parallel computing

Extreme Computing Universals

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B9 L2 R2325

This talk redefines "extreme" computing as operating under severe resource constraints rather than just massive scale, outlining universal algorithmic, hardware, and system-level strategies to overcome these challenges, illustrated by KAUST success stories.

New cost-effective GPUs solver redesigns the computational game

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Prof. David Keyes and his team proposed a GPUs light architecture to solve systems of multiple equations involving a large amount of data. Broadly used in computer gaming, mobile, and PC graphics - GPUs allow customizing an effective result-driven support to create a computational framework for increasing the number of processors while reducing the memory required to temporarily store the data.

KAUST scientists win prestigious Gauss Award for supercomputing excellence

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KAUST Ph.D. graduate Dr. Noha Al-Harthi and doctoral student Rabab Alomairy, have won the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) Award for original research that best advances high-performance computing. This makes KAUST the first Middle Eastern institution to receive this prestigious award.

Ali Charara

Ali Charara obtained both, his MS Degree and PhD Degree from Computer Science at KAUST in 2011 and 2018 respectively. His master thesis supervisor was Alyn Rockwood and his PhD thesis supervisor was David Keyes. Ali's research interests were in High Performance Computing with a focus on parallel computing and algorithms using multicore and manycore Computer Graphics Units. Education Profile MS Degree, Computer Science, KAUST (2011) PhD Degree, Computer Science, KAUST (2018)