Conveners
Keynote: Opening
- Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC)
Keynote: Industry Inquisition
- Facilitator: Mr Dan Olds (OrionX)
Keynote
- Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Keynote: Wednesday
- There are no conveners in this block
Keynote: Closing
- Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Keynote: Tuesday
- There are no conveners in this block
In the rapidly evolving landscape of High-Performance Computing (HPC), the theme of "Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration: Towards Accelerated Impact" underscores the critical need for synergistic efforts to drive innovation and societal progress. This keynote presentation will explore the profound concept of being a "good ancestor" and its pivotal role in shaping impactful cyberinfrastructure...
In this informative and fast-moving presentation, long-time industry analyst Dan Olds conducts a whirlwind trip discussing why the HPC/AI market is increasingly difficult to measure and highlights new technologies that will help data centers deal with rapidly increasing compute demand. Spoiler alert: he declares air cooling dead and explains why. As his big finish, Olds boldly declares that...
This session has become a signature event at CHPC conferences. The rules are brutally simple. Vendors have five minutes and only three slides to put their best foot forward to the audience and the inquisitors. The panel includes industry analyst Dan Olds along with two standout students from the cluster competition who have been briefed on the vendors and their slides.
After their...
Large scale AI applications are drivers for the design and deployment of the next generation of supercomputers. While large language model training and generative AI applications take the headlines, scientific workloads are starting to utilize AI as algorithmic extensions to their existing implementations. We will discuss how the needs between these communities differ, how system software and...
Intel has already put a lot of “AI in action”. Come and hear about some of the use cases that were deployed at scale during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You will be blown away with the capabilities and their results ! And the session will also deliver some details about the technologies and features of the Intel ingredients that are in these use case solutions, as well as look...
Research and discovery are increasingly computation, data-intensive, interdisciplinary, and collaborative. However, reproducing results remains a significant challenge. Scholarly publications are often disconnected from the data and software that produced the results, making reproducibility difficult. Researchers today generate vast amounts of data, code, and software tools that need to be...
The advent of Exascale computing in 2022 marks a major milestone in HPC but also demonstrates its limitations for future progress. Historically, conventional MPP (and large commodity clusters) have achieved enhanced performance by a factor of 2 every two years. In addition to CPUs, GPUs have extended this through streaming SIMD computations for certain classes of application algorithms. But...
An AI agent is a computational entity that can interact with the world and adapt its actions based on learnings from these interactions. I discuss the potential for such agents to serve as next-generation scientific assistants, for example by acting as cognitive partners and laboratory assistants. In the former case, agents, with their machine learning and data-processing capabilities,...
The domain name system, or DNS, is a critical component of the Internet ecosystem we use. Almost every single transaction and connection from email to online commerce makes use of DNS as an initial a fundamental step. While the primary purpose in the eyes of the public is to mask the complexities of host addressing, and location, it’s use has evolved to be critical for a whole lot more, One of...
This Keynote presentation will be focused on the following:
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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.
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Strategic infrastructure investments and partnerships and how to maximise on private sector investments.
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Data sovereignty and developing the...
