Saudi Arabian supercomputer enters top ten list

[SQ8]

Which part is Saudi:

1. Hardware
2. Core software
3. Interface
4. Installation
5. Support system(s)
6. Simulation modeling

Or just the cash?

It is an IBM Cray XC40. So the last bit is what is Saudi. Calling it shaheen, saqr, nasr , buum, qird ,Qalb or Himaar wont change that.

More on the system from the User's own webiste
KAUST Makes Strategic Investment in Supercomputing to Advance Scientific Discovery

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

More on the Cray XC40
Cray XC Series Supercomputers | Cray
Cray® XC40™ and XC40-AC™ supercomputers are enabled by a robust Intel® Xeon® processor road map, Aries high performance interconnect and flexible Dragonfly network topology, providing low latency and scalable global bandwidth to satisfy the most challenging multi-petaflops applications.

While the extreme-scaling Cray XC40 supercomputer is a transverse air-flow liquid-cooled architecture, the Cray XC40-AC air-cooled model provides slightly smaller and less dense supercomputing cabinets with no requirement for liquid coolants or extra blower cabinets. A reduced network topology lowers costs, and the system is compatible with the compute technology, OS, ISV and software stack support of high-end XC40 systems.

The same system is also used by
India, Australia, Germany, UK and all over the US.

Hence, all the Saudis provide at the end is

 

[Styx]

'Saudi' my ***, they bought it and they hire people to run it

that a 'Saudi' engineer at work, I suppose ?

 

[Providence]

'Saudi' my ***, they bought it and they hire people to run it

that a 'Saudi' engineer at work, I suppose ?

And, I remember India used to hire professors for IITs in 60s and 70s ? The path on which saudis have set themselves on is what matters here ! Kindly don't berate their efforts !

 

[Saif al-Arab]

It seems that the 2 above individuals did not read the article or missed the entire discussion of this thread.

Of course this supercomputer, one of the most advanced and powerful in the world currently, was not built in KSA or by Saudi Arabians. Neither was it built by 200 million big Pakistan or 1.3 billion big India.

It seems that our two friends, one of them a serial Indian troll, are incapable of realizing that you need to start somewhere and the reality is that US is dominating 90% of the supercomputing market currently but that should not necessarily mean that KSA cannot cooperate with the US and gain knowledge and improve on this field - a field that is very much in its earliest infancy in KSA.

And, I remember India used to hire professors for IITs in 60s and 70s ? The path on which saudis have set themselves on is what matters here ! Kindly don't berate their efforts !

Ignore the clown. He like many others are fuming and have nothing useful to add other than trolling. Nobody invited them either.

I guess that they were/are of the opinion that such technology will fall down from the sky. Funny when their countries and their achievements are based on foreign (Western) technology. Everything. Yet when KSA follows a similar model in its infancy it suddenly becomes a crime.

 

[Gasoline]

Which part is Saudi:

1. Hardware
2. Core software
3. Interface
4. Installation
5. Support system(s)
6. Simulation modeling

Or just the cash?

The cash, electricity (it comes without batteries) and the name*

 

[nForce]

One picture of the Saudi Super computer and that too with a Caucasian guy working on it ?

 

[Echo_419]

Never ! Not with shaheen (KAUST). Need new indigene supercomputer in collaboration with China, Pakistan or may be Turkey (In 10 or 15 years).

Shaheen Restrictions usage (PDF link)


This one (Shaheen), it's just to learn to master, one the best machines in the world.



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India is a good partner too
On topic
Congrats to our Saudi friends

 

[Gasoline]

'Saudi' my ***, they bought it and they hire people to run it

that a 'Saudi' engineer at work, I suppose ?

One picture of the Saudi Super computer and that too with a Caucasian guy working on it ?

The picture taken while the initial installation process.

Here is another one (you can realize what is written on the suit ) :

Or you thought it to be a one single piece like laptops plug-and-play ?

The story is different here, you'll get it as a hundreds of pieces and simple mistake means your 80 millions...... :

 

[Styx]

The picture taken while the initial installation process.

Here is another one (you can realize what is written on the suit ) :

Or you thought it to be a one single piece like laptops plug-and-play ?

The story is different here, you'll get it as a hundreds of pieces and simple mistake means your 80 millions...... :

allrite allrite, I was needlessly trolling

good job, supercomputers and technology are cool.

 

[Gasoline]

@Saif al-Arab

 

[nForce]

The picture taken while the initial installation process.

Here is another one (you can realize what is written on the suit ) :

Or you thought it to be a one single piece like laptops plug-and-play ?

The story is different here, you'll get it as a hundreds of pieces and simple mistake means your 80 millions...... :

Hehe.. post some more pictures if possible

 

[Mujahid Memon]

Hey stop copying our names.

This is Shaheen II :

and its way too powerful than a supercomputer

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

Which part is Saudi:

1. Hardware
2. Core software
3. Interface
4. Installation
5. Support system(s)
6. Simulation modeling

Or just the cash?

'Saudi' my ***, they bought it and they hire people to run it

that a 'Saudi' engineer at work, I suppose ?

One picture of the Saudi Super computer and that too with a Caucasian guy working on it ?

That's enough !!! It is for our civilization, our country, our universities, our students. Bigs Jerks !!!


Quote :

Shaheen-Cray XC40 supercomputer arrives at KAUST
Apr 16, 2015

“The new Cray XC40 system is going to be much more broadly useable,” said Greg Newby, Manager of KAUST’s Supercomputing Laboratory. This was one of the University’s main requirements when selecting a new system. Currently, around 20-25% of the University’s faculty, as well as students, postdocs, researchers and external collaborators use the supercomputing resources on campus. This very active, capable and computationally savvy group always looks forward to the next innovative technology.

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Why Scientists Use Supercomputers?

A concrete example would be modeling the movements of the wind. Scientists may be interested in predicting how the wind will transport sand and dust across the desert into the Red Sea. This information may be of interest to those developing solar cells -- where dust is a major factor. Modeling and predicting the movements of the wind is complicated. So computing the wind at high resolution requires the use of a supercomputer – especially if we’re looking at an entire region. What a system like Shaheen-Cray XC40 allows scientists to do is to divide the region in X and Y coordinates and thus forming a grid system. Those grid cells could, for example, represent one-kilometer square. Each vertical layer can then be separated into units such as 100 meters of height, or 30 millibars of atmospheric pressure, creating a 3D grid.

The next step would be to input some initial conditions, set certain assumptions, and then instruct the supercomputer to run the simulation. The system will analyze the wind in a particular cell and then advance the clock, to say a fraction of a second, to the next cell in order to determine how the wind’s movements have evolved – so on until the next computation. Each processor node handles the computation for a different cell. So the supercomputer essentially divides the problem into grids handling different computational elements.

“That’s what makes a problem good for supercomputing. If you can take the problem and divide it into component parts and then spread out those component parts to the different computational processors. Kind of similar to a car engine that has 6 or 8 pistons, they’re all working together.” as Newby describes.

KAUST

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Abeer Al-Saggaf is a M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at KAUST

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Shaheen Cray XC40 (KAUST)

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[Gasoline]

Hehe.. post some more pictures if possible

It will be a pleasure for me to post videos not only pics, but unfortunately that was all I have currently ...