KAUST has achieved a historic double finalist selection for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling, recognizing two innovative research projects in collaboration with global partners that demonstrate the power of interdisciplinary teamwork in high-performance computing and climate science.
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has earned an unprecedented double finalist selection for both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize and ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling for two separate research projects exemplifying the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and global partners.
Working with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Saint Louis University and NVIDIA, KAUST researchers received a Gordon Bell Prize finalist selection for using NVIDIA graphic processing units (GPUs) to enhance genetic studies from the UK Biobank. This prestigious prize recognizes outstanding achievements in high-performance computing, particularly for science, engineering and large-scale data analytics applications.
Meanwhile, KAUST researchers, in collaboration with the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Notre Dame, Saint Louis University and NVIDIA, received a Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling finalist selection. They developed an exascale climate emulator to meet the rising computational and storage demands of high-resolution Earth System Models. This prize honors parallel computing solutions for addressing climate change.
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