Nour Abouel Nadar
Cloud Business Director, Brightskies
Ahmed M. Rashad
Principal HPC & Infrastructure Engineer, Brightskies
Abstract
AutoHPC is a private cloud software platform for HPC and AI environments, whether on-premise, in the cloud, or hybrid. It deploys, integrates, manages, monitors, bills, and monetizes these environments. AutoHPC addresses three challenges organizations face at scale: complex operations across hundreds or thousands of nodes, strict security and compliance requirements, and expensive compute capacity that sits idle instead of generating revenue. A centralized dashboard, accessed through the organization's single sign-on, gives full control of the cluster. The platform integrates natively with the NVIDIA stack, including Base Command Manager, GPU workload orchestration, and real-time GPU monitoring. Each tenant receives isolated compute, storage, and network resources, with role- based access control and an audit trail for compliance reporting. A built-in billing engine turns the cluster into a revenue-generating cluster-as-a-service, supporting external invoicing, internal chargeback, prepaid credits, and dynamic pricing, with usage limits and contract terms enforced automatically. Its API-first design fits existing infrastructure without disruption. AutoHPC also enables NeoCloud capabilities: Model as a Service hosts AI models on- premise and exposes them through metered API tokens or a built-in chatbot playground, keeping data in-house. Cloud bursting to AWS adds capacity during demand peaks, while power monitoring tracks energy use at the rack, node, VM, pod, and job level.
Biographies
is Cloud Business Director at Brightskies and Product Owner of AutoHPC. She brings 12 years of experience in HPC and cloud, and as an HPC Cloud Solutions Architect, she has led HPC projects with institutions across the region, including MBZUAI, KAUST, SDAIA, and Khalifa University. AutoHPC draws on a decade of hands-on supercomputing work to tackle the real challenges organizations face in running HPC at scale. She holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from AAST and dual bachelor's degrees in Software Engineering (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) and Computer Engineering (AAST, Egypt). She also holds multiple certifications in AI, solutions architecture, and Linux administration. Outside work, she's a mother of two and a padel enthusiast
is a Principal HPC & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Kubernetes (K8s), Linux, GPU clusters, and cloud infrastructure. I have over five years of experience designing, operating, and automating large-scale HPC environments, including GPU-accelerated clusters with more than 1,000 servers. My work spans Slurm, high-performance storage, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and enterprise HPC operations
Seats are limited
Tutorials run on Monday, 26 October 2026 at KAUST. Attendance is free, but registration is required.