>>19756861 lb

There's huge data in Saudi Arabia - not sure if everyone is aware of that.

https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/809551

Updated 21 September 2015

JEDDAH: Seven supercomputers from Saudi Arabia are on the latest list of the world’s 500 most powerful machines.

Three of them — Makman, Faris and Makman-2 — belong to Saudi Aramco. Two supercomputers — Shaheen and Shaheen II — are located at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), one — Sanam — at King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and one at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.

Seven KSA supercomputers in Top 500 list

AI needs horsepower for big data.

>>19757494

heard it was an Iranian type -

https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/1714648354003566709

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1714597774950297651

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/politics/us-shoots-down-drones-iraq/index.html

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>>19757334

>>19756861 lb

Published: 27th September 2022 6:54 pm IST

Riyadh: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has decided to accelerate its Artificial Intelligence with the upcoming supercomputer Shaheen III.

https://www.siasat.com/kaust-to-build-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-the-middle-east-2422010/

Supercomputing capacity has become increasingly vital to global innovation, industry competitiveness and economic growth.

From accelerating vaccine discovery to fight a pandemic, advancing clean energy systems to increase sustainability, to enabling new possibilities in AI, supercomputing is a core technology for solving the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that they have been selected by KAUST to build Shaheen III. The supercomputer is expected to promote advancement in the fields of food, water, energy and the environment

The new Shaheen III system will revolutionize KAUST’s ability to process vast amounts of data at immense speed and scale.

It is set to be 20 times faster than KAUST’s existing system and will be the most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East, enabling its users to unlock discoveries that it could not have before, and realize new potentials for AI.

Shaheen III will be built using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer. With its design, HPE is further fueling KAUST’s AI-at-scale mission by integrating the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, an optimized software stack for model training and development.

Shaheen III will be fully operational in 2023.