Conveners
Keynote: Opening & Keynote 1
- Chair: Werner Janse Van Rensburg (CHPC)
Keynote: 2 [Diamond]
- Chair: Dorah Thobye (Staff)
Keynote: 3
- Chair: Edward Rakate (CHPC)
Keynote: Vendor Crossfire
- Facilitators: Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research)
- Dan Olds (OrionX)
Keynote: 4
- Chair: Anwar Vahed ()
Keynote: 5
- Chair: Leon Staphorst (Director: SANReN)
Keynote: 6
- Chair: Happy Sithole (NICIS)
Keynote: Awards & Closing
- Chair: Happy Sithole (NICIS)
We have seen several transformational waves in computing over the last few decades, and AI is a key one. It has significant impact in many research and industrial areas enabling users to get actionable insight from data.
Insights from numerical simulation and modeling - commonly labeled as “HPC” was also one of the important developments in the last two decades – and is an area which...
Machine learning methods have seen a rapid expansion in applications to various fields of astrophysics in recent years. In this talk, I will discuss our results on using deep convolutional neural networks to estimate the parameters of strong gravitational lenses from telescope data. Estimating these parameters with traditional maximum-likelihood modeling methods is a time- and...
Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research will give an overview of HPC market trends and forecasts, including the complete (sometimes hidden) dynamics of cloud computing, the near- and long-term industry effects of COVID-19, and reactions from SC20.
Sea-level rise constitutes a significant risk for over 600 million people in the Low-Elevation Coastal Zone. Consid-
erable uncertainty exists over the magnitude of possible future sea-level rise, because of poorly understood processes
governing the stability of ice sheets (continental sized glaciers). One such uncertainty is how meltwater interacts with
ice under a warming climate....
The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the need for secure and reliable cyberinfrastructure to support research and education. The reality however is that while selected players in the education sector have made commendable progress in terms of building, maintaining and upgrading such kind of infrastructure, many critical players are still struggling to access and build...
At no time in the seven decades-long history of the field of supercomputing has there been a year like this. 2020 has been at the edge of a world-wide disaster with HPC being brought to the battle against Covid-19 in a planetary response unmatched in its history. At this moment of international cooperation in our field to vanquish a pandemic that has killed more than a million innocent...
