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Sunday 1 Dec

Monday 2 Dec

Tuesday 3 Dec

Wednesday 4 Dec

Sunday 1 Dec

Start Time	End Time	Title	Session	Presenters	Venue
8:00	9:00	Registration			Tsitsikamma Main
9:00	10:30	Different Techniques of Force-field Derivation and Setting Up Molecular Dynamics (MD) Calculations at CHPC Using DL_POLY Code	Workshop 1	Cliffton Masedi	B2
9:00	10:30	Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Future Offshore Wind Energy Using Geospatial Intelligence	Workshop 2	Kgabo Humphrey T hamaga	Wood Rooms
9:00	10:30	TBA	Workshop 3	TBA	D1
9:00	10:30	CSC Students	Workshop 4	TBA	D2
9:00	10:30	SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting	SADC		C1
10:30	11:00	Break	Break
11:00	12:30	DL_POLY (part 2)	Workshop 1	TBA	B2
11:00	12:30	TBA	Workshop 2	TBA	D1
11:00	12:30	SDC Students	Workshop 3	TBA	D2
11:00	12:30	Climate (part 2)	Workshop 4	TBA	Rooms
11:00	12:30	SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting	SADC		C1
12:30	13:30	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	15:00	Windows Subsystem for Linux with GPU support for molecular dynamics simulations	Workshop 1	Krishna Govender	B2
13:30	15:00	Exploiting exascale HPC for materials modelling; UK’s Excalibur Project	Workshop 2	Scott Woodley, Thomas Keal, Marcello Puligheddu, Matt Smith, Alexey Sokol, Rajany KV	D2
13:30	15:00	A near real-time spatial monitoring and forecasting of wind energy using geospatial big data	Workshop 3	Phila Sibandze, Kgabo Humphrey Thamaga	Wood Rooms
13:30	15:00	Hands-On Practical Introduction to Quantum Computing	Workshop 4	Francesco Petruccione	D1
13:30	15:00	SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting	SADC		C1
15:00	15:30	Break	Break
15:30	16:15	Molecular Dynamics (part 2)	Workshop 1	TBA	B2
15:30	17:00	Practical QC (part 2)	Workshop 2	TBA	D1
15:30	17:00	Materials Modelling (part 2)	Workshop 3	TBA	D2
15:30	17:00	Wind energy (part 2)	Workshop 4	TBA	Wood Rooms
15:30	17:00	SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting	SADC		C1
17:00	18:00	Intermission
18:00	19:30	A deep learning-based wind energy turbines suitability location analysis and transferability	Workshop 1	TBA	Wood Rooms
18:00	19:30	Molecular Dynamics (part 3&4)	Workshop 2	TBA	B2
18:00	19:30	TBA	Workshop 3	TBA	D2
18:00	19:30	TBA	Workshop 4	TBA	Wood Rooms

