supercomputing

Useful Bitcoin Mining with a Matrix-based Puzzle

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are increasingly gaining adoption since the introduction of Bitcoin, being distributed, authority-free, and secure. Proof of Work (PoW) is at the heart of blockchain’s security, asset generation, and maintenance. In most cryptocurrencies, and mainly Bitcoin, the “work” a miner must do is to solve a cryptographic puzzle: to find a random nonce that once (cryptographically) SHA-256 hashed with a perspective block header, returns a 32 Bytes number having a leading pre-defined number of zeros (called difficulty). This puzzle represents the PoW, and lives

Fifth KAUST-NVIDIA Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs

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The KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory is co-organizing with NVIDIA, a leader in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, a full-day workshop on accelerating scientific applications using GPUs on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 in the auditorium between buildings 4 and 5.

Device accelerated solvers for PDEs. Current status and future perspectives

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In the next months, KAUST expects to place into service Shaheen-3, a supercomputer with a GPU partition whose planned 1 Exaflop/s HPL AI capability would rank it in the Top 6 globally if delivered today.

Taking computing to the next level

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KAUST’s new supercomputer will enable ground-breaking scientific modeling and analysis in Saudi Arabia and worldwide.

CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries

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The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.

New Data Mining approach makes recurring patterns easier to be spotted

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The ultimate answer is ScaleMine, cost-effective and agile scalable parallel frequent subgraph mining in a single large graph. Panagiotis Kalnis, Professor of Computer Science (CS), and the team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC), under the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division signed this novel approach.

KAUST gets ready for SC18

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For the past 10 years, KAUST has made a strong presence at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) that takes place in different cities around the U.S. every year. 2018 will mark a special year for KAUST at SC, which will take place in Dallas, Texas, in November, with around 13,000 supercomputing professionals in attendance. The University will have an engaging presence on the exhibition floor and in the seminars, and the technical program of SC18 will be chaired by the Director of the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)

Next generation algorithm advances machine learning of powerful supercomputers

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A multi-disciplinary team of international researchers from KAUST and Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) in collaboration with U.S. supercomputer company Cray Inc. successfully implemented a new algorithm to efficiently harness the computational power of the fastest supercomputers in the world. "Software integration is ultimately the icing on the cake for advanced computational projects. Thanks to Cray's support, our algorithms are now deployed on all Cray supercomputers, including KAUST's Shaheen II supercomputer, as well as half of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world

Putting the sense in materials

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An interdisciplinary initiative is helping KAUST be at the forefront of a digital revolution, where sensors can find a use just about anywhere.

KAUST Professor David Keyes to chair International Supercomputing Conference 2020

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David Keyes, KAUST professor of applied mathematics and computational science; director of the University's Extreme Computing Research Center; and senior associate to the President of KAUST, will chair the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2020. He will be the first program chair from a Middle Eastern institution, as announced by ISC 2020.

West Africa warms but airborne dust keeps the Red Sea cool

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World-class computing facilities at KAUST enable researchers to tackle complex questions in climate science and oceanography.

Measuring solar stores of the Arabian Peninsula

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Mapping variations in sunlight across the Arabian Peninsula reveals a bright future for solar energy in the region.

Shaheen II open to serve COVID-19 research around the Kingdom

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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed challenges across the globe that need to be solved using scientific discovery and innovation. In line with that, the KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory (KSL) has opened a call for proposals that require its supercomputer Shaheen II, as well as other cluster computing resources, to support research projects.

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.

Mixing precision for model acceleration

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A mixed-precision approach for modeling large geospatial datasets can achieve benchmark accuracy with a fraction of the computational run time.

KAUST presents exascale expertise at SC21

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Supercomputing experts from KAUST converged with global participants at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri from November 14 to 19 for SC21, the annual international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. Established in 1988, the SC conference is the largest HPC event of its kind, with big name industries like Intel, Red Hat and Oracle sharing the exhibition floor alongside universities, government agencies and small businesses, and professionals from various affiliations attending presentations throughout the convention center. In non
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Panagiotis Kalnis

Professor, Computer Science
Professor Panos Kalnis is a leading researcher in big data, cloud computing, parallel and distributed systems and computing privacy for data mining and bioinformatics.