KAUST's Extreme Computing Research Center Director David Keyes will chair the technical program of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC18) in Dallas. Approximately 420 professional volunteers and 160 student volunteers are engaged in the technical program. During SC17, KAUST’s supercomputer Shaheen II was recognized as the fastest in the Middle East, and it is expected to retain this title at SC18. Why it matters: KAUST's leadership role highlights the university's growing influence in global supercomputing and positions the Kingdom as a key player in HPC research and development.
KAUST participated in the Supercomputing Conference (SC17) in Denver, Colorado, with faculty, staff, and students. The university's Shaheen 2 Cray XC40 System was ranked the 20th fastest globally and the fastest in the Middle East. KAUST's IT department hosted talks featuring David Keyes, Jack Dongarra, Thierry-Laurent, Mootaz Elnozahy, and Jason Roos. Why it matters: KAUST's strong presence at SC17 highlights its commitment to advancing supercomputing capabilities in the Middle East and fostering international collaboration.
Jysoo Lee, Facilities Director of Research Computing Core Labs at KAUST, received the SCA HPC Leadership/Achievement Award at SupercomputingAsia 2022 in Singapore. The award recognizes Lee's leadership in developing South Korea's HPC community and advancing international cooperation. Lee led the legislation of the “National Supercomputing Promotion Act” and founded the National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking (NISN) in South Korea. Why it matters: This award highlights KAUST's role in attracting top global talent in HPC and showcases the increasing importance of supercomputing infrastructure in the region.
KAUST participated in SC21, the international supercomputing conference in St. Louis, Missouri, marking their 13th year of attendance. KAUST highlighted its commitment to being a supercomputing presence in the Arab world and its role in propelling research across scientific disciplines. KAUST graduates are contributing talent across the Middle East, and KAUST Computational Scientist Bilel Hadri will chair the reproducibility initiative at SC22. Why it matters: KAUST's involvement in SC21 underscores the growing importance of HPC in the Middle East and its contribution to building a knowledge-based economy.
KAUST Associate Professor Xiangliang Zhang presented her work on mining streaming and temporal data at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18) in Stockholm. Her talk, "Mining Streaming and Temporal Data: from Representation to Knowledge," summarized her research on mining data streams. Zhang directs the KAUST Machine Intelligence and kNowledge Engineering (MINE) group, which focuses on knowledge discovery from large-scale data. Why it matters: Showcases KAUST's contributions to AI research and highlights the university's growing recognition within the international AI community.
KAUST attended the SC22 high-performance computing conference with a team of 20 supercomputing experts. KAUST highlighted that HPE will build Shaheen III, KAUST's next-generation supercomputer, which will be the most powerful in the Middle East. A KAUST team was also a finalist for the 2022 Gordon Bell Prize. Why it matters: KAUST's presence at SC22 underscores its growing influence and leadership in high-performance computing within the Middle East and globally.
KAUST faculty, students, and staff participated in SC16, the international conference for high performance computing. Daniel Acevedo-Feliz, director of the Visualization Core Lab, engaged with visitors at the KAUST booth. David Keyes, director of the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center, received the Top500 certificate for the fastest supercomputer in the Middle East. Why it matters: This highlights KAUST's ongoing contributions and recognition in the field of high-performance computing within the Middle East.
KAUST Ph.D. student Amal Mohammed Alamri was a finalist in the July 2018 IEEE nanoArt Competition, part of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology in Cork, Ireland. Her work, displayed at University College Cork and Crawford/CIT Gallery, involved stacking n-type MoS2 single crystal with p-type perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3 single crystal. Alamri's IEEE Nano paper entitled "Photonic Single Crystal Heterostructures based on Perovskites/Molybdenum disulfide" was also presented at the conference. Why it matters: This highlights KAUST's contribution to nanotechnology research and its students' participation in international scientific events.