KAUST Selects HPE to Build the Middle East’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

29 September, 2022

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s Shaheen III will accelerate scientific discovery and enable AI-at-scale through advanced modeling, simulation, analytics and neural network training capabilities Shaheen III will help advance insights in areas including clean combustion, Red Sea ecosystems, climate events and the Arabian tectonic plate.

 

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – September 26, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) selected HPE to build its next-generation supercomputer, Shaheen III, to deliver state-of-the-art supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for advancing research in fields such as food, water, energy and the environment.

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 to solving the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems.

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