Name: Centre for High Performance Computing 2024 National Conference
Start: 2024-12-01T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-12-04T22:20:00+02:00
Location: Boardwalk Convention Centre

1KSA - Decoding South Africa’s Biodiversity (in session "HPC Applications")

A Brief Tour of Your Data Center Future (in session "Keynote")

A chatbot LLM based access control mechanism (in session "ISSA")

A Decentralized E-voting System Using Blockchain (in session "ISSA")

A deep learning-based wind energy turbines suitability location analysis and transferability (in session "Workshop")

A multifaceted approach to the IS ecosystems implementation exploring multiple Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks (in session "Special")

A near real-time spatial monitoring and forecasting of wind energy using geospatial big data (in session "Workshop")

A new approach on a D-wave for obtaining thermodynamic properties of a solid solution. (in session "Special")

A Rapid Review Cybersecurity Strategic Analysis Framework: The Case of Higher Education Institutions (in session "ISSA")

A Secure Data-Centric Model for SMMEs Across Africa: Bringing Stakeholders Together (in session "DIRISA")

Acceleration of Electronic Structure Codes on Heterogeneous Hardware (in session "HPC Applications")

AcousNomaly: Learning to Detect Anomalies in Acoustic Telemetry Data using Machine learning and Deep Learning (in session "DIRISA")

AI next trends: the critical HW and SW marriage (Intel) (in session "HPC Technology")

AI-Native Networking for Modern Networks (in session "SA NREN")

An Emerging Leadership Paradigm for Navigating a Rapidly Changing World (in session "Special")

Applications of 4IR on the diagnosis and management of STIs among key populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review (in session "DIRISA")

Architectural Variations of Li2MnO3-Li0.69MnO2 Core-Shell Cathodes During the Cycling Process (in session "HPC Applications")

Are You Doing Science? (in session "HPC Technology")

Biometric authentication: Stress as a factor in keystroke dynamics (in session "ISSA")

Bridging the Digital Divide with Cloud-Hosted Geo-Location Spectrum Databases (in session "HPC Technology")

Building a Quantum-Ready Africa: Opportunities and Challenges (in session "Special")

Building global federated infrastructure in the R&E community (in session "Keynote")

Building NICIS’ Cloud: Localising the Cloud Platform (in session "Special")

Challenges and Opportunities of HPC in the age of AI (in session "Keynote")

Changes in Observed Internet Background Radiation Traffic in the 155/8 netblock (in session "ISSA")

Characterizing the I/O Performance of HPC Platforms Using the I/O Performance Evaluation Suite (in session "HPC Technology")

CHPC Users BoF (in session "HPC Applications")

Collaboration and Resource Sharing Among SADC Institutions: Are NRENs Supporting These Initiatives? (in session "SA NREN")

Computational challenges of running kilometer-scale Earth System Models in a developing country (in session "HPC Applications")

Computational Chemistry and Material Science Special Interest Group (SIG) (in session "HPC Applications")

Computational Insights into Wind Patterns and Albatross Mortality (in session "HPC Applications")

Computational modelling of functional materials and chemical reactivity using molecular dynamics, DFT and wave-function-based approaches (in session "HPC Applications")

Conceptual Model for taxation and regulatory governance among South African crypto asset holders (in session "ISSA")

Contextual Factors Influencing the Cybersecurity Commitment of Government Institutions in Developing Countries (in session "ISSA")

Cosmology with radio telescopes: finding a needle in the datastack (in session "HPC Applications")

Countering mobile application threats with a structured threat modelling approach (in session "ISSA")

Crafting Open Data for Open Science: Technical Innovation and Data Management in Environmental Research — The SAEON Open Data Platform (in session "DIRISA")

CSIR Welcome (in session "Keynote")

Cyber Intelligence at Scale: Risk Evaluation of DNS as Critical infrastructure (in session "Keynote")

Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration: Towards Accelerated Impact - The Role of Being a Good Ancestor (in session "Keynote")

Data base search through quantum imaging (in session "Special")

