IXPUG First Middle East Conference 2018 at KAUST

The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group meets in the Middle East for the first time 23-25 April 2018 at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) on the shores of Red Sea. IXPUG-ME invites participants to share their experiences on manycore platforms while exploring a new hemisphere of opportunity, where Intel multicore is well established with 6 Top 500 Intel systems in Saudi Arabia, alone.

Powered by Shaheen, a Cray XC40 that entered at #7 in June 2015, more than one-third of the faculty at KAUST employ high performance computing as a primary means of scientific discovery and engineering design. Saudi Aramco, the world’s most valuable company by assets, has set three major benchmarks on Shaheen in 2017, including: (1) a production 100Hz seismic inversion, (2) a trillion-cell simulation of the world’s largest petroleum reservoir, and (3) a 200,000-core simulation of a gas-oil separation plant.

As the Gulf states transform themselves from petroleum-based economies to mixed service and information-based economies, high performance computing will be essential beyond energy simulations.

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