Conveners
Keynote: Opening
- Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC)
Keynote: Industry Crossfire
- Facilitator: Mr Dan Olds (OrionX)
Keynote
- Chair: Dr Lulama Wakaba ()
Keynote: NSTF Announcement
- Chair: Dr Lulama Wakaba ()
Keynote
- Chair: Mr Sabelo Dlamini ()
Keynote
- Chair: Dr More Manda ()
Keynote: Closing
- Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Keynote: Prof Thomas Sterling (Virtual Presentation)
- There are no conveners in this block
Scientific computing has undergone a fundamental transformation over the past decade. GPU-accelerated computing, which in 2015 was still at the fringes of supercomputing, has become the norm today. The recent advances — indeed, the revolution — in AI, together with the broader digital transformation of science, have placed HPC at the very center of scientific discovery. No AI-for-Science...
Industry analyst Dan Olds will discuss this issue and lay out his views on what he sees as an inane question. Expect some sarcasm, overblown rhetoric, and derision in this mercifully short presentation.
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...
Datacentres have evolved to maximize the GenAI wave, and now Agentic AI is driving an even bigger compute shift, with a massive heterogeneity of compute capabilities in the datacentres (CPU, GPU, accelerators, …). Data storage is key. Security of data is paramount. Processing capabilities still have to step up. But data storage and security at rest are not enough, as I/O pressure of...
Research software underpins nearly every aspect of modern science, from data processing and simulation to modelling, visualisation, and workflow automation. In South Africa, as around the world, HPC users and administrators play a substantial role in developing and maintaining the research software that drives the models, simulations, and workflows behind scientific discoveries. Unfortunately,...
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...
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, robust national cyber infrastructure is essential for driving innovation, securing critical systems, and empowering research across all sectors. This keynote explores how the strategic integration of advanced compute power and big data capabilities forms the backbone of modern cyber infrastructure, enabling nations to tackle complex challenges in...
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,...
Since 2016, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have partnered to advance genomic and precision medicine research and innovation in South Africa. South Africa is embarking on a pioneering journey to transform its healthcare landscape through the South African 110K Human Genome Program. This ambitious initiative aims to leverage...
This talk will discuss the fast evolving symbiosis between HPC and AI from both a market and scientific point of view, with a particular focus on how this manifests in the US National Science Foundation plans for the new Horizon system, part of the Leadership Class Computing Facility, and other developments around the world this year in HPC.
The Active Memory Architecture (AMA) is a non von Neumann, is a memory-centric, non von Neumann, graph processing architecture for scaling to Zettaflops performance with first production delivery in 2031.graph processing computer architecture for scaling to Zettaflops performance capability. Its first commercial production delivery is scheduled for 2031. The AMA project is in its second year...
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...
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...
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...
A short virtual presentation from Prof. Thomas Sterling.
Details to be confirmed,
