The Technion’s new supercomputer is the most powerful computing cluster ever deployed for civilian use in Israel. The “Tamnun” (Hebrew for octopus) is an SGI Infiniband Cluster, consisting of 1260 processor cores, with 96 GB of RAM memory per node. Nerds like me just sigh.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/supercomputing-tentacles-of-the-octopus-embrace-the-technion/