Data driven decision-making and policy for application in water and sanitation systems (in session "DIRISA")

Data sharing, fabric and effective governance in the error of big data analytics (in session "DIRISA")

Dell AI Factory (Dell) (in session "HPC Technology")

Density functional theory of thermoelectric properties of graphene (in session "HPC Applications")

Developing a Sustainable and Performant GPU Implementation of Plane-Wave DFT (in session "HPC Applications")

Different Techniques of Force-field Derivation and Setting Up Molecular Dynamics (MD) Calculations at CHPC Using DL_POLY Code (in session "Workshop")

Digital Forensic Investigation and Linguistic Analysis of Cyber-crimes: A Systematic Review (in session "ISSA")

Digital Twins for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Datacenters (HPE) (in session "HPC Technology")

DIRISA: A National Infrastructure for Research Data Management and Collaboration (in session "DIRISA")

Drug Design, Resistance and Metabolisms through CHPC (in session "HPC Applications")

DSI Welcome (in session "Keynote")

Elevating Material Simulations with Open Source – From Consumer to Contributor (in session "HPC Applications")

Empowering Data-Driven Research with AI Tools (in session "DIRISA")

Empowering Research and Education: An Introduction to TENET's Trust & Identity Services (in session "SA NREN")

Empowering Southern Africa's Researchers: Overcoming HPC Barriers with MATLAB Tools (in session "HPC Technology")

Engineering Strategies for Perovskites Materials (in session "HPC Applications")

Enhancing Forensic Readiness through an Integrated Approach to Fraud Risk Management throughout the Digital Transformation Lifecycle (in session "ISSA")

Exploiting exascale HPC for materials modelling; UK's Excalibur Project (in session "Workshop")

Exploration of future magnetic and cathode materials through computer-based simulations. (in session "HPC Applications")

Exploring the Cybersecurity-Resilience Gap: AnAnalysis of Student Attitudes and Behaviors in Higher Education (in session "ISSA")

Factors influencing Sensitive Data Protection practices in South African public schools (in session "ISSA")

Fitting Classical Forcefields Programmatically for Application in Molecular Dynamics Simulations (in session "HPC Applications")

Guidance for the Creation of Management and Cost Accounting Computerized Information Systems: Assurance of Information Integrity and Flexibility (in session "ISSA")

Guiding the adoption of Generative AI and Next Generation NLP (in session "Special")

H3C Presentation (TBC) (in session "HPC Technology")

Hands-On Practical Introduction to Quantum Computing (in session "Workshop")

High Resolution Modelling of Tropical Cyclone Characteristics using the Lengau Cluster (in session "HPC Applications")

High-Performance Packet Processing with Programmable Data Planes (in session "SA NREN")

HPC Applications Enabling Catalysis Design for Ammonia Decomposition to Produce Hydrogen (in session "HPC Applications")

HPC Ecosystems BoF (in session "HPC Technology")

HPC in all the right places – accelerating modelling workflows in metallurgical engineering applications (in session "HPC Applications")

Huawei Presentation (TBC) (in session "HPC Technology")

Image based analysis and crop prediction using smartphone. (in session "HPC Technology")

Industry Inquisition (in session "Keynote")

Infrastructure consideration for Science Engagement Information Management Systems on CHPC (in session "HPC Technology")

Intel AI in Action at the 2024 Olympics: Deployments and Benefits for your Business (in session "Keynote")

Lacking Balance? Assessing the Content and Coverage of Cyber Security Degrees (in session "ISSA")

Leveraging Hybrid Cloud, HPC and Quantum Computing Resources (in session "Special")

MaREN – Malawi Research and Education Network (in session "SA NREN")

MODELLING CLIMATE CHANCE IMPACTS ON FUTURE OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY USING GEOSPATIAL INTELLINECE (in session "Workshop")

Molecular Modelling in Research: From Basic Research Methods to Advanced Research (in session "HPC Applications")

Multiscale modelling of chemical systems on HPC and quantum computers (in session "HPC Applications")

NICIS Welcome (in session "Keynote")

