The special section offers a snapshot of the region's momentum, featuring a diverse set of contributions that blend technical rigor with societal impact.

Despite promising advancements, the Arab region faces several challenges that are slowing down the adoption of digital twins.

Smash achieves full placement flexibility, fast storage operations, fast recovery from node dynamics, and lower DRAM cost compared to existing hash-based solutions.

Smash provides full placement flexibility in assigning data to any machine while reducing memory overhead costs compared to current approaches used in practice.

"We owe it to an increasingly digitally dependent society to make its digital infrastructure as resilient, reliable, and safe as possible."