Monday 2 Dec

Start Time	End Time	Title	Session	Presenters	Venue
07:00	08:00	Social / Wellbeing			Tsitsikamma Main
08:00	09:00	Registration			Tsitsikamma Main
09:00	09:05	Welcome	Keynote	Chair: Mr Mervyn Christoffels	Tsitsikamma Main
09:05	09:15	DSI Welcome	Keynote	Charles Mokonoto	Tsitsikamma Main
09:15	09:25	CSIR Welcome	Keynote	Lulama Wakaba	Tsitsikamma Main
09:25	09:45	NICIS Welcome	Keynote	Happy Sithole	Tsitsikamma Main
09:45	10:30	Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration: Towards Accelerated Impact – The Role of Being a Good Ancestor	Keynote	Warren Hero	Tsitsikamma Main
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	11:20	Digital Forensic Investigation and Linguistic Analysis of Cyber-crimes: A Systematic Review	ISSA	Mopati Bernerdict Kekgathetse (Virtual)	Wood Rooms
11:00	11:20	Simulating Potential Impacts of Solar Radiation Modification on African Climate	HPC Applications	Babatunde Abiodun	C1
11:00	11:20	Digital Twins for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Datacenters (HPE)	HPC Technology	Tim Dykes	D1
11:00	11:40	Building a Quantum-Ready Africa: Opportunities and Challenges	Special	Franchesco Petruccione	D2
11:20	11:40	Drug Design, Resistance and Metabolisms through CHPC	HPC Applications	Ozlem Tastan Bishop	C1
11:20	11:40	Privacy and Legal Implications Regarding the Processing of Honeypot Data	ISSA	Bahle Ngoma	Wood Rooms
11:20	11:40	AI next trends: the critical HW and SW marriage (Intel)	HPC Technology	Walter Riviera	D1
11:40	12:00	A new approach on a D-wave for obtaining thermodynamic properties of a solid solution.	Special	Scott Woodley	D2
11:40	12:00	Conceptual Model for taxation and regulatory governance among South African crypto asset holders	ISSA	Pardon Ramazhamba	Wood Rooms
11:40	12:00	Molecular Modelling in Research: From Basic Research Methods to Advanced Research	HPC Applications	Njabulo Gumede	C1
11:40	12:00	Dell AI Factory (Dell)	HPC Technology	Jacques Visagie	D1
12:00	12:20	Elevating Material Simulations with Open Source – From Consumer to Contributor	HPC Applications	Robert Warmbier	C1
12:00	12:20	The UK National AI Research Resource “AIRR”	Special	Paul Calleja	D2
12:00	12:20	Countering mobile application threats with a structured threat modelling approach	ISSA	Christoff Jacobs	Wood Rooms
12:00	12:20	Pinnacle Presentation (TBC)	HPC Technology	Roger Crighton	D1
12:20	12:40	Social Network Graphs in Email Forensics: Analysis of a Personal Email Dataset	ISSA	Riaal Domingues	Wood Rooms
12:20	12:30	Q&A		Q&A
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	13:50	The Impact and Benefits of Partnering for Operational Weather Forecast Continuity	HPC Applications	Stephanie Landman	C1
13:30	13:50	Guidance for the Creation of Management and Cost Accounting Computerized Information Systems: Assurance of Information Integrity and Flexibility	ISSA	Emile Westraadt	Wood Rooms
13:30	13:50	Solving a quadratic optimization problem by means of quantum computing using amplitude encoding	Special	Helarie Rose Medie Fah	D2
13:30	13:50	H3C Presentation (TBC)	HPC Technology	Christo Cilliers	D1
13:50	14:10	Computational modelling of functional materials and chemical reactivity using molecular dynamics, DFT and wave-function-based approaches	HPC Applications	Lyudmila Moskaleva	C1
13:50	14:10	Using artificial intelligence techniques to standardize intelligent and automated generation of digital forensic reports.	ISSA	Idani Mulaudzi	Wood Rooms
13:50	14:10	Quantum Computing: a tool for simulating physical systems in photonics	Special	Isaac Nape	D2
13:50	14:10	Huawei Presentation (TBC)	HPC Technology	Collen Maphosa	D1
14:10	14:30	A Decentralized E-voting System Using Blockchain	ISSA	Daniel Ramotsoela	Wood Rooms
14:10	14:30	Unravelling plant-biotic/abiotic stress using computational biology and bioinformatics tools.	HPC Applications	Molemi Rauwane	C1
14:10	14:30	Data base search through quantum imaging	Special	Paola Andrea CONCHA OBANDO	D2
14:10	14:30	The Data Platform to Accelerate HPC Deployments (VAST Data)	HPC Technology	Kim Ormiston	D1
14:30	14:50	Fitting Classical Forcefields Programmatically for Application in Molecular Dynamics Simulations	HPC Applications	Kenneth Kgatwane	C1
14:30	14:50	NVIDIA Accelerated Computing (NVIDIA)	HPC Technology	Belinda Leigh Duke	D1
14:30	14:50	Changes in Observed Internet Background Radiation Traffic in the 155/8 netblock	ISSA	Barry Irwin	Wood Rooms
14:30	14:50	Training phase masks for diffractive networks / Emulating quantum computing with optical matrix multiplication	Special	Hadrian Bezuidenhout, Mwezi Koni	D2
14:50	15:00	Q&A		Q&A
15:00	15:30	Break
15:30	15:50	A Brief Tour of Your Data Center Future	Keynote	Dan Olds	Tsitsikamma Main
15:50	17:00	Industry Inquisition	Keynote	Dan Olds	Tsitsikamma Main
17:00	17:45	Challenges and Opportunities of HPC in the age of AI	Keynote	Utz-Uwe Haus	Tsitsikamma Main
17:45	18:00	Intermission
18:00	19:30	Conference Dinner			Tsitsikamma Main

