Centre for High Performance Computing 2021 National Conference
from
Wednesday, 1 December 2021 (10:00)
to
Friday, 3 December 2021 (20:00)
Monday, 29 November 2021
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
10:30
Opening
Opening
10:30 - 11:15
Contributions
10:30
Opening: Chair: Dr Werner Janse van Rensburg, CHPC
10:35
Welcome: Prof Yonah Seleti, DSI
10:50
Welcome: Dr Happy Sithole, NICIS
11:05
Modelling & Simulation Decadal Plan: Dr Jeffrey Baloyi, CSIR
11:15
1
1
11:15 - 12:00
Contributions
11:15
Globally Federated Supercomputing: InfiniCortex and other explorations
-
Marek Michalewicz
(
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw
)
12:00
Break
Break
12:00 - 12:15
12:15
2 Intel
2 Intel
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
More Security for High Performance Computing with Intel in the New Era of Supercomputing
-
Jean-Laurent Philippe
(
Intel
)
13:15
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
The IPCC Assessment Report Six: modelling contributions from the CHPC
-
Francois Engelbrecht
(
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
)
14:30
Computational chemistry and its application in pharmacy and drug development
-
Ponnadurai Ramasami
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
CSIR CHPC support during the National Department of Health Community Health Worker Covid-19 Household Screening Campaign
-
Herman le Roux
(
CSIR
)
14:30
Smart Spectrum Sharing (S3): Toolboxes to Support Efficient Utilisation of the National Spectrum Resources
-
Luzango Mfupe
(
CSIR
)
15:00
Break
Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates: towards sensitive bio-sensing of infectious diseases
-
Nikiwe Mhlanga
(
Dr
)
15:45
Computational Chemistry within the Laboratory of Applied Molecular Modelling at NWU
-
Cornie van Sittert
(
North-West University
)
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
Processing longitudinal population data using CHPC
-
Kobus Herbst
(
SAPRIN
)
15:45
Overview of http://CASABIO.org, The First Vertically Integrated Citizen Science Platfor
-
David Gwynne-Evans
(
CASABIO.org
)
16:15
Break
Break
16:15 - 16:30
16:30
3 Mr Stephen Ozoigbo, ARM
3 Mr Stephen Ozoigbo, ARM
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions
16:30
KEYNOTE 3: 4IR and opportunities within the next decade of compute: The era of Specialized and Confidential Compute
-
Stephen Ozoigbo
(
ARM
)
17:30
Break
Break
17:30 - 17:45
17:45
Vendor CrossfIre
Vendor CrossfIre
17:45 - 19:20
Contributions
17:45
HPC Market Update and Insights from SC21
-
Addison Snell
(
Intersect360 Research
)
18:15
Vendor Crossfire: Mr Addison Snell and Mr Dan Olds
-
Dan Olds
(
OrionX
)
Addison Snell
(
Intersect360 Research
)
Thursday, 2 December 2021
08:30
Empty
Empty
08:30 - 10:00
Empty
Empty
08:30 - 10:00
Empty
Empty
08:30 - 10:00
08:30 - 10:15
Contributions
08:30
Welcome and Opening
-
Chomora Mikeka
(
Malawi
)
08:55
SADC Secretariat
-
Anneline Morgan
(
SADC Secretariat
)
09:20
SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Framework
-
Happy Sithole
(
CHPC
)
09:45
SADC Centre of Excellence on ICT
-
Anneline Morgan
(
SADC Secretariat
)
10:00
UNECA Centre of Excellence on Digital Technologies
10:00
Informal Chat
Informal Chat
10:00 - 11:00
Informal Chat
Informal Chat
10:00 - 11:00
Informal Chat
Informal Chat
10:00 - 11:00
10:15
Break
Break
10:15 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions
10:30
Weather and Climate project
-
Mary-Jane Bopape
(
South African Weather Service
)
10:45
Open and Distance Learning in SADC
11:00
Comments and Discussions
11:30
Establishment NReNs
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions
11:00
Agriculture Empowered by SuperComputing
-
Nicolas Erdody
(
Open Parallel Ltd
)
11:30
Investigating the Pressure Effects on Structural Behaviour of Garnet-Type Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolyte Material: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Study
-
Raesibe Sylvia Ledwaba
(
University of Limpopo
)
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions
11:00
Introducing Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Bare-Metal, Secured Supercomputing Architecture
-
Gilad Shainer
