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Centre for High Performance Computing 2021 National Conference

from Wednesday, 1 December 2021 (10:00) to Friday, 3 December 2021 (20:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021
AM
10:30
Keynote - Chair: Dr Werner Janse van Rensburg (CHPC) (until 11:15) ()
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
Keynote - Chair: Dr Werner Janse van Rensburg (CHPC) (until 12:00) ()
11:15 Globally Federated Supercomputing: InfiniCortex and other explorations - Dr Marek Michalewicz (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw)   ()
08:30 --- Empty ---
08:30 --- Empty ---
08:30 --- Empty ---
08:30
SADC - Anneline Morgan (SADC Secretariat) (until 10:15) ()
08:30 Welcome and Opening - Prof. Chomora Mikeka (Malawi)   ()
08:55 SADC Secretariat - Ms 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 ---
10:00 --- Informal Chat ---
10:00 --- Informal Chat ---
10:15 --- Break ---
10:30
SADC - Anneline Morgan (SADC Secretariat) (until 12:00) ()
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
HPC Applications - Chair: Mr Nkwe Monama (CHPC) (until 12:00) ()
11:00 Agriculture Empowered by SuperComputing - Mr 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 - Prof. Raesibe Sylvia Ledwaba (University of Limpopo)   ()
11:00
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Samuel Mabakane (CHPC) (until 12:00) ()
11:00 Introducing Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Bare-Metal, Secured Supercomputing Architecture - David Slama Mr Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA)   ()
11:30 Update on High Performance Computing at HPE - Dr Duncan Roweth   ()
11:00
SA NREN - Chair: Dr Renier van Heerden (SANReN) (until 12:00) ()
11:00 South African Universities in a Time Of Increasing Disruption - Dr Johan Coetzee (University of the Free State)   ()
11:30 Electronic signatures security - Prof. Sune Von Solms (University of Johannesburg)   ()
11:00
Keynote - Chair: Dr Anwar Vahed (DIRISA) (until 12:00) ()
11:00 KEYNOTE 6: The evolution of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud - responding to the demands of multi-disciplinary national research in unprecedented times. - Ms Carmel Walsh (ARDC)   ()
PM
12:00 --- Break ---
12:15
Keynote - Chair: Dr Marek Mechalewicz (UW) (until 13:15) ()
12:15 More Security for High Performance Computing with Intel in the New Era of Supercomputing - Dr Jean-Laurent Philippe (Intel)   ()
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
HPC Applications - Chair: Mr Mthetho Sovara (CHPC) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 The IPCC Assessment Report Six: modelling contributions from the CHPC - Prof. Francois Engelbrecht (Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
14:30 Computational chemistry and its application in pharmacy and drug development - Prof. Ponnadurai Ramasami   ()
14:00
NICIS Cloud Projects - Chair: Dr Ricardo Harry (CHPC) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 CSIR CHPC support during the National Department of Health Community Health Worker Covid-19 Household Screening Campaign - Mr Herman le Roux (CSIR)   ()
14:30 Smart Spectrum Sharing (S3): Toolboxes to Support Efficient Utilisation of the National Spectrum Resources - Dr Luzango Mfupe (CSIR)   ()
15:00 --- Break ---
15:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Krishna Govender (CHPC) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates: towards sensitive bio-sensing of infectious diseases - Dr Nikiwe Mhlanga (Dr)   ()
15:45 Computational Chemistry within the Laboratory of Applied Molecular Modelling at NWU - Prof. Cornie van Sittert (North-West University)   ()
15:15
NICIS Cloud Projects - Chair: Ms Zintle Sanda (CHPC) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 Processing longitudinal population data using CHPC - Dr Kobus Herbst (SAPRIN)   ()
15:45 Overview of http://CASABIO.org, The First Vertically Integrated Citizen Science Platfor - Dr David Gwynne-Evans (CASABIO.org)   ()
16:15 --- Break ---
16:30
Keynote - Chair: Mr Edward Rakate (CHPC) (until 17:30) ()
16:30 KEYNOTE 3: 4IR and opportunities within the next decade of compute: The era of Specialized and Confidential Compute - Mr Stephen Ozoigbo (ARM)   ()
17:30 --- Break ---
17:45
Keynote - Chairs: Mr Addison Snell and Mr Dan Olds (Intersect360) (until 19:20) ()
17:45 HPC Market Update and Insights from SC21 - Mr Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research)   ()
18:15 Vendor Crossfire: Mr Addison Snell and Mr Dan Olds - Addison Snell (Intersect360 Research) Dan Olds (OrionX)   ()
12:00 --- Break ---
12:00 --- Break ---
12:00 --- Break ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
12:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Charles Crosby (CHPC) (until 13:15) ()
12:15 The usefulness of high-performance computing in small scale hydropower technology: Investigating the hydrodynamic effects of hydrokinetic turbines through validated CFD models - Ms Chantel Niebuhr (University of Pretoria)   ()
12:45 Application of Computational Alchemy to screen alloys of alumina (Al2O3) as a catalyst support - Dr Cecil Ouma (HySA - Infrastracturte)   ()
12:15
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Ricardo Harry (CHPC) (until 13:15) ()
12:15 Trends and challenges in HPC from Dell Technologies - Mr Kris Buggenhout   ()
12:45 HPC Cloud Use Cases and Best Practices - Mr Fritz Ferstl (Altair)   ()
12:15
SA NREN - Chair: Dr Renier van Heerden (SANReN) (until 13:15) ()
12:15 The Internet of Things and Information Warfare - Brett van Niekerk (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   ()
12:45 The Lost Packet Warehousing Service - Dr Heloise Meyer (CSIR)   ()
12:45
SADC - Anneline Morgan (SADC Secretariat) (until 15:00) ()