Tuesday 3 Dec

Start Time	End Time	Title	Session	Presenters	Venue
06:00	07:00	Social / Wellbeing	Walk	Mervyn Christoffels	Front of City Lodge hotel
08:00	09:00	Registration			Tsitsikamma Main
09:00	09:45	Building global federated infrastructure in the R&E community	Keynote	Licia Florio	Tsitsikamma Main
09:45	10:30	Cyber Intelligence at Scale: Risk Evaluation of DNS as Critical infrastructure	Keynote	Barry Irwin	Tsitsikamma Main
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	11:20	Turbomachinery Modelling on the CHPC	HPC Applications	Johan van der Spuy	C1
11:00	11:20	A chatbot LLM based access control mechanism	ISSA	Christian Still	Wood Rooms
11:00	11:30	Collaboration and Resource Sharing Among SADC Institutions: Are NRENs Supporting These Initiatives?	SA NREN	Frank Seth	D2
11:00	11:20	Bridging the Digital Divide with Cloud-Hosted Geo-Location Spectrum Databases	HPC Technology	Luzango Mfupe	D1
11:00	11:20	A multifaceted approach to the IS ecosystems implementation exploring multiple Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks	Special	Ricardo Harry	B2
11:20	11:40	High Resolution Modelling of Tropical Cyclone Characteristics using the Lengau Cluster	HPC Applications	Jessica Steinkopf	C1
11:20	11:40	Image based analysis and crop prediction using smartphone.	HPC Technology	Lindokuhle Mdletshe	D1
11:20	11:40	Enhancing Forensic Readiness through an Integrated Approach to Fraud Risk Management throughout the Digital Transformation Lifecycle	ISSA	Antonio Pooe	Wood Rooms
11:20	11:40	Building NICIS’ Cloud: Localising the Cloud Platform	Special	David Macleod	B2
11:30	12:00	Ubuntunet Alliance – For Research & Education Networking	SA NREN	Eliakim Okundi	D2
11:40	12:00	Density functional theory of thermoelectric properties of graphene	HPC Applications	Moshibudi Ramoshaba	C1
11:40	12:00	OpenStack Adoption at CHPC: Advancing AFIS and Emerging DevOps Projects Through Scalable Cloud Solutions	HPC Technology	Kirodh Boodhraj	D1
11:40	12:00	Solving the Privacy and Security Challenge using ZKP: Its Positive Impact on the Economy	ISSA	Siphelele Myaka	Wood Rooms
11:40	12:00	Guiding the adoption of Generative AI and Next Generation NLP	Special	Avi Moodley, Privolen Naidoo	B2
12:00	12:20	Multiscale modelling of chemical systems on HPC and quantum computers	HPC Applications	Thomas Keal	C1
12:00	12:20	Biometric authentication: Stress as a factor in keystroke dynamics	ISSA	Monique Mac Donald	Wood Rooms
12:00	12:20	Infrastructure consideration for Science Engagement Information Management Systems on CHPC	HPC Technology	Muzi Matyila	D1
12:00	12:20	Leveraging Hybrid Cloud, HPC and Quantum Computing Resources	Special	Nyameko Lisa	B2
12:00	12:30	MaREN – Malawi Research and Education Network	SA NREN	Solomon Dindi	D2
12:20	12:30	Q&A		Q&A
12:20	12:30	An Emerging Leadership Paradigm for Navigating a Rapidly Changing World	Special	Mervyn Christoffels	B2
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	13:50	Engineering Strategies for Perovskites Materials	HPC Applications	Regina Maphanga	C1
