A super computer at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal has been listed as the seventh most powerful computer in the world.
Named Shaheen II, the Cray XC40 computer is the first in the Middle East to make the top 10 of the Top 500 organization that monitors high-performance machines. Tianhe-2, in China, maintained its position at No. 1 on the list.
According to a Top 500 press release, "Shaheen II achieved 5.536 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, making it the highest-ranked Middle East system in the 22-year history of the list and the first to crack the Top 10."
A detailed analysis of the list was revealed on Monday 2015 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Here is the complete top 10 listing:
,- National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China
- DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
- DOE/NNSA/LLNL, United States
- RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Japan
- DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Switzerland
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas, United States
- Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ), Germany
- DOE/NNSA/LLNL, United States
View the full rankings here .