A Saudi supercomputer enters the list of the ten most powerful computers in the world

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">ArabiaWeather.com- Saudi Arabia achieved a world record with the “Shaheen 2” computer located at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. .</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The &quot;Top 500&quot; organization, which monitors high-performance machines around the world, and issues a report to classify them every six months, stated that the &quot;Shaheen 2&quot; computer is capable of processing 5,536 petaflops.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">A petaflop is defined as a unit of computing speed equal to one with 15 zeros of floating point operations per second. It is equal to about a thousand million million arithmetic operations per second, and man needs to complete this huge amount of arithmetic operations for more than 32,000 years.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Chinese “Tianhe 2” supercomputer ranks first in the world, topping the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Saudi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology spent about $80 million to purchase, install and operate Shaheen 2.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Shaheen 2 computer uses 200,000 processors arranged in more than 6,000 nodes, and has a whopping 17.6 petabytes of storage space and 790 terabytes of main memory.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The industrial partners of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, better known as KAUST, plan to use the computer to help improve their search for minerals, fossil fuels, and processing of raw materials.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Shaheen 2 is currently being used by modeling research projects in engines, atmospheric dynamics, and renewable energy networks.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>See more:</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/شاهد-ماذا-يحدث-عند-وضع-زجاجة-ماء-مغلقة-الميكرويف"><strong>Watch what happens when you put a sealed water bottle in the microwave</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/تجربة-مثيرة-تجيب-عن-أيهما-أقوى-الماء-أم-النار؟"><strong>Confrontation between water and fire .. Watch the result!</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/ما-سر-الالوان-الجميلة-التي-نراها-اثناء-الالعاب-النارية؟"><strong>What is the secret of the beautiful colors that we see during fireworks?</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>