Doha: A new research centre at Texas A&M-Qatar aims to become a regional and global leader in scientific computing by developing innovative solutions and using state-of-the-art computational tools to address computational challenges in science, engineering and industry.
The Advanced Scientific Computing Center brings together faculty and researchers from a wide variety of engineering and science disciplines to tackle complex computational problems, and has been designated an official centre of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) by the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System.
“This is a proud day for Texas A&M at Qatar,” said Dr César O Malavé, Dean of Texas A&M at Qatar. “We are dedicated to contributing to the success of Qatar’s scientific and technical communities, its educators, its scientists and its researchers, and most of all to enriching Qatar’s greatest natural resource — its people. This centre has come about because of the hard work of our research computing staff and today we celebrate their success.”
Dr Othmane Bouhali, research associate professor of physics and director of research computing at Texas A&M at Qatar, will act as centre director. This is the second Texas A&M at Qatar research initiative to be named a TEES center after the TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center was officially established in fall 2014. TEES is an engineering research agency of the State of Texas (USA) and a member of the A&M System.
The TEES Advanced Scientific Computing Center is a partnership between the Texas A&M at Qatar, Texas A&M’s main campus in College Station, Texas (USA), and TEES. Areas of interest for the center are high-performance computing, computational material sciences and chemistry, computational physics and biology and 3-D scientific visualization.
