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## **Home**

QCRI Research Computing Infrastructure

## **About Qatar Foundation**

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, non-profit organization that serves the people of Qatar by supporting and operating programs in three core mission areas: education, science and research, and community development. The Foundation strives to nurture the future leaders of Qatar. By example and by sharing its experience, the Foundation also contributes to human development nationally, regionally, and internationally. In all of its activities, the Foundation promotes a culture of excellence in Qatar and furthers its role in supporting an innovative and open society that aspires to develop sustainable human capacity, social, and economic prosperity for a knowledge-based economy.

## **About QCRI**

Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) is a national research institute, established in 2010 by Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development, a private, non-profit organization that is supporting Qatar’s transformation from a carbon economy to a knowledge economy. QCRI operates under the umbrella of Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU).

QCRI’s mission is to conduct innovative, multidisciplinary applied computing research that addresses national priorities by enhancing the quality of life for citizens, enabling broader scientific discoveries and making local businesses more competitive globally.

QCRI's main pillars focus on:

-   Conduct research of the highest quality and publish research results of indisputable value.
    
-   Introduce visionary solutions to significant scientific or technological challenges.
    
-   Create an environment that fosters dedication to honest and ethical research practices and scientific processes.
    
-   Provide leadership in our areas of expertise to global science, international research communities and local society.
    
-   Promote open collaboration among colleagues and with partners.
    
-   Be result-oriented and provide solutions to emerging problems, ensuring alignment with national priorities.

## **QCRI Research Computing Infrastructure**

The QCRI Research Computing Infrastructure aims to ensure a computing infrastructure to the QCRI researchers that can sustain cutting-edge research computing initiatives across all areas and disciplines. It provides access to high‐speed, high‐capacity computing resources helping the QCRI researchers to effectively and efficiently conduct their research experiments.

The Research Computing Infrastructure provides instant high performance compute, storage, network resources and other functionality, thus enabling the  QCRI research groups to build their own scalable platforms that fit their exact needs and requirements. It furnishes access to state-of-the-art high-performance computing resources, on-premise self-service provisioning virtualized servers, Azure public cloud services, along with experts advise and support, enabling research initiatives ranging from artificial intelligence, deep learning and genomics to natural language processing and cybersecurity.

Our services include a portfolio of computational and associated data storage environments to support QCRI's research requirements and any other initiatives.

Typical services offered by the QCRI Research Computing Infrastructure are:

-   On-premise Cloud Computing services, (self-service provisioning Private Cloud)
    
-   Public Cloud services
    
-   GPUs Cluster for High-Performance Computing
    
-   GPUs as a Service (Virtual Machines with GPU Acceleration)
    
-   Large-scale Research Storage Services
    
-   Networking Services
    
-   Research Network
    
-   Security and VPN Services
    
-   Applications Delivery & Monitoring 
    
-   Experts Advice and Consults
    
-   End-Users Support Services
    
-   Desktop Support Services
    

Our team of technology professionals strive to align the research computing infrastructure to the specific needs of the QCRI research groups and to the strategic initiatives of QCRI.

## **External Links**

[Visit QF portal here...](https://www.qf.org.qa/)

[Visit QCRI portal here...](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri)

[Visit HBKU portal here...](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en)

## Children

- [QCRI Research Computing Infrastructure - Blog](https://qdocs.qcri.org/space/public.md)
- [QF/HBKU News - Announcements](https://qdocs.qcri.org/space/qfhbkunews.md)