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KAUST at

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
November 16 - 21, 2025
St. louis, MO

Booth #4024

Shaheen III Supercomputer

The Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer

EVENTS

  • Booth Panel
  • Booth Presentations
  • Papers 
  • Panel 
  • Workshops
  • BoFs
  • Tutorials
  • Poster
  • KAUST Participants
Booth Panel

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)

Booth Presentations


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

Papers 


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  


Panel 


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 



Workshops


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 


BoFs


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 


Tutorials


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 


Poster


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 


KAUST Participants

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

SUPERCOMPUTING

SUCCESS

What an institution does with its processing power is the real story behind supercomputing, and KAUST is proud of its achievements in this field. Read more about our supercomputing success.

David Keyes received the TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award

Dr. Rabab Alomairy wins IEEE Early Career Award

35 HPC Legends David Keyes

35 HPC Legends Jysoo Lee

KAUST earns “Nobel” of HPC for climate modeling

Centers of Excellence

KAUST Launches Four Pioneering Centers of Excellence to Address Key National and International Priorities

Generative AI

Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies

Smart Health

Sustainable Food Security

KAUST CORE LABS

KAUST CORE LABS

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