Supercomputers/Systems/Aziz
Saudi Arabia · operational · hpc
Aziz
Also known as KAU Aziz
Operated by King Abdulaziz University at King Abdulaziz University Jeddah .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
- Rmax
- 211.30 TFlop/s
- Rpeak
- 228.56 TFlop/s
- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
- 92.4%
- Cores
- 11,904
- Power
- -
- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - 496 PRIMERGY CX250 and four PRIMERGY CX270 servers | Fujitsu | - | Verified | info.archives.global.fujitsutop500.org |
| CPU | - Intel Xeon E5-2695v2 12C 2.4GHz | Intel | - | Verified | info.archives.global.fujitsutop500.org |
| Interconnect | - Intel TrueScale QDR | Intel | - | Reported | top500.org |
The read
Aziz is the Fujitsu PRIMERGY cluster that King Abdulaziz University switched on on 1 June 2015 to open a Center of Excellence for climate and meteorology, engineering, nanotechnology, genomics and desalination research. Fujitsu describes 496 PRIMERGY CX250 and four CX270 servers with Xeon E5-2695v2, Xeon Phi 5110P and NVIDIA Tesla K20 parts, a 230 teraflops theoretical peak and 2 PB of disk. TOP500 lists 11,904 cores with Intel TrueScale QDR, 0.21 PFlop/s Rmax, 360th in June 2015 and 491st in November 2015.
Timeline
Public list appearances
Pointers only: rank and edition, linking to the canonical entry. We do not reproduce list tables. See sourcing policy.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-07 Added Aziz, a mid-list TOP500 system (2015-06 360)
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| info.archives.global.fujitsu | names system only | - |
| top500.org | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Latency-optimised versus throughput-optimised processors, NUMA, and the end of the host-to-device copy.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.