Speaker
Prof.
Meoli Kashorda
(KENET)
Description
Kenya Education Network (KENET) is the National Research and Education of Kenya
responsible for building and operating the research infrastructures for the academic community
in Kenya.
The research infrastructures include a high speed national network with low-
congestion international links to global research & education networks including TENET /
SANREN in South Africa.
This talk will describe how KENET has created Special Interest
Groups (SIGs) in order to discover and promote research collaboration in three main priority
areas, namely, engineering, computational modelling and materials science (CMMS), and
educational technology. The talk shall describe the innovative methods used to discover
research champions in different areas and the joint activities of one of the Special SIG on CMMS
in the period 2016-2017.
Kenya plans to build the capacity of Kenyan researchers in the use of
HPC for researchers with the support of CHPC and other grid infrastructures operators such as
the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI). The talk shall describe how KENET has setup a low-
cost Certification Authority (CA) that has been accredited by EUGRIDPMA. The certificates
issued by the CA would allow Kenyan researchers to access EGI to supplement their computing
needs. The talk concludes that any African NREN can facilitate access to HPC and Grid
Computing facilities in any part of the world and therefore to promote research collaboration and
productivity.
HPC content
The talk concludes that any African NREN can facilitate access to HPC and Grid Computing facilities in any part of the world and therefore to promote research collaboration and productivity.
Primary author
Prof.
Meoli Kashorda
(KENET)
