Agenda
DAY 1: Tuesday- September 27, 2022
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Opening Ceremony | |
| 9:00 | The National Anthem of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | |
| 9:03 | Quran | |
| 9:05 | Organizing Committee Speech by Dean of Computer Science and Information Technology College | Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Almuhaideb, Dean, CCSIT, IAU |
| 9:10 | Opening Speech by his Excellency President of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) | Prof. Abdullah M. Alrubaish, President, IAU |
| 9:20 | Sponsors Honoring | |
| 9:30 | Exhibition Official Opening + Coffee Break + Networking | |
First Session
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Time |
Title | Speaker |
| 10:00-12:00 | Plenary Session 1: Role of HPC in Medical Research | Session Chair: Dr. Sumayh Aljameel Chair of Computer Science Dept, IAU. |
| 10:00 | Keynote: HPC & AI with Intel in the New Era of Supercomputing | Dr. Jean-Laurent Philippe HPC Director, Intel |
| 10:30 | Application of Artificial Intelligence in Cytogenetics | Yahya Bokhari Associate Research Scientist, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC). |
| 10:40 | The current status of the biomedical/biological research in term of HPC usage and presence | Mohammed S. Alarawi Research Specialist, Comparative Genomics and Genetics, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). |
| 10:50 | Genomics Optimization And Scalability | Zeeshan Kamal Siddiqi HPC & AI Technical Team, Lenovo |
| 11:00 | Increasing diagnostic rate in Clinical Genomics variant interpretation using AZIZ supercomputer | Dr. Nofe Ateq Alganmi Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University |
| 11:10 | Discussion-1 | All session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 11:30 | Panel Discussion: High Performance Computing in Healthcare | Session Chair: Dr. Khalid Adnan Alissa Dean of ICT at IAU |
| Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University, USA | ||
| Prof. Mohammed Alshahrani Director General, King Fahad Hospital of the university-Khober-Saudi Arabia | ||
| Dr. Saber Feki Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST | ||
| Prof. Rashid Mehmood Director of Research, Training, and Consultancy, HPC Center, King Abdulaziz University | ||
| Eng. Ahmed Al-Jeshi Board member of the Annual Saudi HPC/AI Conference | ||
| Eng. Saeed Zahrani IT consultant at Saudi Aramco EXPEC Computer Center (ECC). | ||
| 10:00-12:30 | Poster Showcase+ Hackathon (parallel sessions) | |
| 10:00-12:00 | Hackathon program [The ideation and mentoring session] (parallel session online) | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break | |
Second Session
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 12:30 – 3:00 | Plenary Session 2: HPC in AI, Big Data | Session Chair: Dina Abdullah Alabbad Chair of Computer Information Systems Dept, IAU. |
| 12:30 | Keynote: High Performance Computing and artificial intelligence in medical physics applications | Dr. Othmane Bouhali Director of Research Computing and Research Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar. |
| 12:45 | Cambridge Open ZettaScale Lab – Future AI, Simulation and DA Systems by Co-Design | Paul Calleja The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery, UK |
| 1:00 | Road to Exascale | Andrew Grant Global VP, Strategic HPC Projects, ATOS |
| 1:10 | Addressing the Exascale storage challenge | Sven Breuner Field CTO, VAST Data |
| 1:20 | Leveraging High Performance Computing for Big Data Processing | Badr Badghaish Geophysicist IV, Saudi Aramco |
| 1:30 | Data Analytics & AI in HPC | Paul Brook (online) EMEA Director, Data Centric Workloads Specialists, Dell |
| 1:40 | Discussion-II | The first 5 speakers will join (online/in-person) and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 2:00 | Leveraging DAOS Storage System for Seismic Data Storage and Manipulation | Merna Moawad Senior Software Engineer, BrightSkies Technologies |
| Data Analytics & AI in HPC | Paul Brook (online) EMEA Director, Data Centric Workloads Specialists, Dell | |
| 2:10 | Hybridized ‘HPC – Ensemble ML’ Towards Making Data Speak More Clearly: A Unique Paradigms Union as panacea for Improved Medical Research & Solutions | Sunday Olusanya Olatunji (Aadam) Associate Professor in in Artificial Intelligence at IAU |
| 2:20 | Challenges of Exascale and beyond | Bruno LECOINTE VP Group Business support HPC AI Quantum at ATOS |
| 2:30 | Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Reservoir Simulation HPC Environment | Alanood Alrassan Petroleum Engineer System Analyst, Saudi Aramco |
| 2:40 | Discussion-III | All last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 3:00 | Lunch Break | |
DAY 2: Wednesday- September 28, 2022
First Session
| Time | Talk | Speaker Name |
| 9:00-12:00 | Plenary Session 3: HPC Cyber Security and Cloud Computing | Session Chair: Dr. Mustafa Youldash |
| Certified Trainer and University Ambassador | Deep Learning Institute | NVIDIA, | ||
| Assistant professor, IAU | ||
| 9:00 | Keynote: Extreme-Scale Environmental Statistics | David E Keyes |
| Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science | ||
| Director, Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST | ||
| 9:30 | Keynote: High-Performance Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science on Modern HPC Systems | Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, |
| Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University, USA | ||
| 10:00 | Cloud-native HPC use case | Walid Shaari, |
| Cloud Architect, Saudi Aramco | ||
| Nora Alwadaah, | ||
| HPC Specialist, Saudi Aramco | ||
