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11/22/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 11/22/2024 12:20
Gordon Bell Climate Prize Goes to KAUST Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator
KAUST researchers are this year's winners of the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling. Credit: SC24
November 22, 2024
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The 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling has been awarded to a team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, who used the Frontier supercomputer to develop an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.
Team members also include researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Notre Dame, NVIDIA, Saint Louis University and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
The winners of the climate prize, awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery, were announced on Nov. 21 at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in Atlanta, Georgia.
Recipients of the 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling include (left to right) Georgiy Stenchikov (KAUST), Stefano Castruccio (University of Notre Dame), David Keyes, Marc Genton, Sameh Abdulah, Hatem Ltaief (KAUST), George Bosilca (NVIDIA), Zubair Khalid (LUMS), Yan Song (KAUST), and Qinglei Cao (SLU). Credit: SC24
"This is a tremendous honor and we are extremely proud of our achievement," said Marc Genton, Al-Khawarizmi distinguished professor of statistics at KAUST. "We believe this emulator will significantly enhance our ability to understand climate events much better at the local level as well as on the global scale."
Read more about the project here.