Shaheen is the name of a series of supercomputers owned and operated by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
[1] The most recent model, Shaheen III, is the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East.
[2] It was originally built at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and moved to KAUST in mid-2009.
The computer was created by Majid Alghaslan while he was working for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
As per the regulations[8] a restriction had to be made to deny nationals of Syria, Iran, Sudan, Cuba, and North Korea from access to the supercomputer.