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November 12–17, 2023
KAUST wins HPCWire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
KAUST was awarded the HPCWire Readers’ Choice for best HPC Response to Societal Plight. The National Center for Meteorology of Saudi Arabia (NCMSA) led a team comprised of scientists from KAUST and other intuitions to develop and implement a weather prediction system that handles both precipitation and dust storms. In one case, the system gave one-day advanced warning with highly detailed accuracy, providing time to prepare and reduce fatalities.
KAUST was also awarded the HPCWire Editors’ Choice for Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences. A KAUST team has found through simulations that installing solar panels along the Arabian Red Sea coastal area could warm the land, intensify sea breezes, and generate an additional 1.5 gigatons of rainwater annually‚ enough to provide water for up to 5 million people.
KAUST ranked the Middle East’s Most Powerful supercomputer by Top500 Committee
TOP500, the definitive voice of supercomputer statistics, has today confirmed that KAUST operates the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer, Shaheen III.
Built by the world’s leading supercomputer provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Shaheen III is about six times faster than KAUST’s existing Shaheen II system, with its processing power exceeding 500,000 MacBook Pros operating in concert. Based on HPE’s Cray EX design, which also powers three of the world’s Top 10 systems, Shaheen III is architected to support unprecedented performance and scale.
Scaling the “Memory Wall” for Multi-Dimensional Seismic Processing with Algebraic Compression on Cerebras CS-2 Systems
ACM Gordon Bell Finalists Presentations 2
Time : Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 4.30 PM - 5:00 PM MST
Location : 501-502
David Keyes, Hatem Ltaief, Yuxi Hong, Leighton Wilson, Mathias Jacquelin, Matteo Ravasi
High-Performance SVD Partial Spectrum Computation
Time : Thursday, 16 November 2023, 11am - 11:30am MST
Location : 401-402
David Keyes
Hatem Ltaief
Yuji Nakatsukasa
Dalal Sukkari
GPU-Accelerated Dense Covariance Matrix Generation for Spatial Statistics Applications
Time : Tuesday, 14 November 2023 8:30am - 5pm MST
Location : DEF Concourse
Zipei Geng
Sameh Abdulah
Hatem Ltaief
Ying Sun
Marc Genton
David Keyes
Monday 13th, 8pm
KAUST Booth with panelists
Moderator
David Keyes
Director, Extreme Computing Research Center,
Senior Associate to the President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Panelist
Trish Damkroger
HPE Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President, HPC, AI & Labs
Panelist
John Josephakis
Nvidia Global VP of Sales and Business Development for HPC/Supercomputing
Panelist
Brent Gorda
AMD Senior Director Business development for HPC and public sector AI
Tuesday 14th, 10:05 am
David Keyes
Director, Extreme Computing Research Center,
Senior Associate to the President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Tuesday 14th, 3:05 pm
Jack Dongarra
Director, Innovative Computing Laboratory
Wednesday 16th, 10:05 am
Satoshi Matsuoka
Director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Prof. Tokyo Tech. ACM/ISC/JSSST/IPSJ Fellows
Wednesday 15th, 3:05 pm
HPC / AI Services at KAUST & Shaheen III
Jysoo Lee
Facility Director at KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab
Speakers
Hatem Ltaief
Piotr Luszczek
Hartwig Anzt
Harun Bayraktar
Mixed Feelings About Mixed Precisions
Time : Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 12:15pm - 1:15pm MST
Location : 702
Christine Harvey
Hatem Ltaief
Lois Curfman McInnes
Michela Taufer
Meeting HPC Community Needs: How SIGHPC, TCPP, and SIAG-SC Join Efforts to Engage Communities and Deliver Services
Time : Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 12:15pm - 1:15pm MST
Location : 710
Sameh Abdulah
Didem Unat
Ebru Bozda
Auroop Ganguly
HPC System Test: Looking ahead to Post-Exascale Systems and HPC Ecosystems
Time : Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 5:15pm - 6:45pm MST
Location : 708
Authors / Organizers
Verónica G. Melesse Vergara
Bilel Hadri
Vasileios Karakasis
First International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2023)
Time : Friday, 17 November 2023 8:30am - 12pm MST
Location : 503-504
Marcin Rogowski
Lisandro Dalcin
David Keyes
Jeff R. Hammond
shmem4py: High-Performance One-Sided Communication for Python Applications SessionThe 6th Annual Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives to MPI+X (PAW-ATM)
Time : Monday, 13 November 2023 11:42am - 12:06pm MST
Location : C1-2-3702
Mohsin Ahmed Shaikh
Saber Feki
Nasr Hussain
Islam Elmas
Kubeflow-as-a-Service on HPC clusters – First Experiences Session5th International Workshop on Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC (CANOPIE-HPC)
Time : Monday, 13 November 2023 9:40am - 9:45am MST
Location : 607
KAUST Contributors
Aurelie Arsouze
Badr A. Mesha
Bilel Hadri
David Keyes
George M. Turkiyyah
Jysoo Lee
Hatem Ltaief
Lisandro Dalcin
Maciej L. Olchowik
Marc Genton
Marcin Rogowski
Mariana Lopez Serena
Matteo Ravasi
Mohammed Al Farhan
Mohsin Ahmed Shaikh
Mootaz Elnozahy
Saber Feki
Samar A. Aseeri
Yuxi Hong
Ying Sun
Zipei Geng
Sameh Abdulah
Tongzhou Gu
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The Top 500 List ranks Shaheen II in the top 100 of the world’s fastest supercomputers (June 2022). Ranking is a potent indicator of capability, but it’s not the only factor. What an institution does with its processing power is the real story behind the numbers. KAUST is proud of its achievements. Thanks to Shaheen II, our faculty are able to make breakthrough discoveries and analyses in record time. This information is not only impacting knowledge transfer in academia, it’s also making a powerful difference in the way that our partners in private and government sectors do business. Read on to learn how.
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