Centre for High Performance Computing 2022 National Conference

from Wednesday, 30 November 2022 (08:00) to Friday, 2 December 2022 (21:00)
CSIR ICC

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Nov 2022
1 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
08:30
Keynote - Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC) (until 09:05) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
08:30 Opening - Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
08:35 DSI Opening Address - Mr Imraan Patel (DSI)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
08:50 NICIS Welcoming Address - Dr Happy Sithole (NICIS)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
09:05
Keynote - Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC) (until 10:00) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
09:05 KEYNOTE: Maximize Possibilities for HPC and AI - Dr Jean-Laurent Philippe (Intel)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
10:00 --- Intermission ---
10:15
Data Centre Optimisation - Conveners: Dr Andile Ngcaba Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC) (until 11:15) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:15 Cost Optimization for High Performance Computing and Research (Capex to Opex Conversion) - Dr Andile Ngcaba (Convergence Partners Investments)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:45 To be Confirmed - Speaker TBC   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Kingsley Obodo (University of South Africa) (until 11:15) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15 Molecular simulations for material optimization - Prof. Paola Carbone (The University of Manchester)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:45 CHPC's biotech industry support - From luxury to necessity - Dr Hamilton Ganesan (inqaba biotec)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15
HPC - Chair: Dr Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 11:15) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:15 AutoX: Towards new tools and infrastructure for seamless reproducibility of Computational Research - Dr Hakizumwami Birali Runesha (University of Chicago)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:45 A movement to highlight the importance of research software and the people who develop it - Ms Anelda Van der Walt (Talarify) Nomalungelo Maphanga (Talarify)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
11:15 --- Break ---
11:45
Data Centre Optimisation -Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC) Conveners: Dr Andile Ngcaba (until 12:45) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:45 To be Confirmed - Speaker TBC   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:15 To be Confirmed - Mr Lawrence Pratt (CSIR)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:45
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Quinn Reynolds (Mintek) (until 12:45) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
11:45 Climate modelling and seasonal climate forecasting at CSIR sing the CHPC cluster - Dr Njabulo Siyakatshana (CSIR)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
12:15 Uncovering new possibilities in Engineering with High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Mr Charl Maré (Cauchy Consult (Pty) Ltd.)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
11:45
HPC - Chair: Dr Hakizumwami Birali Runesha (University of Chicago) (until 12:45) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
11:45 Computational Science for Graduate level training - Prof. Clement Onime (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:15 Mentoring Past Imposter Syndrome to Expand the HPC Workforce - Dr Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Keynote - Chair: Dr Anwar Vahed (until 10:00) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
09:00 KEYNOTE: Workflows for Science: How Workflows Need to Adapt to Modern Application Needs - Prof. Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
10:00 --- Intermission ---
10:15
BoF - Convener: Dr Werner Janse Van Rensburg (CHPC) (until 11:15) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15 CHPC Users Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) - Dr Werner Janse Van Rensburg (CHPC)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15
DIRISA - Chair: Mr Sthembiso Mkhwanazi (CSIR) (until 11:25) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:15 African Open Science Platform - Towards a continental Open Science Vision - Tshiamo Motshegwa (University Of Botswana)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:35 A Data-Driven Prototype for Animal Grading Systems - Kassim Mwitondi (Sheffield Hallam University)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:55 MQFIP: Towards a Digital Forensic Investigation Process of a Compromised MySQL Database - Taurai Hungwe (Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:15 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:15
HPC - Chair: Dr Paul Calleja (Cambridge University) (until 11:15) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:15 Intel in HPC - Mr Ahmed Aljeshi (Intel Corporation)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:45 High Performance Computing & AI at HPE and convergence of workloads - Mr Olivier Blondel   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
11:15 --- Break ---
11:15 --- Break ---
11:25 --- Short Break ---
11:45
BoF - Convener: Prof Khomotso Maenetja (University of Limpopo) (until 12:45) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
11:45 Women in HPC Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) - Prof. Khomotso Maenetja (University of Limpopo)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
11:45
