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Saudi Arabia Begins To Realize Supercomputer Ambitions

Posted by timothy on from the ooh-how-sheik dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Arabia is building a supercomputer that could rank among the 10 most powerful systems in the world. And the country isn't stopping there. It has plans to turn this marquee system for the Middle East into a petascale system in two years, and, beyond that, an exascale system."

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  1. spon8ge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    itself backwards, 7or membership. the facts and

  2. Enough computing power to strip a burka! by GlobalColding · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of the top scientists in charge of the Shaheen project commented anonymously by saying, "We believe we finally have enough computing power to be able to strip womens burkas in real time from live video feeds. Our upcoming reality based television show Streets of Cairo, will more than pay for the costs of this project".