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ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

KAUST wins the “Nobel” of high-performance computing for climate modeling

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KAUST has been awarded the “Nobel" prize of high-performance computing—the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling—in partnership with the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, U.S. and other partner institutions.

Turning your desktop to a Supercomputer with ExaGeoStatR

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Turning your desktop to a Supercomputer with ExaGeoStatR Download at https://github.com/ecrc/exageostatR. Remember the old times where you had to leave your R simulations running for the whole night on your desktop due to a large climate/weather dataset? ExaGeoStatR combines the user productivity of R with high performance computing linear algebra software libraries to deliver supercomputing-style environment right below your desk. ExaGeoStatR enables computing the maximum likelihood using large environmental datasets on R, while extracting performance from the underlying hardware resources

Esmail Abdul Fattah

Ph.D., Statistics

HPC

Introduction I am currently serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST, where I have the privilege of working under the leadership of the center's director, Professor David Keyes. My research journey here is further enriched by the close collaboration and guidance I receive from Dr. Hatem Ltaief, whose expertise significantly contributes to my professional growth and research endeavors in this dynamic field. My academic journey led me to earn a Ph.D. in Statistics under the mentorship of Professor Håvard Rue, working within his esteemed research