High Performance Computing (HPC) Center

High Performance Computing @ King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

In an effort to advance research in High Performance Computing and to provide premium computing services to researchers throughout the university, KFUPM has recently created its highly specialized Center for High Performance Computing (HPC). The center will serve as a central gateway to the high performance computing resources of the university. The center with its recently acquired IBM cluster system will enable interdisciplinary research as well as research in individual disciplines and will support users with the best possible computing infrastructure to carry out their research.

Through this site, faculty researchers can view the systems and services available to perform their research, open accounts for access to these computational resources and obtain service and support to successfully and smoothly carry out their projects. The HPC project strengthens the position of KFUPM as a leader, not only in deploying high-tech infrastructure, but also in advancing it for scientific and engineering applications.  

	HPC Facilities Center for HPC houses a high-end IBM e-Server with 128 compute nodes. Each compute node is dual processor with each processor being a quad-core totaling a massive 1024-core cluster system.
	HPC Collaboration Center for HPC collaborates with several university departments to cater to their computing needs. Presently, the center is providing facilities to the researchers in the disciplines of Chemistry, Physics & Mechanical Engineering.