Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) has celebrated the 10th anniversary of High Performance Computing (HPC) at the Texas A&M Engineering Building in Education City.
Eyad Masad, executive associate dean at TAMUQ, said: “Texas A&M at Qatar is proudly celebrating its third generation of computing clusters as we celebrate 10 years of HPC with great milestones, with more than 2mn calculation jobs, more than 20mn CPU hours execution time and more than 100 scientists and researchers across the country using the HPC resources and benefiting from the research computing skills of Texas A&M at Qatar experts.
“We thank our partners and collaborators across Qatar who have shared in the development of HPC expertise and the Qatar National Research Fund, which supports this project that will expand the boundaries of Qatar’s growth and meet the challenges of its engineering and scientific communities.”
Othmane Bouhali, research associate professor, director of research computing and director of advanced scientific computing at Texas A&M at Qatar, said on the importance of HPC and its important role in achieving Qatar’s national research strategy: “HPC plays an inevitable role in the nation’s research strategy. The Qatar National Research Strategy has included HPC and computational science as one of its major achievement goals to enable more complex problems to be tackled and to carry out more extensive and realistic simulations.
“With the commitment Texas A&M at Qatar has made for contribution to the development of Qatar, the branch campus has acted proactively and established dedicated programmes to promote HPC in the country. It started in 2005 with the acquisition of the first HPC computer cluster, Qatar’s first.
“The branch campus has also helped us create a specialised group of advanced scientific computing experts, TASC, which houses the high-performance computing facilities at the university and is a multi-disciplinary group that brings together faculty and researchers to address critical and complex computational challenges.”
The event featured speakers from partners such as QCRI and QEERI, who talked about their experience with this
infrastructure.
Dr Ahmed Elmagarmid, executive director of QCRI, said: “We are grateful to Texas A&M at Qatar for the leadership role they have played and continues to play in HPC within and outside Qatar Foundation. Given the ever-growing reliance on computation-driven research, QCRI looks forward to working in strong partnership with the university to advance such research in order to address Qatar’s national priorities.”