Saudi HPC/AI Conference 2022:

Using HPC & AI to accelerate and improve medical research (September 27-29, 2022)

Agenda


DAY 1 TUESDAY – SEPTEMBER 27 , 2022
Time Title Speaker
8:30 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 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


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 at 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 The 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)
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
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 Title Speaker
09:00 - 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 Extreme-Scale Environmental Statistics David E Keyes
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Director, Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST
9:30 High-Performance Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science on Modern HPC Systems Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda
The Ohio State University, USA
10:00 Cloud-native HPC use case Walid Shaari
Cloud Architect, Saudi Aramco

Nora Alwadaah
Cloud Architect, 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. AlmuhaidibComputer Operating System Specialist, Saudi Aramco
11:10 How to improve Biomedical Analytics while reducing Carbon Footprint Rick KoopmanEMEA Technical Lead HPC, Lenovo
11:20 Accelerating Intelligent Infrastructure for a Changing World Dipl. Eng. THIERS LaurentVice 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
09:00 - 11:30 Poster Showcase (parallel session)
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 AldossaryAssistant 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
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 YouldashDr. 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)
Technical Workshops, Session Chair: Dr.Rami M Mohammad, Associate Professor, IAU
Time Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5
9 - 11 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
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/AMD
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
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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
4-Rooh Khurram
Staff Scientist, KAUST
(Continued) DPC++ Training Workshop (Part-1)
By: Amr Mohaemed Nasreldin Elsayed
HPC software engineer, Brightskies technologies
Cray AI Development Software Environment for HPE SUPERCOMPUTING Workshop (Part-I), By: Andrea Carboni
AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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-I), By: Andrea Carboni
AI Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2:00 Lunch Break