| 10:10 | Smartization of Societies: High-Performance Ingredients and Examples | Prof. Rashid Mehmood |
| Director of Research, Training, and Consultancy HPC Center, King Abdulaziz University | ||
| 10:20 | Discussion-IV | The first 4-5 speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 10:40 | Networking + Exhibition + Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | HPC Cybersecurity benchmark | Muneera M. Almuhaidib |
| Computer Operating System Specialist, Saudi Aramco | ||
| 11:00 | ||
| 11:10 | How to improve Biomedical Analytics while reducing Carbon Footprint | Rick Koopman |
| EMEA Technical Lead HPC, Lenovo | ||
| 11:20 | Accelerating Intelligent Infrastructure for a Changing World | Dipl. Eng. THIERS Laurent, Vice President, DDN |
| 11:30 | Coding in the Entanglement Domain | Naya Nagy, Assistant professor, IAU |
| 11:40 | Discussion-V | The last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 9:00-11:30 | Poster Showcase+ Hackathon (parallel sessions) | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Hackathon program [presentations for the top 10 teams] (parallel session online) | |
| 11:50-12:30 | Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break | |
Second Session
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 12:30-2:00 | Plenary Session 4: Emerging Technologies and HPC centers, facilities, and applications | Session Chair: Dr. May Issa Aldossary |
| Assistant Professor, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, CCSIT, IAU. | ||
| 12:30 | Keynote: Research Computing @ NYUAD | Muataz Al Barwani |
| Senior Director, Center for Research Computing, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. | ||
| 12:45 | Keynote: HPC and AI services and applications at KAUST | Dr. Jysoo Lee |
| Director KAUST | ||
| 1:00 | Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING | Edmondo Orlotti |
| AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ||
| 1:10 | SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE EXASCALE COMPUTING | Edmondo Orlotti |
| AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ||
| 1:20 | Simulation Runtime Optimization via Auto-Tuning of Numerical Tolerances | Obai Alnajjar |
| Petroleum Engineering System Analyst, Saudi Aramco | ||
| SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE EXASCALE COMPUTING | Edmondo Orlotti | |
| AI Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ||
| 1:30 | Accelerating your HPC journey | Mohamad Jaghoub |
| Senior Field Application Engineer for AMD META, AMD | ||
| 1:40 | Discussion-VI | The first 5 speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
| 1:55 | Accelerating your HPC journey | Mohamad Jaghoub |
| Senior Field Application Engineer for AMD META, AMD | ||
| 2:05 | Multi-dimensional HPC: A deep-dive into the Convergence of HPC and AI | Balamurugan Ramassamy |
| Director HPC APAC & GCC Countries, Altair | ||
| 2:15 | Aziz HPC Centre | Dr. Rayan Mosli |
| HPC Center Deputy Director for Technical and Administrative Affairs at King Abdulaziz University | ||
| 2:25 | HPC system and applications at KFUPM | Dr. Afaque Shams |
| Associate Professor at KFUPM | ||
| 2:35 | Taking Medical AI from Research to Clinical Production with HPC | Dr. Mustafa Youldash |
| Certified Trainer and University Ambassador | Deep Learning Institute | NVIDIA, | ||
| Assistant professor, IAU | ||
| 2:45 | Discussion-VII | The last 4 session speakers will join and session chair will moderate the discussion |
Closing Session
| 3:00 | Poster and Hackathon Winners Announcements |
| 3:15 | Honoring Participants and Organizers |
| 3:30 | Closing remarks |
| 3:40 | Group photo + Lunch Break |
Day-3: Thursday- September 29, 2022 (Parallel Workshops)
Time |
Technical Workshops, Session Chair: Dr.Rami M Mohammad, Associate Professor, IAU |
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Workshop 1 |
Workshop 2 |
Workshop 3 |
Workshop 4 (online) |
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9-11 |
Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-1),By: 1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 4-Rooh Khurram, Staff Scientist, KAUST | DPC++ Training Workshop (part-1), By: Amr Mohamed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies | Enabling and democratizing MLops in Healthcare, By: Solution Architect, Lenovo | Power, Application Efficiency and Challenges for a HPC Vendor, By: 1-Jim Hearnden, Enterprise Technologist Data Centre Power & Cooling EMEA, DELL, 2- Martin Hilgeman HPC application specialist, Dell |
11-12 |
(continued) Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-1),By:1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST 2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST | (continued) DPC++ Training Workshop (part-1), By: Amr Mohaemed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies |
Workshop 5Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Workshop (part-I), By: Andrea Carboni, AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
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12:00-12:30 |
Dhohr Prayer + Coffee Break | |||
12:30-1:45 |
(continued) Data Science on HPC platforms – (part-2), By: 1-Saber Feki, Sr. Computational Scientist Lead, KAUST 2-Mohsin Shaikh, Computational Scientist, KAUST 3- Didier Barradas Bautista, Staff Scientist, KAUST 4-Rooh Khurram, Staff Scientist, KAUST | (continued) DPC++ Training Workshop (part-2), By: Amr Mohaemed Nasreldin Elsayed, HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies | (continued) Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Workshop (part-2), By: Andrea Carboni, AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | |
2:00 |
Lunch Break | |||