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September 24, 2008, 10:39 AM ET
New Saudi University Will Work With IBM on Supercomputer
The new King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia, plans to work with IBM to build a supercomputer that will be one of the world’s fastest machines, capable of 222 teraflops — 222 trillion floating-point operations per second.
According to the university, the machine will have 65,536 independent processing cores and will be the fastest in the Middle East — and the sixth-fastest commercially-available system in the world. It is designed to be energy efficient and to be expanded to offer petaflop capacity — 1,000 trillion floating-point operations per second.
The machine will be installed at the university’s campus in Thuwal. It will be used by researchers in various disciplines, the university said, and by the research partners at other institutions. It is a project of the new university’s KAUST/IBM Center for Deep Computing Research, which will initially have its headquarters at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory, in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The center will move to the university’s campus when it opens next summer. —Lawrence Biemiller
Categories: Computer-Science, Research
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