Performance optimization

Rabab Alomairy becomes the University’s first Saudi female faculty member in computer science

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After earning her M.S. and Ph.D. at KAUST and conducting postdoctoral research at MIT, Rabab Alomairy returns to the University as its first Saudi faculty member in Computer Science, where she will establish the Tuwaiq Intelligent Computing Lab.

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Our Masked Guest Speakers Series

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Every week, we have a masked guest speaker opening our HiCMA weekly meeting by giving a remote talk on broad topics related to numerical linear algebra, high performance computing, programming models and performance optimizations. Our motto is fun and science!

Designing Tomorrow's Algorithms on Today's Architectures: a Case Study with Stencil Computations Using AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology

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Regular stencil computations constitute the main core kernel in many temporally explicit approaches for structured grid finite-difference, finite-volume, and finite-element discretizations of partial differential equation conservation laws. For various blocking dimensions, the Spatial Blocking (SB) approach enables data reuse within multiple cache levels. However, the straightforward generalization of SB to manycore architectures, with each core owning an exclusive share of cache may leave performance on the table. The next two figures show the typical 25-point 3D star stencil used in seismic

Rabab Alomairy

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
KAUST Ibn Rushd Assistent Professor Rabab Alomairy advances high-performance computing and AI research.

Hatem Ltaief

Principal Research Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Hatem Ltaief is a Principal Research Scientist at KAUST. He works on mixed-precision algorithms and performance optimizations to help HPC scientific applications address the exascale challenges. His innovations have been recognized with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize (shared) for Climate Modeling in 2024.