(
NVIDIA
)
David Slama
11:30
Update on High Performance Computing at HPE
-
Duncan Roweth
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions
11:00
South African Universities in a Time Of Increasing Disruption
-
Johan Coetzee
(
University of the Free State
)
11:30
Electronic signatures security
-
Sune Von Solms
(
University of Johannesburg
)
12:00
Break
Break
12:00 - 12:15
Break
Break
12:00 - 12:15
Break
Break
12:00 - 12:15
Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 12:45
12:15
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
The usefulness of high-performance computing in small scale hydropower technology: Investigating the hydrodynamic effects of hydrokinetic turbines through validated CFD models
-
Chantel Niebuhr
(
University of Pretoria
)
12:45
Application of Computational Alchemy to screen alloys of alumina (Al2O3) as a catalyst support
-
Cecil Ouma
(
HySA - Infrastracturte
)
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
Trends and challenges in HPC from Dell Technologies
-
Kris Buggenhout
12:45
HPC Cloud Use Cases and Best Practices
-
Fritz Ferstl
(
Altair
)
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
The Internet of Things and Information Warfare
-
Brett van Niekerk
(
University of KwaZulu-Natal
)
12:45
The Lost Packet Warehousing Service
-
Heloise Meyer
(
CSIR
)
12:45
12:45 - 15:00
Contributions
12:45
Reports and Updates from Member States
13:30
Working Groups & Sub-Committees
14:00
Governance Structures
-
Anneline Morgan
(
SADC Secretariat
)
14:15
Road Map and Action Plan
14:45
Closing
13:15
Break
Break
13:15 - 13:30
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
13:30
13:30 - 14:45
Contributions
13:30
Migration towards single healthy trackable and access digital identity
-
Charles Sello Kungwane
(
City of Johannesburg
)
13:55
Ransomware: An unwanted Christmas present
-
Taryn Woods
(
Dark Trace
)
14:20
Quantum machine learning and mobile device security
-
Tawanda Chowuraya
(
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
Infectious disease susceptibility in the context of African genetic diversity
-
Marlo Möller
(
Stellenbosch University
)
14:30
Rational design of Sn(IV) porphyrins for photodynamic therapy: further progress and future perspectives
-
John Mack
(
Rhodes University
)
Storage & IO
Storage & IO
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming
-
Ovidiu-Cristian Marcu
(
University of Luxembourg
)
14:30
Evaluating and Characterizing Parallel I/O in HPC Systems: Best Practices and Future Directions
-
Sarah Neuwirth
(
Goethe-University Frankfurt
)
14:45
Break
Break
14:45 - 15:00
15:00
Break
Break
15:00 - 15:15
Break
Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:00 - 15:50
Contributions
15:00
A machine learning-unlearning model for big data privacy protection
-
Themba Ngobeni
(
CSG International
)
15:25
Monitoring private cloud control plane security with Wazuh
-
Stig Telfer
(
StackHPC Ltd
)
15:00 - 16:15
15:15
BoF: South African Modelling and Simulation Roadmap
BoF: South African Modelling and Simulation Roadmap
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
BoF: South African Modelling and Simulation Roadmap
-
Regina Maphanga
(
CSIR
)
Storage & IO
Storage & IO
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
SCTuner— an autotuner for I/O library
-
Bing Xie
(
ORNL
)
15:45
Leveraging New Interfaces to Low-Latency Storage
-
Luke Logan
(
Illinois Institute of Technology
)
16:15
Break
Break
16:15 - 16:30
16:30
4
4
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions
16:30
Chameleon: Taking Science from Cloud to Edge
-
Kate Keahey
(
ANL
)
17:30
Break
Break
17:30 - 17:45
17:45
5
5
17:45 - 18:45
Contributions
17:45
The value of Higher Performance Computing for decision-making in the National Policy Data Observatory during the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
Jabu Mtsweni
(
CSIR
)
Ashwell Jenneker
(
Industry
)
Friday, 3 December 2021
11:00
6
6
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions
11:00
KEYNOTE 6: The evolution of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud - responding to the demands of multi-disciplinary national research in unprecedented times.
