Centre for High Performance Computing 2025 National Conference

from Sunday, 30 November 2025 (08:00) to Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (22:20)
Century City Convention Centre

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Nov 2025
1 Dec 2025
2 Dec 2025
3 Dec 2025
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting (until 10:30) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
09:00
Workshop (until 10:30) (1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting (until 12:30) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
11:00
Workshop (until 12:30) ()
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Keynote - Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC) (until 10:30) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:00 Welcome - Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels (CHPC)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:05 DSI Welcome - Mr Charles Mokonoto (Department of Science and Technology)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:15 CSIR Welcome - Dr Lulama Wakaba   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:25 NICIS Welcome - Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:45 Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration: Towards Accelerated Impact - The Role of Being a Good Ancestor - Mr Warren Hero*   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
10:30 --- Refreshment Break ---
11:00
HPC Applications (until 12:30) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
11:00 Entangled Worlds: Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, and the Future of High-Performance Computing. - Muaaz Bhamjee (University of Johannesburg)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
11:20 Is it Time to Switch to Machine Learnt Potentials? - Scott Woodley (University College London)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
12:20 Q&A - Q&A   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
11:00
HPC Technology (until 12:30) (1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9)
11:00
ISSA (until 12:30) (1/1-10 - Room 10)
11:00
Special (until 12:30) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Keynote (until 10:30) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:00 Building global federated infrastructure in the R&E community - Ms Licia Florio* (NORDUnet)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:45 Cyber Intelligence at Scale: Risk Evaluation of DNS as Critical infrastructure - Prof. Barry Irwin* (Noroff University)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
HPC Applications (until 12:30) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Keynote (until 10:30) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:00 Intel AI in Action at the 2024 Olympics: Deployments and Benefits for your Business - Dr Jean-Laurent Philippe* (Intel)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
09:45 Tackling the Challenges of Reproducibility and Data Sharing in Computational Science - Prof. Hakizumwami Birali Runesha* (University of Chicago)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
HPC Applications (until 12:30) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting (until 15:00) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
13:30
Workshop (until 15:00) ()
15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting (until 17:00) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
15:30
Workshop (until 17:00) ()
17:00 --- Intermission ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
HPC Applications (until 15:00) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
13:30 The Impact and Benefits of Partnering for Operational Weather Forecast Continuity - Ms Stephanie Landman* (South African Weather Service)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
13:50 Computational modelling of functional materials and chemical reactivity using molecular dynamics, DFT and wave-function-based approaches - Prof. Lyudmila Moskaleva* (University of the Free State)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
14:10 Unravelling plant-biotic/abiotic stress using computational biology and bioinformatics tools. - Dr Molemi Rauwane* (Nelson Mandela University)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
14:30 Fitting Classical Forcefields Programmatically for Application in Molecular Dynamics Simulations - Dr Kenneth Kgatwane (University of Limpopo)   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
14:50 Q&A - Q&A   (1/1-11 - Room 11)
13:30
HPC Technology (until 15:00) (1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9)
13:30
ISSA (until 15:00) (1/1-10 - Room 10)
13:30
Special (until 15:00) (1/1-7 - Room 7)
15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
Keynote - Facilitator: Mr Dan Olds (OrionX) (until 17:00) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
15:30 A Brief Tour of Your Data Center Future - Mr Dan Olds* (Olds Research)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
15:50 Industry Inquisition - Mr Dan Olds (Olds Research)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
17:00
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC) (until 17:45) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
17:00 Challenges and Opportunities of HPC in the age of AI - Dr Utz-Uwe Haus* (HPE HPC/AI EMEA Research Lab (ERL))   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
17:45 --- Intermission ---
18:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
HPC Applications (until 15:00) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
HPC Applications (until 17:00) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
17:00 --- Intermission ---
17:15
Poster (until 19:15) (1/0-0 - Foyer)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
HPC Applications (until 15:00) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
HPC Applications (until 17:00) (1/1-11 - Room 11)
17:00 --- Canapes & Cocktails Networking Session ---
18:30
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (CHPC) (until 19:15) (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
18:30 The Third Pillar of HPC - Prof. Thomas Sterling* (TACC)   (1/0-AB - Hall A+B)
19:15 --- Awards ---