KFUPM HPC Cluster 

Commissioned System

The center presently has the following HPC cluster.

128-node Dual-boot Cluster 

• 128 compute-node e1350 IBM eServer cluster.
•  The cluster is unique in its dual-boot capability with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating systems.
• The cluster has 3 master nodes, one for Red Hat Linux, one for Windows HPC Server 2008 and one for cluster management.
• The cluster has 128 compute nodes.
• Each compute node of the cluster is dual-processor having two 2.0 GHz x3550 Xeon Quad-core E5405 processors.
• The total number of cores in the cluster is 1024.
• Each master node has 1 TB of hard disk space.
• Each compute node has 500 GB of hard disk space.
• Each master node has 8 GB of RAM.
• Each compute node has 4 GB of RAM.
• The interconnect is 10 GBASE-SR