Jeddah Governor launches new supercomputing system at KAU
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A new supercomputing system under the name of 'Aziz' was launched Monday by Jeddah Governor Prince Mishaal bin Majed.
Held at King Faisal Convention Centre, the inauguration was attended by Professor Abdurrahman Alyoubi, acting KAU president, Akira Kabemoto, senior executive vice president and head of service platform business at Fujitsu, Professor Abdul Fattah Mashat, KAU vice president for development, in addition to a crowd of KAU faculty and students and senior Fujitsu executives.
At the outset of the inaugural ceremony, Professor Mashat gave an introductory speech, in which he said that the program had started three years earlier in tune with a strategic plan to boost KAU research and to empower faculty and students.
“At KAU … we deliver a global standard in research resources that supports the public and private sectors in the Kingdom. We also focus on developing our ICT solutions that allows over 160,000 students to flourish at KAU. As a consequence, our investment in Fujitsu’s HPC technology helped KAU deliver on its responsibilities by providing a reliable solution for students, academics and researches, who can leverage our new Center of Excellence and the technical support it will provide,” he also added.
“This will be a big shift in research work for KAU and for the whole country. This has huge capability of almost 12,000 cores, eight PB storage and 600 compute nodes,” he further added
The new system will significantly boost research capabilities in meteorology and climate modeling, engineering, nanotechnology, aeronautics, genomic research, real-time vision, bioinformatics, water desalination, and industry-specific numerical simulations in the Kingdom, and will support many researchers and scientists affiliated with KAU.
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