Kuwait · operational · hpc

IKARUS

Also known as Integrated Kuwait Advanced Research for Ultrafast Systems

Operated by KISR .

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

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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
Integrator	- KISR-operated platform of more than 2,000 compute cores with 500 TB scratch storage and 400 GB/s interconnect	KISR	-	Reported	khpc.kisr.edu.kw

The read

Kuwait's first national HPC and AI platform, run by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and unveiled in the week before 16 August 2025 according to the Kuwait Times. KISR's HPC page lists more than 2,000 compute cores, 3.9 GHz turbo, 500 TB of scratch storage and 400 GB/s interconnect bandwidth, with no node count, GPUs or vendor stated; the Times only says it handles hundreds of trillions of calculations per second. Access is limited to accredited researchers in Kuwait. No peak FLOPS or location is published, so none is recorded.

Timeline

2025-08 Announced source

Change history

2026-10-02 Added IKARUS, Kuwait's first national HPC and AI platform

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
khpc.kisr.edu.kw	names system only	-
kuwaittimes.com	names system only	-

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.