Facilities

KAUST Shaheen II

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 16.04.6 LTS
  Processor: Two sockets eight-cores Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2650 @ 2.00GHz
  RAM: 64GB
  GPUs: Two NVIDIA GTX TITAN and two NVIDIA K20 GPUs

• Hostname: raed.kaust.edu.sa
  OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
  Processor: Two sockets eight-cores Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2650 @ 2.00GHz
  RAM: 64GB
  GPUs: Two NVIDIA GTX TITAN and two NVIDIA K20 GPUs

• Hostname: buraq.kaust.edu.sa
  OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
  Processor: Two sockets ten-cores Intel Ivy Bridge E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  RAM: 256GB 
  GPUs: Two NVIDIA K40 GPUs

• Hostname: shihab.kaust.edu.sa
  OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 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 16.04.6 LTS
  Processor: Two sockets fourteen-cores Intel Broadwell v4 @ 2.40GHz 
  RAM: 256GB 
  GPUs: Eight NVIDIA K80 GPUs

• Hostname: condor.kaust.edu.sa
  OS: CentOS Linux Release 7.2
  Processor: One socket sixty four-cores Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing @ 1.3 GHz 
  RAM: 128GB
  GPUs: none

• 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 16.04.6 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