The newly established High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analytics (HPC-BDA) Centre of Excellence at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU) represents Ethiopia’s bold entry into the continental cyber-infrastructure landscape, complementing South Africa’s CHPC and NICIS. Anchored in state-of-the-art laboratories spanning Business Analytics, HPC & Cloud Systems,...
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.
This presentation will focus on the collaborative, quantitative co-design approach to the deployment of large-scale computing services adopted by the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility in the UK (www.dirac.ac.uk). Over the past 15 years, successive generations of DiRAC services have demonstrated how workflow-centred co-design can maximise the scientific impact of computing investments. The co-design of...
There is a great need to develop computing infrastructure to support the increased application of data science and health informatics across Africa which includes robust data sharing and federated computing, whilst fostering research collaboration. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH; https://www.ga4gh.org/) aims to promote responsible data sharing standards through the use of...
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...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