DIRISA - Chair: Mr Sthembiso Mkhwanazi (CSIR) (until 13:00) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:45 Addressing privacy issues in data sharing. - More Chinakidzwa (Higher Colleges of Technology)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:05 Renewable Energy Optimisation - Prof. Richard Millham (Durban University of Technology)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:25 Cyber Physical Systems Security Using CPS-IoT Surveillance - Bigomokero Antoine Bagula (University of the Western Cape)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:45 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:45
HPC - Chair: Dr Oz Parchment (University of Cambridge) (until 13:00) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
11:45 Seeking the balance between power consumption and performance - Mr Kris Buggenhout (Dell Technologies)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:05 The Path To Zero Emissions Computing - Mr Rick Koopman (Lenovo)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:25 NVIDIA Cloud Native Computing - Mr Yossi Avni (Nvidia)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:45 Q&A   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Keynote - Chair: Mr Zuki Makalima (SANReN) (until 10:00) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
09:00 KEYNOTE: Exploring the integration of 4IR technologies in the classroom for the advancement of STEM education - Prof. Sune Von Solms (University of Johannesburg)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
10:00 --- Intermission ---
10:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Thobani Gambu (University of Cape Town) (until 11:30) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15 Density functional studies of protonated and alkali metal (Li, Na and K) incorporated T-doped 2D zeolite model (T= B, Ga) - Prof. Nithaya Chetty (TBC)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:35 HPC and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics at MUT - Dr Madison Lasich (Mangosuthu University of Technology)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:55 Application of high-performance computing at the Council for Geoscience - Dr Emmanuel Sakala (Council for Geoscience)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
11:15 Q&A   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
10:15
HPC - Convener: Dr Samuel Mabakane (CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING) (until 11:30) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:15 HPC Visualisation Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) - Dr Samuel Mabakane (CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
10:15
SA NREN - Chair: Prof Renier van Heerden (SANReN, CSIR) (until 11:30) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:15 Vela Shumane (Masters)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:25 Tebogo Sebake (PhD)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:35 James Jena (Postdoc)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:45 Francois Swanepoel (Honours)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
10:55 Vuyani Chipunza (Final Year Engineering)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:05 Sisipho Dlakiya (Masters)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:15 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
11:30 --- Break ---
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:45
HPC Applications - Chair: Prof Paola Carbone (The University of Manchester) (until 14:45) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
13:45 The use of Cheminformatics in understanding the molecular mechanisms of South African Phytochemicals in the treatment of metabolic diseases - Dr Pritika Ramharack (South African Medical Research Council)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
14:15 Simulation of mesoscale convective systems with the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model on the CHPC - Mrs Patience Mulovhedzi (South African Weather Service)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
13:45
HPC - Chair: Prof Clement Onime (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)) (until 14:45) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
13:45 Computing Infrastructure at the South Africa Radio Astronomy Observatory: Past, Present and Future - Mr Jeremy Main (SARAO / SKA South Africa)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:15 SAGE: A National Cyberinfrastructure for AI@Edge Computing - Dr Pete Beckman (ANL)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:45 --- Break ---
15:15
Keynote - Conveners: Mr Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research) Mr Dan Olds (Intersect360 Research) (until 16:45) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
15:15 HPC Market Overview and SC22 Reactions - Mr Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
15:45 Analyst Crossfire - Mr Dan Olds (Intersect360 Research) Mr Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
16:45 --- Intermission ---
17:00 --- Cocktail Dinner & Student Showcase ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
13:45
DIRISA - Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria) (until 14:55) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
13:45 SAEON’s Research Data Infrastructures - Dr Mary-Jane Bopape (South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON))   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:05 Error Correction Based Deep Neural Networks for Modeling and Predicting South African Wildlife–Vehicle Collision Data - Irene Nandutu (Rhodes University - South Africa)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:25 Information Custodians or Detectives? The Future Role of Libraries in an Age Dominated by Automation and Artificial Intelligence-based Research - Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:45 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
13:45
HPC Applications - Chair: Prof Cornie van Sittert (North-West University) (until 14:45) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
