KAUST — Shaheen III Supercomputer

KAUST’s Shaheen III supercomputer, ranked among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers at launch in 2024, is powered by HPE Cray EX hardware and uses AMD EPYC processors alongside NVIDIA GPUs. Shaheen III delivers approximately 44.5 petaFLOPS of peak performance and is the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer. KAUST uses Shaheen III for AI research in materials discovery, genomics, climate modeling, Arabic natural language processing, and computational fluid dynamics. The computer supports KAUST’s role as a primary research institution for Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 AI strategy. KAUST also provides compute access to Saudi universities and research centers, positioning it as a shared academic AI infrastructure for the Kingdom. The facility is located on a 36-square-kilometer campus on the Red Sea coast.