Hardware and Operating System Requirements

Because of the very specific nature of Kima's security model, explained in the validators intro and in the Kima White Paper, you need to ensure you meet the following hardware requirements before you become a Kima validator:

Must be an Intel XEON E-series or any other XEON supporting SGX-SPS (Server Platform Services). The motherboard must also support SGX.

CPU: 4vCPU (8vCPU recommended)

RAM: 16GB (32GB recommended)

Storage: 512GB HDD (1TB recommended)

Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

SGX requirements

Must be an Intel XEON E-series or any other XEON supporting SGX-SPS (Server Platform Services). The motherboard must also support SGX. The below list of supported SGX-compliant CPUs List is current for the first half of 2024

Compliant CPUs

• Intel XEON E-2174G

• Intel XEON E-2176G

• Intel XEON E-2178G

• Intel XEON E-2186G

• Intel XEON E-2188G

• Intel XEON E-2274G

• Intel XEON E-2276G

• Intel XEON E-2278G

• Intel XEON E-2286G

• Intel XEON E-2288G

• Intel XEON E-2334G

• Intel XEON E-2386G

• Intel XEON E-2388G

Compliant servers

Manufacturer	Model
Supermicro	X11SCM-F
Supermicro	X11SCM-LN8F
Supermicro	X11SCW-F
Supermicro	X11SCZ-F
Supermicro	X11SSL-F
Supermicro	X11SCD-F
Supermicro	X11SCE-F
Supermicro	X11SCH-F
Supermicro	X11SCH-LN4F
Supermicro	X11SCL-F
Supermicro	X11SCL-LN4F
Supermicro	X12STW-TF
Supermicro	X12STW-F
Supermicro	X12STL-IF
Supermicro	X12STL-F
Supermicro	X12STH-SYS
Supermicro	X12STH-LN4F
Supermicro	X12STH-F
Supermicro	X12STE-F
Supermicro	X12STD-F
Dell	R240
Dell	R350
HP	DL20 G10
HP	DL20 G10+