KAUST is currently participating in the SC’14 Conference in New Orleans, LA. This annual event brings together leaders in high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, providing the perfect opportunity for KAUST to announce its new supercomputer.
Shaheen II is a Cray XC40 supercomputer that is twenty-five times more powerful than KAUST’s current system and is expected to arrive on campus in March 2015. Read more on the KAUST website here.
At SC’14, which runs until November 21, KAUST brought some of the Red Sea to New Orleans through an impressive exhibition on KAUST research (and even included an aquarium):
