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EVENTS
17
November
Igniting the Future: Empowering Underrepresented Young Talent in HPC and AI
Moderator,
David Keyes, KAUST
7.30 pm
Monday, November 17, 2025

David Keyes
Panelist

Rabab Alomairy (MIT)

Lisa Gaedke (KAUST)
18
November
Real-Time, Extreme-Scale Bayesian Inference with Application to a Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning
Omar Ghattas, University of Texas
3.05pm
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Omar Ghattas
19
November
Flying Sustainably into the Future: HPC–AI Convergence with Shaheen III
Saber Feki, KAUST Research Computing Core Lab Director
11.30am
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Saber Feki
19
November
High Performance Computing: Where We Are Today And A Look Into The Future
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
3.05pm
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Jack Dongarra
19
November
Accelerated Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Modeling for Multivariate Gaussian Processes
Authors: Lisa Gaedke-Merzhäuser (KAUST), Vincent Maillou (ETH Zurich), Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda (KAUST), Olaf Schenk (USI), Mathieu Luisier (ETH Zurich), Paula Moraga (KAUST), Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas (ETH Zurich), Håvard Rue (KAUST).
10:52am - 11:14am CST
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Location: Room 261-262-265-266
19
November
Caracal: A GPU-Resident Sparse LU Solver with Lightweight Fine-Grained Scheduling
Authors : Jie Ren (KAUST), Tingxuan Zhong (KAUST), Yuxi Hong (U Indiana), Guofeng Feng (CAS), Xincheng Wang (Xidian U), Weile Jia (CAS), Hatem Ltaief (KAUST), and David Keyes (KAUST).
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
4:14pm - 4:36pm CST
Location Room 260-267
19
November
System and Software Testing for Post-Exascale HPC: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderators K. Teranishi (ORNL), J. Young (GaTech)
Panelists K. Pedretti (SNL), B. Hadri (KAUST), S. Pophale (ORNL), I. Laguna (LLNL)
1:30pm - 3:00pm CST
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Location Room 240-241-242
17
November
Hatem Ltaief (KAUST) : Invited talk AI4S: 6th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Application
Monday, 17 November 2025
9:00am - 10:00am CST
Location : Room 274
17
November
Twelfth Workshop on Accelerator Programming and Directives (WACCPD 2025)
Session Chairs: Andreas Herten (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), Rabab Alomairy (MIT, KAUST), Jorge Luis Galvez Vallejo (Australian National University)
Monday, 17 November 2025
9:00am - 5.30pm CST.
Location : Room 266
21
November
Third International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2025)
Organizers: Verónica G. Melesse Vergara(ORNL), Bilel Hadri (KAUST) Vasileios Karakasis(Nvidia), Nick Hagerty (ORNL), Andreas Herten (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
Friday, 21 November 2025
9:00am - 12.30pm CST.
Location: Room 276
18
November
Mixed Feelings About Mixed Precisions
Authors H. Anzt (TUM), H. Bayraktar (NVIDIA), N. Malaya (AMD), P. Luszczek (MIT), and H. Ltaief(KAUST)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025 12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
Location Room 263-264
18
November
Democratizing AI Accelerators for HPC Applications: Challenges, Success, and Support
Authors M. Emani (ANL), S. Raskar (PNNL), T. Ben-Nun (LLNL), B. Van Essen (LLNL), S.Shanmugavelu (Groq), and H. Ltaief (KAUST)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025 5:15pm - 6:45pm CST
Location Room 275
19
November
Navigating Complexity: Achieving Performance Portability in the Evolving Landscape of Accelerated HPC Systems
Authors A. Ruhela (TACC), D. Martin (Northwestern University), S. Christgau (ZIB), C. Hughes (SNL), D. Keyes (KAUST), N. Kumar (Intel), and H. Ltaief (KAUST)
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
Location Room 130
20
November
Julia For HPC
Session Leader Mose Giordano UCL
Additional Session Leaders Rabab Alomairy (MIT, KAUST) William Godoy (ORNL), Johannes Blaschke (ESnet,LBNL) Pedro Valero-Lara (ORNL) Pengfei Ding (ESnet,LBNL)
Thursday, 20 November 2025
12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
Location Room 131
16
November
Julia for HPC
Presenters : William Godoy (ORNL), Johannes P Blaschke (LBNL, NERSC) Mosè Giordano, (UCL) Rabab Alomairy (MIT), KAUST), Philip Fackler (ORNL) Alan Edelman (MIT) Raye Kimmerer (Princeton University)
Sunday, 16 November 2025
1:30pm - 5:00pm CST
Location: Room 125
18
November
Research and ACM SRC Poster
Scalable Execution Framework for R on Manycore Systems
Authors: Xiran Zhang(KAUST), Javier Conejero(BSC),Sameh Abdulah(KAUST), Jorge Ejarque (BSC), Ying Sun (KAUST), Rosa M. Badia(BSC),David E. Keyes (KAUST), Marc G. Genton (KAUST)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
8:00am - 5:00pm CST
Location: Second Floor Atrium

Ali I. Bo Khamseen

Badr Misha

Bilel Hadri

Mohamed Bouaziz

David Keyes

George Turkiyyah

Hatem ltaief

Saber Feki

Lisa Gaedke

Mariana Zapparoli

Mohsin Shaikh

Mohammad Rafi Sultan Ikbal

Rabab Alomairy

Samar Aseeri

Sameh Abdulah

Saverio Pasqualoni

Turki- Almejhed

Yuxi Hong
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