Centre for High Performance Computing 2025 National Conference

Leveraging undersea cables and optical fibre for high-volume science workflows

2 Dec 2025, 09:00

45m

1/0-AB - Hall A+B (Century City Convention Centre)

Keynote Talk SA NREN Keynote

Speaker

Dr Rosalind Thomas (Collaborating Company -SAEx International Management Ltd)

Description

This Keynote presentation will be focused on the following:

• The readiness of SADC NRENs to the challenges of Petascale and Exascale data to be generated by key projects such as, e.g., SKA and the Bioinformatics Genome Sequencing projects.

• Strategic infrastructure investments and partnerships and how to maximise on private sector investments.

• Data sovereignty and developing the right skills for our research communities to be able to handle and run these increasing scientific data flows.