Conveners
Plenary: Opening
- Werner Janse Van Rensburg (CHPC)
Plenary: Vendor Crossfire
- Michael Feldman (TOP500.org)
Plenary: Diamond Sponsor
- Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Plenary: Plenary
- Leon Staphorst (Director: SANReN)
Plenary: Plenary
- Vahed Anwar (CSIR)
Plenary: Plenary 7
- Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Plenary: Prize-Giving
- Happy Sithole (CHPC)
Dr
Phil Mjwara
(DST)
04/12/2017, 09:15
Sharad Gandhi
(Market.Consult)
04/12/2017, 09:45
Cognitive Computing & Machine Learning
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
Artificial Intelligence is the “Next Big Thing.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most
profound innovation by humans, with a far deeper and wider impact on our lives, than
all preceding innovations from steam engine of 1712 to the Internet. AI has the
potential to transform the very role of humans in our society. Its disruptive power is
evidenced in a growing number of applications even...
Mr
Michael Feldman
(TOP500.org)
04/12/2017, 15:30
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
As the exascale era approaches, the landscape of high performance computing is changing rapidly. The advent of AI and machine learning has emerged as a major influence in HPC system and component design, and has encouraged users to rethink their traditional workflows. TOP500 News Editor Michael Feldman will recap some of the most important developments in this area that took place over the...
Prof.
Meoli Kashorda
(KENET)
05/12/2017, 09:00
SA NREN
Talk
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...
Dr
Peter Braam
(-)
05/12/2017, 09:45
Storage and I/O
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
Dr
Tshiamo Motshegwa
(University Of Botswana)
06/12/2017, 09:00
DIRISA
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
There is a convergence of data and compute intensive paradigms and a proliferation of research and projects in these areas and applications. There also is a global trend in developing distributed federated high performance data cyberinfrastructures and e-infrastructures to support to research, encourage collaborations and to facilitate data sharing for open science.
These ...
Mr
Kiernan Mike
(Microsoft)
06/12/2017, 09:45
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
Please join Rüdiger Dorn, Director of Cloud Strategy in the office of the CTO of Microsoft, where he will highlight trends and examples around how compute infrastructures can be scaled, latency can be reduced and the computational throughput can be multiplied. How the arrival of AI and ML allows researchers to tap into toolkits that can augment their work in the area of cognitive services,...
Thomas Sterling
(Indiana University)
06/12/2017, 18:00
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Invited talk (plenary/keynote)
This is the Dawning of the Neo-Digital Age; a unique period brought on by the end of Moore’s Law as semiconductor fabrication enters its final phase with nano-scale feature size. The Neo-Digital Age also corresponds to a time when energy constraints at the chip level and the system level bound power consumption and indirectly the clock rate of device logic. It will prove to be an epoch of...
