KAUST Shared Facilities

KAUST's Core Laboratories and Major Facilities directly support the research mission of the University by providing state-of-the-art research facilities, training and expert services to the KAUST research community. With more than 135 staff scientists, engineers, specialists, technicians and administrators, the Core Labs function as a shared-user facility and play a key role in encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration through ease of access to major equipment and a consistent mode of operation.

ECRC x86 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Servers

Currently, ECRC has numerous servers where users can experiment and tests their codes before running them in the clusters of the KAUST Core Labs. The server list is the following:

  • Hostname: almaha.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets eight-cores Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2650 @ 2.00GHzHz
    RAM: 64GB
    GPUs: Two NVIDIA GTX TITAN and two NVIDIA K20 GPUs
  • Hostname: shihab.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets eighteen-cores Intel Haswell E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz 
    RAM: 256GB
    GPUs: One NVIDIA GTX TITAN GPUs
  • Hostname: jasmine.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets fourteen-cores Intel Broadwell v4 @ 2.40GHz 
    RAM: 256GB 
    GPUs: Eight NVIDIA K80 GPUs
  • Hostname: thana.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: CentOS Linux Release 7.2
    Processor: One sockets ten-cores IBM Power 8
    RAM: 256GB
    GPUs: none
  • Hostname: flamingo.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets twenty eight-cores Intel Skylake 8176 @ 2.10GHz 
    RAM: 192GB 
    GPUs: Two NVIDIA V100 GPUs
  • Hostname: vulture.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets twenty-cores Intel Skylake 6148 @ 2.40GHz 
    RAM: 384GB 
    GPUs: Two NVIDIA V100 GPUs
  • Hostname: qaysar.kaust.edu.sa 
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS 
    Processor: Two sockets twenty-eight Intel IceLake 6330 @ 2.00GHz
    RAM: 1024GB 
    GPUs: Four NVIDIA A100 GPUs
  • Hostname: neser.kaust.edu.sa 
    OS: CentOS Linux Release 7  
    Processor: ARM FUJITSU A64FX
    RAM: 32GB 
    GPUs: none
  • Hostname: kanary.kaust.edu.sa 
    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS 
    Processor: Two sockets sixty-four AMD Milan 7713
    RAM: 256GB 
    GPUs: Four AMD Mi100 GPUs
  • Hostname: stork.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: CentOS Linux Release 8.1
    Processor: two sockets Twenty-four-cores Intel SkyLake 6126 @ 2.60GHz 
    RAM: 96GB
    GPUs: Two SX-Aurora 10B VEs 
  • Hostname: batriq1.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets Twenty eight-cores Intel IceLake 
    RAM: 128GB
    GPUs: Two Intel Arctic Sound GPUs
  • Hostname: batriq2.kaust.edu.sa
    OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    Processor: Two sockets Twenty eight-cores Intel IceLake 
    RAM: 128GB 
    GPUs: Two Intel Arctic Sound GPUs