(AI) and machine learning (ML) for materials discovery while speeding up the process beyond conventional trial-and-error techniques. (in session "HPC Applications")
A conceptual model of factors to improve cybercrime investigation. (in session "ISSA")
A first principle study of thermoelectric properties of some chalcogenides materials (in session "HPC Applications")
A Holistic Cyber Security Readiness Assessment Tool for Organisations in Developing Countries (in session "ISSA")
A Qualitative Review of Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Biometrics in Decentralized Identity Systems (in session "ISSA")
A Trust Framework for Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets (in session "ISSA")
A use case for integration of Earth Observations and AI in NWP modelling (in session "HPC Applications")
AASTU HPC-BDA Center: Advancing Cyber-Infrastructure for Data-to-Decision Transformation in Africa (in session "HPC Technology")
Active Memory Architecture, Early Design (in session "Keynote")
Active-learning driven chemical space exploration and relative binding affinity estimation of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro inhibitors using FEP+ (in session "HPC Applications")
Adaptive-Delta ADWIN for Real-Time Intrusion Detection in Evolving Network Streams (in session "ISSA")
Advancing South Africa’s Research Data Ecosystem: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Collaboration. (in session "DIRISA")
Agentic AI and the Future of Discovery (in session "Keynote")
AI-Assisted Optimization of Large-Scale Climate Data Transfers in South African Research Infrastructure (in session "DIRISA")
AI: Custom chatbot to build a RAG part 2 (in session "Workshop")
Aligning cybersecurity education with industry needs: Bridging South Africa’s skills development (in session "ISSA")
Assessing Students’ Knowledge of Cybersecurity at a Public South African University (in session "ISSA")
Beyond Performance: Building a Multi-Tenant HPC Centre of Excellence with VAST (in session "HPC Technology")
BoF: CHPC Users (in session "HPC Applications")
BoF: HPC Ecosystems Project (in session "HPC Technology")
BoF: HPC Education (in session "HPC Technology")
BoF: Women in HPC “Advancement through the professional staircase” (in session "HPC Applications")
Bridging Sectors And Empowering Progress | Integrating Compute, Data, and Community for Innovation (in session "Keynote")
Building Trust for Research: Federations, and the Blueprint Architecture. (in session "SA NREN")
Catalysing Data Centre Investment for Africa’s High-Performance Computing and Climate Action through the Digital Investment Facility (DIF) (in session "DIRISA")
CCAM Heavy Rainfall Simulations: Sensitivity to Initialization Datasets (in session "HPC Applications")
CerebRAN: A Dynamic Behavioural Dataset for Ransomware Detection (in session "ISSA")
Challenges With Implementing FAIR Data Standards (in session "HPC Technology")
ChemShell: defects in energy materials by hybrid QM/MM approach (in session "HPC Applications")
Classical and Quantum Computational Complexity of the Ramsey Number Problem (in session "Special")
Cloud based urban planning decision support (in session "HPC Technology")
Co-design and federation of computing services for AI and simulation (in session "HPC Technology")
COMPARISON OF QUANTUM ALGORITHMS FOR QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION (in session "Special")
Computational chemistry methods to understand the role of intermolecular interactions in the properties of materials (in session "HPC Applications")
Computational Model for Identifying Sepitori in Multilingual Texts (in session "DIRISA")
Converting complex unitary matrices to quantum circuits using game trees (in session "Special")
Correlating Memory, Persistent, and Runtime Evidence in Redis (in session "ISSA")
Creating a Sovereign Cloud Platform for South Africa (in session "Special")
CSIR Welcome (in session "Keynote")
Curbing Non-Revenue Water Through A Dynamic Hydraulic Modeling & Smart Water Network Management System (in session "HPC Technology")
Digital Leadership in the Age of AI: Reframing Human Agency and Institutional Foresight in High-Performance Computing Futures (in session "Special")
DSTI Opening (in session "Keynote")
Emergent Leadership in Digital Public Infrastructure: A Practice Nexus Approach to Sociotechnical Transformation in South Africa (in session "Special")
Empowering Research Communities - Data Sovereignty and Skills Development for Managing Data (in session "SA NREN")
Empowering South African Research through the Altron AI Factory (in session "DIRISA")
Engaging with International Cyber Forums (in session "ISSA")
Entangled Worlds: Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, and the Future of High-Performance Computing. (in session "HPC Applications")
Ethical Boundaries of Plagiarism Detection in the Age of AI (in session "ISSA")