-
Carmel Walsh
(
ARDC
)
12:00
Break
Break
12:00 - 12:15
12:15
12:15 - 13:30
Contributions
12:15
Practical Illustrations of Data-Driven Solutions for Societal Challenges
-
Kassim Mwitondi
(
Sheffield Hallam University
)
12:40
Research Data Services – The Maturation Talk
-
Isak van der Walt
(
University of Pretoria
)
13:05
Building local communities of practice
-
Niklas Zimmer
(
University of Cape Town
)
6
6
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
Regional and coastal ocean modelling: toward an operational system for well-informed decision making
-
Jennifer Veitch
(
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
)
12:45
Bioinformatics for vegetable breeding at Starke Ayres
-
Godwin Mafireyi
(
Starke Ayres
)
12:15 - 13:15
Contributions
12:15
Prime Number algorithm for massively parallel Processor-in-memory machine
-
Andy Rabagliati
(
UCT
)
12:45
FPGA Acceleration of GWAS Permutation Testing
-
Yaniv Swiel
(
Wits
)
13:15
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
13:30
Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
Life and Times of the Ilifu OpenStack Cluster
-
Rob Simmonds
(
University of Cape Town
)
14:25
Meeting New Challenges and Seizing New Opportunities using Research Data
-
Hanlie Smuts
(
University of Pretoria
)
7
7
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
Using genome-resolved metagenomics to understand microbial contributions to ecosystem functioning
-
Thulani Makhalanyane
(
University of Pretoria
)
14:30
Computational chemistry methods in understanding the properties of porous materials
-
Catharine Esterhuysen
(
Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University
)
BoF Deep Learning Institute
BoF Deep Learning Institute
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions
14:00
BoF: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute – bringing AI and GPU-accelerated computing to Academic Institutions
-
Kevin McFall
(
NVIDIA
)
15:00
Break
Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
Distributed Machine Learning or Federated Learning for Big Data
-
Nelishia Pillay
(
University of Pretoria
)
15:40
Developments in African Cyber-infrastructure to Support Open Science – SmartBotswana Initiative and A Case For A Botswana Open Science Platform
-
Tshiamo Motshegwa
(
University Of Botswana
)
8
8
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
Improved COVID-19 classification of cough audio
-
Thomas Niesler
(
University of Stellenbosch
)
15:45
Understanding metal losses during furnace tapping operations using HPC
-
Quinn Reynolds
(
Mintek
)
BoF Online Education: Surprises & Insights
BoF Online Education: Surprises & Insights
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions
15:15
Online Education: Surprises and Insights
-
Bryan Johnston
(
CHPC
)
Verena Ras
(
University of Cape Town ; H3ABioNet
)
16:15
Break
Break
16:15 - 16:30
16:30
7
7
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions
16:30
KEYNOTE 7: A Pivot of HPC towards Memory-Centric Computers for AI
-
Thomas Sterling
(
Indiana University
)
17:30
Break
Break
17:30 - 17:45
17:45
Awards Ceremony & Closing
Awards Ceremony & Closing
17:45 - 19:45
Contributions
17:45
Awards Ceremony and Closing
-
Happy Sithole