KAUST Makes Strategic Investment in Supercomputing to Advance Scientific Discovery
The KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab operates Shaheen II, a 36-cabinet Cray XC supercomputer based on Intel Haswell processors with nearly 200,000 compute cores tightly interconnected with the Cray Aries high-speed interconnect.
KAUST today announced the acquisition of a Cray XC40 supercomputer. This new system, called Shaheen II, will be twenty-five times more powerful than KAUST’s current system. With this investment, KAUST will significantly augment its world-class academic and research facilities and capabilities to advance scientific discoveries.
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