Keyes Wins Second Gordon Bell Prize

David Keyes, Adjunct Professor in the APAM Department and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and the Director of the Extreme Computing Research Center at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), has received the Gordon Bell Prize for the second time.

The Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling recognizes the contributions of climate scientists and software engineers. The 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling was awarded to a 12-member team for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. The members of the team are: Sameh Abdulah, Marc G. Genton, David E. Keyes, Zubair Khalid, Hatem Ltaief, Yan Song, Greorgiy L. Stenchikov and Ying Sun (all of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Allison H. Baker (NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA); George Bosilca, (NVIDIA, USA); Qinglei Cao (St. Louis University, USA); and Stefano Castruccio (University of Notre Dame, USA).

Prof. David Keyes' first Gordon Bell Prize prize was awarded 25 years ago in cooperation with NASA for an aerodynamics application. This is also Prof. Keyes' fourth Gordon Bell nomination in the past three years.

HPCWire recognized Prof. Keyes with one of their Editor's Choice awards in "outstanding leadership." In addition to the ACM and HPCWire recognition, NVIDIA chose Prof. Keyes' two 2024 Gordon Bell finalist projects for their Supercomputing '24 video (start at 27:08).