Conveners
HPC Technology: 1
- Chair: Mr Faheem Essack ()
HPC Technology: 2
- Chair: Mr Hannes Steyn ()
HPC Technology: CHPC Cloud
- Chair: Ms Dorah Thobye (Staff)
HPC Technology: Education BoF
- Chair: Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC)
HPC Technology: Storage & IO
- Kevin Colville (CHPC)
- Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories)
HPC Technology
- Chair: Dr Oz Parchment (University of Cambridge)
HPC Technology: HPC Ecosystems BoF
- Chair: Mr Bryan Johnston (CHPC)
In this session we'll walk through the rapid evolution of the AI workloads, and learn key insights on how next gen Hardware and Software will look like.
The VAST Data Platform accelerates HPC by delivering the performance and scale of parallel file systems with the simplicity of NAS, all at archive economics. Powered by VAST’s DASE architecture, our customers build scale-out systems delivering TB/s and millions of IOPS of performance without the rigidity and overhead of legacy architectures.
NVIDIA’s Accelerated Computing Platform is designed to accelerate various workloads, including AI, HPC, Professional Visualisation & Gaming. The platform provides faster performance, increased productivity, improved accuracy, and cost savings for organizations across industries.
NVIDIA’s Accelerated Computing Platform is designed to accelerate various workloads, including:
- Artificial...
Affordable and widespread broadband access is essential for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) cantered on connectivity. This presentation highlights efforts to close the digital gap in South Africa’s underserved rural and township communities through innovative use of a CSIR-developed, Geo-Location Spectrum Database technology, hosted by the Centre for High...
The 2019 White Paper on Science, Technology, and Innovation in South Africa
emphasises the core themes of inclusivity, transformation, and partnerships. Following
the introductory discussion with the farmers, it became clear that the majority of them have
an urgent need for up-to-date soil-health data and assistance with managing their crops
in order to maximize their profits. Addressing...
OpenStack is a cloud computing platform utilized by the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) to manage a wide range of software services. Its user-friendly interface enables the creation, scaling, and management of virtual machines with minimal effort, offering a flexible and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. The Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS), is a...
The Science Engagement Information Management Systems (SEIMS) is a digitalisation initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI)’s Science Engagement (SE) Programme in collaboration with the CSIR-NGEI and other stakeholders. The SE programme has the main objective of creating a society that is scientifically literate towards socio-economic emancipation. SEIMS consists of a number...
Learning from scientific simulations often relies not on the raw quantities calculated, but instead from derived values. For example, air pressures in a weather simulation in isolation are not as interesting as the air pressure gradient. If the gradients are roughly parallel, you have straight-line winds. If the gradient is rotating around a point, it is a cyclone storm. Other uses, such as...
The I/O Performance Evaluation Suite (IOPS), currently under development by the TADaaM team at INRIA Bordeaux, aims to streamline the performance analysis of I/O systems on HPC platforms. The primary objective of this tool is to automate the performance evaluation process, initially determining the optimal combination of parameters (such as the number of nodes, processes, file sizes, and...
The complexity of the HPC I/O stack combined with gaps in the state-of-the-art profiling tools creates a barrier that does not help end-users and scientific application developers solve the I/O performance problems they encounter. To bridge this gap, we introduce Dristhi, a multi-source interactive analysis framework that empowers users to visualize I/O traces, identify bottlenecks, and gain a...
Modern HPC workloads exchange vast amounts of data to drive scientific discoveries While HPC systems employ diverse storage devices and tiers to support efficient data access, current monitoring infrastructures, such as Darshan and Score-P, only provide enough information to show what they see, but lack the visibility needed to fully explain observed I/O performance.
In this talk, I will...
As scientific data gets bigger and its analyses involves increasingly complex algorithms, access to High Performance Computing (HPC) resources in the form of multi-core CPUs and GPUs become essential for scientific research.
One main impediment to harnessing these resources remains the high barrier to entry – HPC systems often require a deep understanding of computing architecture and...
As artificial intelligence drives more and more innovation in industry and science with the emergence of Large-Language Models (LLMs), the demand for such computing resources is growing substantially. This development poses major challenges for supercomputing centres around the world, as they need to provide state-of-the-art AI resources while meeting their sustainability goals and...
This session is an opportunity for members of the HPC Ecosystems Community and those that identify as associates / affiliates to convene in-person. The session will allow for members to discuss matters relating to HPC Ecosystems Project as well as broader African HPC and emerging HPC community topics. The 90-minute session will include 60-minutes of prepared talks from members of the...
High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems play a pivotal role in modern scientific research, enabling complex simulations, data analysis, and large-scale modelling across disciplines such as climate science, genomics, physics, and engineering. As these systems grow in scale and sophistication, the efficient scheduling and allocation of computational resources become crucial for ensuring optimal...
This talk aims to unpack the rising trend of converging technologies in the HPC, Cloud & AI disciplines of emerging hi-tech. At first the speaker will bring to the audiences attention not only the opportunity for new, technology-driven industrial development, but will argue for the business imperative of adopting, expanding and developing internal capabilities around these technologies....
