Name: Centre for High Performance Computing 2019 National Conference
Start: 2019-12-01T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-12-05T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Birchwood

Monday, 25 November 2019 ¶
Tuesday, 26 November 2019 ¶
Wednesday, 27 November 2019 ¶
Thursday, 28 November 2019 ¶
Friday, 29 November 2019 ¶
Saturday, 30 November 2019 ¶
Sunday, 1 December 2019 ¶

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00

09:00

09:00 - 17:00

CHPC Induction Tutorial
CHPC Induction Tutorial
09:00 - 10:30

09:00 - 17:00

10:30 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Using PBSPro on Lengau
Using PBSPro on Lengau
11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Practical HPC
Practical HPC
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Practical HPC (ctd)
Practical HPC (ctd)
15:30 - 17:00

Monday, 2 December 2019 ¶

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Opening Session

09:45 KEYNOTE 1: Digital Transformation: Issues of the Public Service - Mandla Ngcobo
10:30 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 High Performance Computing for Medical Interventional Planning Applications - Malebogo Ngoepe (UCT)

11:20 Next Generation Sequencing: where big data and high-performance computing meet - Brigitte Glanzmann (DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. )

11:40 Field-induced exotic electronic phases in spin-filter tunnel junctions - Aniekan Ukpong (UKZN)
Storage and IO 1
Storage and IO 1
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 High Performance Data Access: the Hermes approach - Xian-He Sun

11:30 MeerKAT archive and data access - Martin Slabber (SARAO)

12:00 Updating the Outdated Storage Paradigm to Handle Complex Computational Workloads - Craig Bungay (Spectra Logic)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Research highlights from the Molecular Bio-computations and Drug Design Research Group at UKZN - Mahmoud soliman (Molecular Bio-computation and Drug Design Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban 4001, South Africa)

13:50 Computational Fluid Dynamics: from solar thermal receivers and collectors to sub-antarctic island wind simulation - Ken Craig (University of Pretoria)

14:10 Predicting Thermodynamic Properties of Ionic Liquids—from Molecular Simulation to Machine Learning - Gerhard Venter (University of Cape Town)

14:30 Interaction between S. mansoni Universal stress G4LZI3 protein and selected polyphenols: a bioinformatics investigation. - Abidemi Paul Kappo (University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa 3886, South Africa)
Storage and IO 2
Storage and IO 2
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Designing Reusable Composable Components for the (HPC) I/O Stack - Ali Butt (Virginia Tech)

14:00 PETSc: High-Performance Software Library for Engineering and Science Simulation - Hong Zhang (Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.)

14:30 NEXTGenIO: exploring the potential of non-volatile memory in HPC - David Homan (EPCC)
Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 17:00

17:00

17:00 - 18:00

18:00 Intel
Intel
18:00 - 19:00

19:00 Intel Braai
Intel Braai
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 3 December 2019 ¶

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 KEYNOTE 3 (SA NREN): eInfrastructures as enablers for global science and education - Josva Kleist (NORDUnet A/S)

09:45 KEYNOTE 4: Scientific Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures – Data Analytics and the Intersection of HPC and Edge Computing - Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
10:30 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Design of selective reagents and functional materials: A theoretical and experimental approach - Zenixole Tshentu (Nelson Mandela University)

11:20 SAVIME - Simulation Analysis and Visualization in-Memory - Fabio Porto (LNCC)

11:40 Advancing the understanding of interactions between plasma arcs and power electronics with high performance computing - Quinn Reynolds (Mintek)

12:00 Convective scale modelling on the CHPC: ICON vs COSMO models - Patience Mulovhedzi (South African Weather Service)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Parallel and Distributed Search Algorithms - Cornelia Inggs (Stellenbosch University)

11:30 ML approaches for HPC - Peter Braam (University of Oxford)

12:00 Evaluating the Compressibility of Elevation Data using Space-Filling Curves - Conrad Haupt (University of the Witwatersrand)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Cloud Computing a Solution to Internet Services Downtime at Namibian Institutions of Higher Learning - Shadreck Chitauro (Namibia University of Science and Technology)

