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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. Search for the hidden peace message by jarek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obviously, Saudi Arabia are feeling the pressure and have decided to use super-computer to find the peaceful verses in the quran, just to prove the so called islamists wrong. I wish them success.

  2. Considering the state of Saudi Arabia... by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Would it not be better to send them SkyNet, a few hundred T-800 Endoskeletons? You know, the kind with the plasma cannons that shoot at anything that moves?