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 ---
13:15 --- Lunch ---
13:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Cyber Security Symposium - Chair: Mr Meshack Ndala (CHPC) Chair: Ms Elizabeth Leake (STEM-Trek) (until 14:45) ()
13:30 Migration towards single healthy trackable and access digital identity - Mr Charles Sello Kungwane (City of Johannesburg)   ()
13:55 Ransomware: An unwanted Christmas present - Ms Taryn Woods (Dark Trace)   ()
14:20 Quantum machine learning and mobile device security - Mr Tawanda Chowuraya (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)   ()
14:00
HPC Applications - Chair: Mr Inus Scheepers (CHPC) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Infectious disease susceptibility in the context of African genetic diversity - Prof. Marlo Möller (Stellenbosch University)   ()
14:30 Rational design of Sn(IV) porphyrins for photodynamic therapy: further progress and future perspectives - Prof. John Mack (Rhodes University)   ()
14:00
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (SANDIA) (Sandia National Laboratories) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming - Dr 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 ---
15:00 --- Break ---
15:00 --- Break ---
15:00
Cyber Security Symposium - Chair: Mr Meshack Ndala (CHPC) Chair: Ms Elizabeth Leake (STEM-Trek) (until 15:50) ()
15:00 A machine learning-unlearning model for big data privacy protection - Mr Themba Ngobeni (CSG International)   ()
15:25 Monitoring private cloud control plane security with Wazuh - Stig Telfer (StackHPC Ltd)   ()
15:00
Empty (until 16:15) ()
15:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Prof Regina Maphanga (CSIR) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 BoF: South African Modelling and Simulation Roadmap - Prof. Regina Maphanga (CSIR)   ()
15:15
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (SANDIA) (Sandia National Laboratories) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 SCTuner— an autotuner for I/O library - Dr Bing Xie (ORNL)   ()
15:45 Leveraging New Interfaces to Low-Latency Storage - Luke Logan (Illinois Institute of Technology)   ()
16:15 --- Break ---
16:30
Keynote - Chair: Prof Michela Taufer (UTK) (until 17:30) ()
16:30 Chameleon: Taking Science from Cloud to Edge - Dr Kate Keahey (ANL)   ()
17:30 --- Break ---
17:45
Keynote - Chair: Ms Dorah Thobye (CHPC) (until 18:45) ()
17:45 The value of Higher Performance Computing for decision-making in the National Policy Data Observatory during the COVID-19 pandemic. - Dr Jabu Mtsweni (CSIR) Mr Ashwell Jenneker (Industry)   ()
12:00 --- Break ---
12:15
DIRISA -Dr Chair: Dr Dale Peters (UCT) (until 13:30) ()
12:15 Practical Illustrations of Data-Driven Solutions for Societal Challenges - Kassim Mwitondi (Sheffield Hallam University)   ()
12:40 Research Data Services – The Maturation Talk - Mr Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria)   ()
13:05 Building local communities of practice - Niklas Zimmer (University of Cape Town)   ()
12:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Charles Crosby (CHPC) (until 13:15) ()
12:15 Regional and coastal ocean modelling: toward an operational system for well-informed decision making - Dr Jennifer Veitch (South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON))   ()
12:45 Bioinformatics for vegetable breeding at Starke Ayres - Mr Godwin Mafireyi (Starke Ayres)   ()
12:15
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Sean Murray (CHPC) (until 13:15) ()
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 ---
13:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
DIRISA - Chair: Dr Paul Laughton (UP) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Life and Times of the Ilifu OpenStack Cluster - Prof. Rob Simmonds (University of Cape Town)   ()
14:25 Meeting New Challenges and Seizing New Opportunities using Research Data - Prof. Hanlie Smuts (University of Pretoria)   ()
14:00
HPC Applications - Chair: Dr Anton Lopis (CHPC) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Using genome-resolved metagenomics to understand microbial contributions to ecosystem functioning - Prof. Thulani Makhalanyane (University of Pretoria)   ()
14:30 Computational chemistry methods in understanding the properties of porous materials - Prof. Catharine Esterhuysen (Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University)   ()
14:00
HPC Technology - Chair: Dr Kevin McFall (Nvidia) (until 15:00) ()
14:00 BoF: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute – bringing AI and GPU-accelerated computing to Academic Institutions - Kevin McFall (NVIDIA)   ()
15:00 --- Break ---
15:15
DIRISA - Chair: Dr Paul Laughton (UP) (until 16:15) ()
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)   ()
15:15
HPC Applications - Chair: Mr Binjamin Barsch (CHPC) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 Improved COVID-19 classification of cough audio - Prof. Thomas Niesler (University of Stellenbosch)   ()
15:45 Understanding metal losses during furnace tapping operations using HPC - Dr Quinn Reynolds (Mintek)   ()
15:15
HPC Technology - Chair: Mr Bryan Johnston (Chair) (until 16:15) ()
15:15 Online Education: Surprises and Insights - Verena Ras (University of Cape Town ; H3ABioNet) Bryan Johnston (CHPC)   ()
16:15 --- Break ---
16:30
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (NICIS) (until 17:30) ()
16:30 KEYNOTE 7: A Pivot of HPC towards Memory-Centric Computers for AI - Prof. Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)   ()
17:30 --- Break ---
17:45
Keynote - Chair: Dr Happy Sithole (NICIS) (until 19:45) ()
17:45 Awards Ceremony and Closing - Dr Happy Sithole   ()
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