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September 24, 2008

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

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1. Just what you need for thermonuclear research. Big Blue should keep an eye out for user names like bobbyahmadinejad123 or bobbyjoeahmadinejad605, e.g.

   — June Dania Quayle    Sep 24, 01:58 PM    #

2. No. 1 is correct. Even though the university is named after a vicious anti-semite and Wahabist sociopath there might be some hope.

   — Marty    Sep 24, 02:10 PM    #

3. No. 1 is correct. Even though the university is named after a vicious anti-semite and Wahabist sociopath there might be some hope, but IBM should be careful.

   — Marty    Sep 24, 02:11 PM    #

4. Is it legal to take this type of technology out of the country? What about ITAR and EAR regulations.

   — Frank    Sep 24, 04:19 PM    #

5. #1-3 are correct, unfortunately, money buys anything/everything.

   — mk    Sep 25, 10:33 AM    #

6. #1-5 contain Racists remarks and analysis. Saudi Arabia has always been a friend of the US and western world.

   — Dino    Sep 25, 01:08 PM    #

7. May I say to No. I, it’s doubtful that Iran’s Ahmadinejad will have ready access to Saudi Arabia’s nuclear technology. It’s that Shiite-Sunni thing that too many of our politicians have trouble grasping.

   May I also say to No. 6, the Saudi friendship is not, shall we say, unambiguous. Saudi supported educational institutions have, for just one thing, been significant disseminators of anti-American and anti-Westerner propaganda.

   — Richard Hennessey    Sep 25, 04:11 PM    #

8. To No. 6. Saudi Arabia is a friend of the West. Not so Saudi Arabians

   — adolfo gonzalez    Sep 26, 03:46 PM    #

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