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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">SSS member Marc Genton (EPFL Stat PhD 1996) and his team of researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, along with other partner
institutions, have been awarded the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/awards.acm.org/bell-climate__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47y2mNFYaN$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://awards.acm.org/bell-climate__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47y2mNFYaN$">
2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The team used the Frontier supercomputer (and 4 more, including Alps supercomputer in Switzerland) to develop an exascale climate emulator (space-time stochastic model that
mimics climate simulations) with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More details can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/news/kaust-wins-prestigious-gordon-bell-prize-for-innovation-in-climate-modelling" title="https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/news/kaust-wins-prestigious-gordon-bell-prize-for-innovation-in-climate-modelling">https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/news/kaust-wins-prestigious-gordon-bell-prize-for-innovation-in-climate-modelling</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.olcf.ornl.gov/2024/11/22/gordon-bell-climate-prize-goes-to-kaust-frontier-users-exascale-climate-emulator/__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47yzLzXdqn$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2024/11/22/gordon-bell-climate-prize-goes-to-kaust-frontier-users-exascale-climate-emulator/__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47yzLz">https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2024/11/22/gordon-bell-climate-prize-goes-to-kaust-frontier-users-exascale-climate-emulator/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Paper: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/arxiv.org/pdf/2408.04440__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47y8_ORo0Q$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.04440__;!!Nmw4Hv0!0A22aUYZwkgC27dnCIAtG_wtYU-eDR7K-E_GgXI3MlAeyqJP2ixlA-BLoHbjwG4XNjrnHqvkKPx-jrvfbTuvnnhvAh47y8_ORo0Q$">arxiv.org/pdf/2408.04440</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Marc G. Genton, Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Statistics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">King Abdullah University of Science and Technology</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="http://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/stsds"><span style="color:#0563C1">stsds.kaust.edu.sa</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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