ICON acceleration | Afif Boudaoud

Role: Acknowledged contributor
Methods: OpenACC, code optimization, climate modeling
Award: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3712285.3771789" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

ICON Weather Model Acceleration (Gordon Bell Prize work)

Code optimizations accelerating the ICON weather model by up to 1.51× vs. the optimized OpenACC version.

Part of the work that won the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.