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SUMMARY:CSIR CHPC support during the National Department of Health Communi
 ty Health Worker Covid-19 Household Screening Campaign
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Herman le Roux (CSIR)\nDuring the start of the Covid
 -19 pandemic last year\, the National Department of Health launched a numb
 er of initiatives to combat the spread of the virus. One such initiative w
 as to conduct household screenings during Lockdown Level 5. This entailed 
 using Community Health Workers to conduct Household Screenings. A basic qu
 estionnaire was defined and deployed using the Cmore platform. The latter 
 is a collaboration and shared situation awareness platform developed by th
 e CSIR. It has web and mobile applications. The latter was configured to c
 ollect screening data entered by approximately 25\,000 Community Health Wo
 rkers\, which overloaded the existing Cmore production infrastructure host
 ed in the CSIR ICT Data Centre (on dedicated hardware). Since the health w
 orkers were deployed across all 9 provinces\, the decision was made to spl
 it the deployment into 10 servers\, thus 9 provinces plus a spare for nati
 onal. The CSIR CHPC team got onboard\, and configured 10 servers\, each wi
 th 164GB RAM\, 32 vCPUs\, and approx. 100GB disk space. This was done in l
 ess than two weeks. However\, the difficult part was to get an operational
  copy of the Cmore platform with all its configured data onto the 10 serve
 rs. This required some innovative approaches\, but the servers were deploy
 ed\, and more than 3m household screening records collected. 4 of the 10 s
 ervers remain active\, now for other Covid-19 related deployments in suppo
 rt of Western Cape Government Health\, Gauteng Province Department Roads &
  Transport and the National Institute for Occupational Health.\n\nhttps://
 events.chpc.ac.za/event/98/contributions/1526/
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