Selected news coverage, interviews, community announcements, and outreach featuring my research and collaborative projects. Translated and syndicated versions are linked alongside the corresponding stories.
September 11, 2026 — High-Performance Statistical Computing Community Hub: Online Seminar Series. IASC–ISI · Community announcement.
April 2026 — High-Performance Statistical Computing: Why the Future of Statistics Is Parallel. ASA StatTrak.
March 8, 2026 — Highlighting Scalable Statistical Innovations at SIAM PP26. KAUST Bayesian Computational Statistics and Modeling.
January 3, 2026 — IndySCC 25: Team FAUltier’s recap of SC25. NHR@FAU · Climate emulator software uptake.
December 14, 2025 — KAUST researchers define the emerging field of high-performance statistical computing (HPSC). KAUST.
December 12, 2025 — Peking University Team Shines Bright at the SC25 Student Cluster Competition. Peking University · Climate emulator software uptake.
August 2025 — Statistical Computing Adapts Methods to Align with Modern High-Performance Computing Platforms. QuantumZeitgeist.
July 29, 2025 — SC25 SCC/IndySCC Webinar: Exascale Climate Emulator. SC25 · Recorded webinar.
December 26, 2024 — An interview with NSF NCAR’s Dr. Allison H. Baker, a member of the winning team for the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling. NSF NCAR / CISL.
December 20, 2024 — “Alps” Powers a Prize-Winning Ultra-High Resolution Global Climate Emulator. Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
November 27, 2024 — LUMS Faculty Becomes First Pakistani to Win the “Nobel” of High-Performance Computing – the Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modelling. LUMS · Winning team coverage.
November 26, 2024 — Notre Dame Professor Castruccio wins world’s highest prize for high performance computing. University of Notre Dame.
November 24, 2024 — KAUST wins the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling (Arabic). Saudi Press Agency.
November 22, 2024 — NSF NCAR researcher part of team that wins the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling. NSF NCAR / CISL.
November 22, 2024 — KAUST Researchers Win ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Breakthrough in Climate Modeling. KAUST Sustainability.
November 22, 2024 — Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling Goes to Team for Exascale Emulator Breakthrough. HPCwire · ACM announcement.
November 21, 2024 — ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize. insideHPC · ACM announcement.
November 2024 — KAUST wins prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for innovation in climate modelling. KAUST.
November 2024 — Gordon Bell Climate Prize goes to KAUST, Frontier users’ exascale climate emulator. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Also available: EurekAlert!.
November 2024 — Gordon Bell Climate Prize coverage. Newswise.
November 2024 — KAUST awarded Gordon Bell Prize. Middle East AI News.
November 2024 — 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. American Statistical Association community.
October 31, 2024 — ORNL Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize. HPCwire · ORNL report.
September 4, 2024 — Researchers benchmark Nvidia’s GH200 supercomputing chips. HPCwire.
August 1, 2024 — KAUST researchers earn dual Bell finalist selections. KAUST.
July 29, 2024 — Castruccio part of KAUST team selected as Gordon Bell Prize finalists in climate modelling. University of Notre Dame.
July 23, 2024 — KAUST team selected as ACM Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modelling finalists. KAUST.
March 13, 2023 — Where to Learn About AI for Climate Science. NVIDIA.
March 6, 2023 — A little competition improves statistics. KAUST. Also available: Phys.org.
November 27, 2022 — KAUST supercomputing expertise shines at SC22. KAUST. Also available: Arabic edition.
November 10, 2022 — Gordon Bell Prize Finalists Develop Method for More Efficient Computing. HLRS.
October 16, 2022 — A predictive eye on the prize. KAUST.
September 7, 2022 — Inside the Gordon Bell Prize Finalist Projects. HPCwire.
August 23, 2022 — A model for millions of locations. KAUST.
August 12, 2022 — SC22 Unveils ACM Gordon Bell Prize Finalists. HPCwire.
June 27, 2022 — Mixed precision: An approach to accelerating computations (Arabic). Asharq Al-Awsat.
May 19, 2022 — What’s New in HPC Research: Air Pollution Prediction, nOS-V, cuHARM, Quantum Ray Tracing & More. HPCwire.
January 19, 2022 — Competition sheds light on approximation methods for large spatial datasets. KAUST / EurekAlert!.
August 2021 — Trio of tuning tools for modeling large spatial datasets. KAUST Discovery. Also available: Phys.org.
July 28, 2021 — KAUST Leverages Mixed Precision for Geospatial Data. HPCwire.
July 2021 — Mixing precision for model acceleration. KAUST / Tech Xplore.
March 17, 2021 — GTC 21: Top 5 High-Performance Computing Technical Sessions. NVIDIA Developer.
September 7, 2020 — Turning your desktop to a Supercomputer with ExaGeoStatR. KAUST.
April 14, 2020 — Mixing It Up: Saudi Researchers Accelerate Environmental Models with Mixed Precision. NVIDIA. Also available: Korean edition.
February 24, 2020 — Pop stats for big geodata. KAUST.
December 6, 2019 — What’s New in HPC Research: Natural Gas, Precision Agriculture, Neural Networks, and More. HPCwire.
October 2017 — Cutting datasets down to size. KAUST Discovery. Also available: Phys.org.