NVIDIA Accelerated Computing (NVIDIA) (in session "HPC Technology")

Obtaining and Using Data for Decision Support and Innovation in Resource-Constrained Environments (in session "DIRISA")

OpenStack Adoption at CHPC: Advancing AFIS and Emerging DevOps Projects Through Scalable Cloud Solutions (in session "HPC Technology")

Overview of new local HPC course (in session "HPC Technology")

Overview of Wits HPC (in session "HPC Technology")

Pinnacle Presentation (TBC) (in session "HPC Technology")

Privacy and Legal Implications Regarding the Processing of Honeypot Data (in session "ISSA")

Profiling Prominent Ransomware Threat Actors (in session "ISSA")

Q&A (in session "HPC Technology")

Q&A (in session "DIRISA")

Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")

Q&A (in session "DIRISA")

Q&A (in session "ISSA")

Q&A (in session "HPC Technology")

Q&A (in session "ISSA")

Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")

Q&A (in session "ISSA")

Q&A (in session "Special")

Q&A (in session "HPC Technology")

Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")

Q&A (in session "HPC Technology")

Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")

Quantum Computing: a tool for simulating physical systems in photonics (in session "Special")

Questions (in session "Special")

Rational design of porphyin and BODIPY analogues for biomedical applications: further progress and future perspectives (in session "HPC Applications")

Reducing Data Movement Through Derived Quantity Generation (in session "HPC Technology")

Resource Scheduling and Allocation in HPC Cyberinfrastructure (in session "DIRISA")

SAWS Climate Services and Infrastructure (in session "DIRISA")

SIGHPC Edu (in session "HPC Technology")

Simulating Potential Impacts of Solar Radiation Modification on African Climate (in session "HPC Applications")

Smoke Signals: Analysing and Decoding Quiet Quitting and Burnout Among Cybersecurity Professionals (in session "ISSA")

Social Network Graphs in Email Forensics: Analysis of a Personal Email Dataset (in session "ISSA")

Solving a quadratic optimization problem by means of quantum computing using amplitude encoding (in session "Special")

Solving the Privacy and Security Challenge using ZKP: Its Positive Impact on the Economy (in session "ISSA")

South African Broadband Education Nertworks (SABEN) (in session "SA NREN")

Sustainable AI Infrastructure: A Mandatory Pathway for Supercomputing Centres (in session "HPC Technology")

Tackling the Challenges of Reproducibility and Data Sharing in Computational Science (in session "Keynote")

The Data Platform to Accelerate HPC Deployments (VAST Data) (in session "HPC Technology")

The Impact and Benefits of Partnering for Operational Weather Forecast Continuity (in session "HPC Applications")

The South African National Research Network (SANReN) (in session "SA NREN")

The Third Pillar of HPC (in session "Keynote")

The UK National AI Research Resource “AIRR” (in session "Special")

The way forward with Nokia (in session "SA NREN")

Training phase masks for diffractive networks / Emulating quantum computing with optical matrix multiplication (in session "Special")

Transformer-based Sense Embeddings with Deep Learning Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Disambiguation (in session "DIRISA")

Trust Requirements and Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets (in session "ISSA")

Turbomachinery Modelling on the CHPC (in session "HPC Applications")

Ubuntunet Alliance – For Research & Education Networking (in session "SA NREN")

Unravelling plant-biotic/abiotic stress using computational biology and bioinformatics tools. (in session "HPC Applications")

Using artificial intelligence techniques to standardize intelligent and automated generation of digital forensic reports. (in session "ISSA")

Welcome (in session "Keynote")

Welcome and Introduction (in session "HPC Technology")

Windows Subsystem for Linux with GPU support for molecular dynamics simulations (in session "Workshop")

Women in HPC BoF (in session "HPC Applications")

® I/O Insights and Recommendations for All (in session "HPC Technology")

® Onboarding new first time HPC users (in session "HPC Technology")

® SIGHPC Committee (in session "HPC Technology")

® XIO: Towards eXplainable I/O using multi-layer monitoring solution for HPC Systems. (in session "HPC Technology")