Supercomputers/Systems/Ibex
Saudi Arabia · operational · mixed
Ibex
Also known as KAUST Ibex cluster
Operated by KAUST at KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
- Rmax
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W NVIDIA V100 32GB GPU nodes, 37 nodes with 2-8 GPUs each | NVIDIA | - | Reported | docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa |
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU nodes, 54 nodes with 4-8 GPUs each | NVIDIA | - | Reported | docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa |
| CPU | - AMD Rome (108 nodes of 128 cores) and AMD Turin (50 nodes of 192 cores) | AMD | - | Reported | docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa |
| CPU | - Intel Skylake and Cascade Lake nodes (106 each, 40 cores), plus Sapphire Rapids large-memory nodes | Intel | - | Reported | docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 200 Gb/s per port · About 0.6 microseconds HDR InfiniBand on all GPU nodes | NVIDIA | - | Reported | docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa |
The read
KAUST's heterogeneous Slurm cluster for university researchers, run by the Supercomputing Core Lab alongside the Shaheen systems. KAUST documentation lists four CPU families (106 Intel Skylake and 106 Cascade Lake nodes of 40 cores, 108 AMD Rome nodes of 128 cores, 50 AMD Turin nodes of 192 cores, plus large-memory nodes up to 16 TB) and GPU nodes spanning Pascal, Turing, 37 Volta V100 nodes and 54 Ampere A100 80 GB nodes, all on HDR InfiniBand. Both URLs are KAUST's own documentation, so the tier is reported, and no installation year or total FLOPS is published.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab
- Location
- Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Cooling
- Direct liquid cooling
- Commissioned
- 2009
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Ibex, KAUST's heterogeneous CPU and GPU research cluster
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa | names system only | - |
| docs.hpc.kaust.edu.sa | names system and part | NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.