KACST National HPC

    The term high performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters, that is, computing systems comprised of multiple (usually mass-produced) processors linked together in a single system with commercially available interconnects. This is in contrast to mainframe computers, which are generally monolithic in nature. While a high level of technical skill is needed to assemble and use such systems, they can be created from off-the-shelf components. Because of their flexibility, power, and relatively low cost, HPC systems increasingly dominate the world of supercomputing. Usually, computer systems in or above the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.

The term is most commonly associated with computing used for scientific research. A related term, High-performance technical computing (HPTC), generally refers to the engineering applications of cluster-based computing (such as computational fluid dynamics and the building and testing of virtual prototypes). Recently, HPC has come to be applied to business uses of cluster-based supercomputers, such as data warehouses, line-of-business (LOB) applications and transaction processing.

This project is aiming and focusing on building the first national HPC for universities and research centers in Saudi Arabia. This project will help in facilitating and increasing the research in Saudi Arabia by reducing the time and cost in creating scientific simulations and solving problems.

This project will be the first milestone in building Saudi Arabia research infrastructure opened to all education and research sectors.
ISU is intending to build an HPC in the near future.

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