The 2019 CHPC Conference includes a broad and diverse programme of workshops, tutorials, special interest group (SIG) seminars, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) meetings, and technical sessions.
Final programme and venue map now available.
Workshops
Sunday 1 December 2019
Morning [09:00 to 12:30]:
- SAFIRE for Service Providers, Guy Halse & Donald Coetzee, TENET/SAFIRE. [room: Virginia]
Full day [09:00 to 17:00]:
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CHPC Users' Guide: (1) Induction, Andrew Gill & Kevin Colville, CHPC; (2) PBS Pro for Users, Nkwe Monama & Zama Mtshali, CHPC; and (3) Practical HPC, Krishna Govender & Andrew Gill, CHPC. [room: Cape Town]
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OpenStack cloud installation, Zama Mtshali, CHPC, Stig Telfer, Sakhile Masoka CHPC.[CANCELLED] -
SIG: Security by Design and flaws in IoT Architectures, Meshack Ndala (convenor), CHPC. [room: Auditorium]
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SIG: Weather and Climate Modelling, Mary-Jane Bopape (convenor), South African Weather Service, Fabio Porto (convenor), LNCC – DEXL (Brazil), Victor Stepanenko (convenor), Lomonosov Moscow State University. [room: Barcelona]
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From A to AI with Intel, Walter Riviera, Intel. [room: King Shaka]
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Schrödinger Materials Science Suite, Caroline Krauter, Schrödinger. [room: Grand Central]
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Receptor based virtual screening, molecular docking and molecular dynamics to explore promising molecules, Tahir Pillay, University of Pretoria, and Ataul Islam, University of Manchester. [room: Charles du
Gaulle] -
Machine Learning and applications Part 1, Deepak Kar, Wits University, and Bruce Mellado, Wits University and iThemba LABS. [room: Heathrow]
Conference
Monday
- Opening and Keynote
- HPC Storage and IO
- HPC Applications
- Quantum Computing [room: Heathrow]
- BRICS Climate BoF [closed session in room: Virginia]
- Vendor Crossfire
- Poster Presentations [in Foyer]
- Keynote and Dinner
Tuesday
- Keynotes
- HPC Technology
- HPC Applications
- HPC Ecosystems and Sysadmin BoF
- SA NREN
- Women in HPC BoF
- Poster Presentations [in Foyer]
Wednesday
- Keynotes
- HPC Technology
- HPC Applications
- HPC Education BoF
- CR4D Climate Research for Development BoF [closed session in: Virginia]
- DIRISA
- CHPC PIs and Users BoF
- Keynote and Prize-Giving Ceremony
Workshops
Thursday
Full day [09:00 to 17:00]:
- SIG: CHPC Industry Forum, Werner Janse Van Rensburg, CHPC [room: Auditorium]
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SIG: Chemistry, Material science and Health science, Cornie van Sittert, North-West University and Penny Govender, University of Johannesburg [room: King Shaka]
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Accelerated free energy calculations using open-source tools: Galaxy Project platform, BRIDGE and Galaxy Comp. Chem., Kevin J. Naidoo, Chris Barnett, and Tharindu Senapathi, University of Cape Town [room: Virginia]
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NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Deep Learning Fundamentals, Krishna Mouli, Boston Limited [room: Cape Town]
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HPC on OpenStack, David Power, Boston Limited [room: Grand Central]
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iRODS core competencies, capabilities, patterns and use cases, Claude Fortune, DIRISA [room: Waterkloof]
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Simplifying Research Data Management with Globus, Vas Vasiliadis, University of Chicago [room: Marco Polo]
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Machine Learning and applications Part 2, Deepak Kar, Wits University, and Bruce Mellado, Wits University and iThemba LABS [room:Heathrow]
- SIG: NICIS Cyber Security Engagement, NICIS [room: Charles du Gaulle]
Venues
| Registration: | 08:00 to 17:00 | O.R. Tambo Foyer |
| Coffee Breaks: |
10:30 to 11:00 and 15:00 to 15:30 |
International Centre and Domestic Centre |
| Lunch: | 12:30 to 13:30 | Cloversgreen |