11:25 BRICS programme on “Cybersecurity: Software and Data Security” - Joey Jansen van Vuuren (Tshwane University of Technology)

11:50 SA NREN Talk 3 - Attlee Munyaradzi Gamundani

12:15 SANReN Data Transfer Pilot - Kasandra Pillay (SANReN)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 HPC Ecosystems & System Administration
HPC Ecosystems & System Administration
13:30 - 15:00
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 The research benefits of improving equity, diversity and inclusion - Toni Collis (WHPC & Collis-Holmes Innovations)

13:50 Benchmarking off-the-shelf radio astronomy software on Lengau - Sean February (SARAO)

14:10 BIOPERIANT12, a regional high-resolution model configuration towards developing the South African VrESM Earth System Model - Nicolette Chang (Ocean Systems and Climate, CSIR)

14:30 The adoption of Deep Learning in Weather Forecast - Yania Molina Souto (LNCC)
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Women in HPC
Women in HPC
15:30 - 17:00

17:00

17:00 - 18:50
Wednesday, 4 December 2019 ¶

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 KEYNOTE 5 (DIRISA): DALI: A Data life cycle instrument for management and sharing of data: Towards the reproducibility and data reuse of scientific research - Hakizumwami Birali Runesha (University of Chicago)

09:45 KEYNOTE 6: Eliminating Weapons of Math Destruction: Next-Generation Arithmetic - John Gustafson (National University of Singapore)
10:30 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 HPC Education
HPC Education
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 More than meets the eye: Towards an Artificial Intelligence Observatory - Matias Carrasco Kind (NCSA)

11:20 EOS storage system - Sean Murray (CHPC, CSIR)

11:40 The Capture, Storage and Consumption of the MeerKAT Radio Telescope’s Sensor Data - Suleiman Hoosen (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

12:00 Federating the Ilifu Cloud - Rob Simmonds (University of Cape Town)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 High throughput in silico screening for tailored catalytic reactivity and selectivity - Caroline M. Krauter (Schrödinger GmbH)

11:20 Smoke and ventilation simulation using the CHPC - Kenneth Allen (Greenplan Consultants)

11:40 In-silico investigations of metal coordinating enzymes: From Biofuel production to Antimicrobial drug resistance - Vuyani Moses (Vuyani)

12:00 Use of high-throughput sequencing to uncover resistance mechanisms in sugarcane - Robyn Jacob (South African Sugarcane Research Institute)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Developing infrastructure for federated data analysis for protected human data - Nicola Mulder (University of Cape Town)

13:50 Developments Around Data in Botswana to support 4iR preparedness, Research, Innovation in a Developing Country - Tshiamo Motshegwa (University Of Botswana)

14:10 Evolution of a South African eResearch support service - Dale Peters (UCT)

14:30 Cybers Security Threats – Is Our Research Data Safe? - Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Computational Catalysis @ NWU - Cornie van Sittert (North-West University)

13:50 Speech data harvesting and factorized deep neural network development for the low-resource indigenous languages of South Africa - Jaco Badenhorst (CSIR Next Generation Enterprises and Institutions Cluster)

14:10 Computational Modelling Study on Stability of Li-S/Se System - Masedi Cliffton (UL)

14:30 Finite volume modelling of dense granular flow in rotary kilns - Alfred Bogaers (Ex Mente Technologies)
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 CHPC PIs & users
CHPC PIs & users
15:30 - 17:00

Ceph and other large data storage systems
Ceph and other large data storage systems
15:30 - 17:00
18:00 and Prize-Giving Ceremony
and Prize-Giving Ceremony
18:00 - 19:30
Contributions

18:00 KEYNOTE 7: The Future of Computing Will Be non-von Neumann - Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)

18:45 Prize Giving Ceremony
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Thursday, 5 December 2019 ¶

07:00

07:00 - 08:00

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Industry Forum
Industry Forum
09:00 - 10:30

09:00 - 17:00

09:00 - 17:00

10:30 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Industry Forum
Industry Forum
11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Industry Forum
Industry Forum
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Industry Forum
Industry Forum
15:30 - 16:30