Systems
Nazarbayev University's Research Computing Support offers two main HPC platforms: Shabyt and Muon. Shabyt serves as the primary platform for conducting research tasks, while Muon is a private HPC system exclusively dedicated to Professor Sergeiy Bubin's research group.


Shabyt cluster
- 20 Compute nodes with dual AMD EPYC 7502 CPUs (32 cores / 64 threads, 2500 MHz Base), 256 GB 8-channel DDR4-2933 RAM, Rocky Linux 8.7
- 4 Compute nodes with dual AMD EPYC 7452 CPUs (32 cores / 64 threads, 2.3 MHz Base), 256 GB 8-channel DDR4-2933 RAM, dual NVidia Tesla V100 GPUs 32GB HBM2 RAM, CentOS 7.9
- 1 interactive login node with AMD EPYC 7502P CPU (32 cores / 64 threads, 2.5 MHz Base), 256 GB 8-channel DDR4-2933 RAM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
- Mellanox Infiniband 100 Gb/s interconnect for compute traffic
- 16TB internal NVMe SSD Storage
- 144TB HPE MSA 2050 SAS HDD Array
- Theoretical peak CPU performance of the system is 60 TFlops (double precision)
- Theoretical peak GPU performance of the system is 65 TFlops (double precision)
Muon cluster
- 11 Compute nodes with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU e5-2690v4 (14 cores / 28 threads, 2600 MHz Base), 64 GB 4-channel DDR4, Rocky Linux 8.9
- 1 interactive login node.
- HPE 5800 1Gb/s interconnect for compute traffic.
Cluster name | Short description | Contact details |
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High-performance bioinformatics cluster "Q-Symphony" | Hewlett-Packard Enterprise – Apollo (208 Cores x Intel Xeon, 3.26 TB RAM, 258 TB RAID HDD, RedHat Linux) Max computing performance: 7.5 TFlops Optimized for bioinformatics research and big genomics datasets analysis |
Ulykbek Kairov Head of Laboratory - Leading Researcher, Laboratory of bioinformatics and systems biology, Private Institution National Laboratory Astana Email: ulykbek.kairov@nu.edu.kz |
Intelligence-Cognition-Robotics | GPUs: 8X NVIDIA Tesla V100 Performance: 1 petaFLOPS GPU Memory: 256 GB total CPU: Dual 20-Core Intel Xeon, E5-2698 v4 2.2 GHz ... |
Zhandos Yessenbayev Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Computational Materials Science for Energy Application, Private Institution National Laboratory Astana Email: zhyessenbayev@nu.edu.kz |
Computational resources for AI infrastructure at NU | NVIDIA DGX-1 (1 supercomputer): GPUs: 8 x NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU Memory: 256 GB CPU: ... |
Yerbol Absalyamov Technical Project Coordinator, Office of the Provost - Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Nazarbayev University Email: yerbol.absalyamov@nu.edu.kz Makat Tlebaliyev Computer Engineer, Office of the Provost - Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Nazarbayev University Email: makat.tlebaliyev@nu.edu.kz |