for each of the six science programs, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) among them.
Key claims
- “Each Office of Science user facility exists through investment by a program “owner” – the Office of Science program that provides funds through congressional appropriations for construction and operations.” (User Facilities at a Glance)
- “The decision to invest in a user facility emerges through long term strategic planning with the scientific community to identify the research tools that will deliver the greatest scientific impact to advance the DOE mission.” (same section)
- “Each user facility represents a substantial commitment on the part of its sponsoring program, which provides oversight and works closely with the facility management to maximize scientific impact and productivity.” (same section)
- “The ALCF provides the computational science community with a world-class computing capability dedicated to breakthrough science and engineering.” (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility)
- “DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion user facility in the U.S., is a tokamak confinement device with significant engineering flexibility to explore the optimization of the advanced tokamak approach to fusion energy production.” (DIII-D National Fusion Facility)
Evidence and method
An official agency page. It states the funding and oversight model in three sentences, then gives one line for each facility. It gives no budgets, no user numbers and no access rules.
Limits
The page shows only the first part of its list in the copy that the library read. The other facilities are not in this copy. User numbers and access rules are on the linked pages “User Statistics” and “Policies and Processes”, which the library has not read. The page gives no location for most facilities.