Ethical principles and social implications of generative AI (in session "ISSA")
Exploring new ways to decarbonize metal production with multiphysics modelling and high-performance computing (in session "HPC Applications")
Exploring the Skies like Never Before, with SKAO | Opportunities for Africa in the Data-Intensive World (in session "HPC Technology")
Factors associated with sexually transmitted infection literacy among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Soweto: A machine learning approach (in session "DIRISA")
Federated Computing for Health Data Science in Africa (in session "HPC Technology")
From Energetics to Rates: A Hands-on Workshop on Microkinetic Modelling with ML Potentials (in session "Workshop")
From Idea to Impact: Scalable AI Workflows with MATLAB & HPC - Bridging AI Challenges with Scalable, Reliable, and Explainable Solutions (in session "HPC Applications")
From Punch Cards to AI-Powered HPC: A 40-Year Journey in Computational Chemistry Infrastructure (in session "HPC Applications")
Ghost Image Reconstruction with Classical and Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (in session "Special")
GPU/LLM as a Service Platform (in session "HPC Technology")
Harnessing CHPC Resources for Large-Scale Geophysical Modelling and Mineral Prospectivity Analysis in Southern Africa (in session "HPC Applications")
High-Performance Computing for Multiphase Flow Modelling of Oxygen Lancing in Pyrometallurgical Tap-Holes (in session "HPC Applications")
Holes, Hops and Haven Ratios—Molecular Dynamics of Ion Transport and Transference in MFSI/[C₄C₁pyr][FSI] electrolytes (M = Li, Na, K) (in session "HPC Applications")
How custom chatbot works and how to build a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented-Generation) system from scratch (in session "Workshop")
How Intel and HPE team up to solve challenges in Agentic AI, such as IO pressure, security, system heterogeneity and TCO. (in session "Keynote")
Hybrid Stacking and Embedded Regression with Multi-Phase Feature Selection for Explainable Crop Yield Prediction in Botswana (in session "DIRISA")
Identification of Quantum Hardware based on Noise Fingerprint Using Machine Learning (in session "Special")
Industry Crossfire (in session "Keynote")
Integrating High-Performance Computing and Deep Learning for Big Data-Driven Cyberinfrastructure: A Framework for Scalable AI Research in African Research Institutions (in session "HPC Technology")
Intel Xeon 6: Powering AI Inference from Edge to Cloud for Modern Business (in session "HPC Technology")
Investigations of Selected Properties of Material under Dynamical High Pressure and Temperature (in session "HPC Applications")
Is AI Killing HPC? No, it isn’t, and it’s a stupid question (in session "Keynote")
Is it Time to Switch to Machine Learnt Potentials? (in session "HPC Applications")
Leveraging Cyber-infrastructure for Open Science: DIRISA's Contribution to Data-Driven Decision-Making in South Africa. (in session "DIRISA")
Leveraging undersea cables and optical fibre for high-volume science workflows (in session "Keynote")
Materials Modelling using DFT (in session "Workshop")
Materials Modelling Workshop using Density Functional Theory (DFT) (in session "Workshop")
Microkinetic Modelling with ML Potentials (in session "Workshop")
NICIS Welcome (in session "Keynote")
NSTF Awards: Recognising Research Software and the People Who Build It (in session "Keynote")
Ocean Modelling at the CHPC: Advancing Southern Ocean and Climate Research (in session "HPC Applications")
Openstack part 1 (in session "Workshop")
Openstack part 2 (in session "Workshop")
Optimising Synthetic Data Generation for Cybersecurity Datasets (in session "ISSA")
Optimization and Placement Patterns for training and inference workloads (in session "HPC Technology")
Password Security Quantum Readiness Framework for IT Professionals (in session "Special")
Personal Information Disclosure on Facebook: An Exploratory Study of Demographic differences of first-year IT students at Nelson Mandela University (in session "ISSA")
Q & A (in session "HPC Technology")
Q & A (in session "SA NREN")
Q & A (in session "SA NREN")
Q & A (in session "SA NREN")
Q & A (in session "HPC Technology")
Q & A (in session "DIRISA")
Q & A (in session "HPC Technology")
Q & A (in session "HPC Technology")
Q & A (in session "Special")
Q & A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q & A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q & A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q & A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q&A (in session "HPC Technology")
Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q&A (in session "HPC Applications")
Q&A (in session "Special")
Q&A (in session "Special")
Q&A (in session "DIRISA")
Quantum Machine Learning for Africa (QML4Africa) (in session "Workshop")
