Otro supercomputador se añade a la lista del TOP500, este en el puesto 16. Podéis leerlo en el artículo Arabia Saudí irrumpe en los primeros puestos de la lista de superordenadores.
El ordenador se llama Shaheen y parte de 16-rack IBM Blue Gene/P System equipado con 4 gigabytes de memoria por nodo y una computabilidad de 222 teraflop. Sus especificaciones son:
- High-performance storage and networking subsystems to support the capability of Shaheen.
- A storage subsystem composed of multiple storage building blocks providing a total of 1.9 Petabytes (one quadrillion bytes) of raw capacity and an aggregate bandwidth of 16 Gbps.
- A 128 Linux node x86 Cluster will be provided as auxiliary computational resource for pre- and post-processing as well as initial x86 code tests prior to their enablement on Shaheen.
- A high-speed internal network subsystem.
- A high-capacity archiving subsystem to assure data resiliency and system backup.
- More than 65,500 independent processing cores, tightly coupled in a three-dimensional network.
- A next-generation data center that has the scalability to achieve exascale computing requirements.