13:45 Evaluating the mycobacterial proteostasis system as a drug target in tuberculosis - Prof. Adrienne Edkins (Rhodes University)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
14:15 Computational Modelling using high performance computing for materials prediction and design - Kingsley Obodo (University of South Africa)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
13:45
HPC - Convener: Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC) (until 14:45) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
13:45 HPC Education Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) - Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:45 --- Break ---
14:45 --- Break ---
14:55 --- Short Break ---
15:15
DIRISA - Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria) (until 16:05) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
15:15 Building a dynamic cybersecurity capability in healthcare software services - Lawrence` Nyakasoka   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
15:40 A Citizen-Centric Open Data Portal for Rural Digital Users - Nobert Jere (Walter Sisulu University)   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
15:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Madison Lasich (Mangosuthu University of Technology) (until 16:15) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
15:15 Heat Transfer in Greenhouses - Dr Sunita Kruger (University of Johannesburg)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
15:45 Using AI to perceive humans - Prof. Dustin van der Haar (University of Johanensburg)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
15:15
HPC - Convener: Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC) (until 16:15) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
15:15 HPC Ecosystems Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) - Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
16:15 --- Intermission ---
16:30
Keynote - Chair: Ms Dorah Thobye (Staff) (until 17:30) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
16:30 KEYNOTE: Evolving past Exascale - Ms Trish Damkroger (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)   (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
17:30
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (NICIS) (until 19:30) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:00
HPC Applications - Chair: Prof Hasani Chauke (University of Limpopo) (until 13:00) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
12:00 Application of computational genomics in poultry and ruminant health improvement - Prof. Matthew A. Adeleke (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
12:30 Exploiting a Tripartite Alliance of Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Machine Learning for Computer-Aided Catalyst Discovery - Dr Adedapo Adeyinka (University of Johannesburg)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
12:00
HPC - Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories) (until 13:00) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:00 The Data Deluge: Overcoming the Barriers to Extreme Scale Science - Dr Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory )   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:30 Time to Revisit Erasure Codes in Data-intensive Clusters - Shadi Ibrahim (Inria)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
12:00
SA NREN - Chair: Prof Renier van Heerden (SANReN, CSIR) (until 13:10) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:00 Johnny (Jia-Cong) Hou   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:10 Luke Borcjes   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:20 Khomotso Ngoepe and Tshegofatso Senona   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:30 Oluwasogo Moses Olaifa   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:40 Simran Rathilal   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
12:50 Rani Araf   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
13:00 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 --- Lunch (and optional software training meeting) ---
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:00
HPC Applications - Chair: Prof Adrienne Edkins (Rhodes University) (until 15:00) (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
14:00 Investigating chaos through computing: Condensates, plasma, astronomy, biology and beyond - Dr Malcolm Hillebrand (Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Group, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
14:30 Understanding the catalytic activity of molybdenum carbide surfaces: what we can learn from surface-mobility of reaction intermediates - Dr Thobani Gambu (University of Cape Town)   (ICC-L-Amethyst - Amethyst Room)
14:00
HPC - Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories) (until 15:00) (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:00 The role of storage target allocation in applications’ I/O performance with BeeGFS - a medium-sized cluster experience - Dr Luan Teylo (Inria) Dr Francieli Boito (University of Bordeaux, Inria)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:30 Open Source Program Offices in Research Universities - Carlos Maltzahn (UC Santa Cruz)   (ICC-G-Emerald - Emerald Auditorium)
14:00
SA NREN - Chair: Prof Renier van Heerden (SANReN, CSIR) (until 15:00) (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:00 Daniel Scragg   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:10 Malefu Motuba   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:20 Idani Mulaudzi   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:30 Peace Azugo   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:40 Sheunesu Makura   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
14:50 Q&A   (ICC-U-Crystal+Garnet - Crystal+Garnet Room)
15:00
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC) (until 15:30) (ICC-G-DIAMOND - Diamond Auditorium)
15:30 --- Farewell refreshments ---