Quantum Machine Learning for Africa part 2 (in session "Workshop")
Quantum Machine Learning for Africa part 3 (in session "Workshop")
Quantum Optimisation Algorithms on Calculating Ramsey Numbers (in session "Special")
Quantum Reservoir Computing and Principal Component Analysis for Sustainable High-Performance Search: A New Paradigm for Digital Energy Efficiency (in session "Special")
Recognising South African Voices: A Multilingual ASR Pipeline (in session "DIRISA")
Recommendations for Running Bioinformatics Applications on CHPC (in session "HPC Applications")
Reference Genome Assembly, Pangenome Construction, and Population Analysis of the Spotted Hyena (Crocuta Crocuta) from the Kruger National Park (in session "HPC Applications")
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting — Session 1 (in session "SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting")
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting — Session 2 (in session "SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting")
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting — Session 3 (in session "SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting")
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting — Session 4 (in session "SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting")
SADiLaR's repository as a cyber-infrastructure: Improving data accessibility for South African languages (in session "DIRISA")
SANReN Connect Proof of Concept (POC) (in session "SA NREN")
Scalability and Future-Proofing SANReN Network Infrastructure: Road to 400/800Gbps and AI-Driven Network Intelligence (in session "SA NREN")
Scalability and Future-Proofing SANReN Network Infrastructure: Road to 400/800Gbps and AI-Driven Network Intelligence (in session "SA NREN")
Scalable Network Observability (in session "SA NREN")
Secure HPC and AI Inference Workloads (in session "HPC Technology")
Strategic Infrastructure and Partnerships for the Challenges of Petabyte/Exa-Scale Data and High-Speed Transfers in the SADC Region and Beyond (in session "SA NREN")
Strategic infrastructure investments and partnerships and how to maximise private sector investments (in session "SA NREN")
Strategic Infrastructure Investments and Partnerships, and How to Maximise on Private Sector Investments (in session "SA NREN")
Supercomputing for Sustainability: Balancing Performance and Energy (in session "Special")
Sustainable Research Software and Infrastructure for HPC: Practices, Challenges, and Community (in session "Special")
Tailoring structural design of spinel LiMn2O4 cathode material through high entropy doping (in session "HPC Applications")
TBA (in session "HPC Technology")
TENET Update (in session "SA NREN")
The African Bioinformatics Institute: Building Data Infrastructure for Genomics in Africa (in session "HPC Applications")
The Convergence of HPC and AI (in session "HPC Technology")
The Dell AI Factory-What it is and why it matters (in session "HPC Technology")
The Dynamic Control of Head Stabilisation in Cheetahs: A Computer Vision and Optimisation Approach (in session "HPC Applications")
The Effect of Cybersecurity Fatigue on Employees’ Compliance with Cybersecurity Measures (in session "ISSA")
The Evolving Coexistence of HPC and AI — The US Leadership Class Computing Facility and Other Developments. (in session "Keynote")
The National Policy Data Observatory (NPDO) (in session "HPC Technology")
The South African 110K Human Genome Program: Enabling a Big Data in Health Environment for African Personalised Medicine (in session "Keynote")
The State of SA NREN in 2025 (in session "SA NREN")
Transforming Health Logistics through Digital Leadership: Rwanda’s Drone Delivery flagship project. (in session "Special")
Uncertainty Quantification in Patient-Specific Cardiovascular CFD: A Global Sensitivity Study on the Lengau Cluster (in session "HPC Applications")
Unpacking the effects of Cyber Fraud on Financial Aid students in South Africa (in session "ISSA")
Using Acceleration as a Service: Rethinking HPC Infrastructure in the AI Era (in session "Keynote")
Value-driven Artificial Intelligence, Data and Natural Language Processing solutions built on the CHPC sovereign cloud infrastructure (in session "HPC Technology")
VCo2O4 (001) surface properties in zinc-air batteries (in session "HPC Applications")
Vendor Presentation (in session "HPC Technology")
Vendor Presentation (TBC) (in session "HPC Technology")
Welcome (in session "Keynote")
® Building the Future: Morocco's High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (in session "HPC Technology")
® Object storage for High Performance I/O (in session "HPC Technology")
® Scalable Data Management Techniques for AI workloads (in session "HPC Technology")
®Training ML algorithms on resource-constrained devices — a memory/storage perspective (in session "HPC Technology")
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