13:30	13:50	Smoke Signals: Analysing and Decoding Quiet Quitting and Burnout Among Cybersecurity Professionals	ISSA	Michael De Jager	Wood Rooms
13:30	14:00	High-Performance Packet Processing with Programmable Data Planes	SA NREN	Ruan de Clercq	D2
13:30	13:35	HPC Education BoF: Intro	HPC Technology	Bryan Johnston	D1
13:35	13:45	HPC Education BoF: Overview of Wits HPC	HPC Technology		D1
13:45	13:55	HPC Education BoF: Overview of new local HPC course	HPC Technology		D1
13:50	14:10	Cosmology with radio telescopes: finding a needle in the datastack	HPC Applications	Mario Santos	C1
13:50	14:10	Profiling Prominent Ransomware Threat Actors	ISSA	Hendrik Tjaart Pelser	Wood Rooms
13:55	14:35	HPC Education BoF: Are You Doing Science?	HPC Technology	Jay Lofstead	D1
14:00	14:30	The way forward with Nokia	SA NREN	Craig Robert Taylor	D2
14:10	14:30	1KSA – Decoding South Africa’s Biodiversity	HPC Applications	Patricia Swart	C1
14:10	14:30	Contextual Factors Influencing the Cybersecurity Commitment of Government Institutions in Developing Countries	ISSA	Teofelus Tuyeni	Wood Rooms
14:30	14:50	HPC in all the right places – accelerating modelling workflows in metallurgical engineering applications	HPC Applications	Quinn Reynolds	C1
14:30	14:50	Trust Requirements and Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets	ISSA	Boitumelo Leotlela	Wood Rooms
14:30	15:00	AI-Native Networking for Modern Networks	SA NREN	Lunama Miankodila	D2
14:35	14:45	HPC Education BoF: ® Onboarding new first time HPC users	HPC Technology	John Poole	D1
14:45	14:55	HPC Education BoF: ® SIGHPC Committee	HPC Technology		D1
14:50	15:00	Q&A
14:55	15:00	HPC Education BoF: SIGHPC Edu	HPC Technology		D1
15:00	15:30	Break
15:30	17:00	HPC Applications: Users BoF	HPC Applications	Werner Janse van Rensburg	C1
15:30	15:50	A Rapid Review Cybersecurity Strategic Analysis Framework: The Case of Higher Education Institutions	ISSA	Rennie Naidoo	Wood Rooms
15:30	15:50	Reducing Data Movement Through Derived Quantity Generation	HPC Technology	Jay Lofstead	D1
15:30	15:50	South African Broadband Education Nertworks (SABEN)	SA NREN	Acres Michael	D2
15:50	16:10	Factors influencing Sensitive Data Protection practices in South African public schools	ISSA	Siyavuya Ntlale	Wood Rooms
15:50	16:10	Characterizing the I/O Performance of HPC Platforms Using the I/O Performance Evaluation Suite	HPC Technology	Luan Teylo	D1
15:50	16:10	Empowering Research and Education: An Introduction to TENET’s Trust & Identity Services	SA NREN	Wesley Barry	D2
16:10	16:30	Exploring the Cybersecurity-Resilience Gap: AnAnalysis of Student Attitudes and Behaviors in Higher Education	ISSA	Dirk Snyman	Wood Rooms
16:10	16:30	® I/O Insights and Recommendations for All	HPC Technology	Jean Luca Bez (Virtual)	D1
16:10	16:30	The South African National Research Network (SANReN)	SA NREN	Ajay Makan	D2
16:30	16:50	Lacking Balance? Assessing the Content and Coverage of Cyber Security Degrees	ISSA	Steven Furnell (Virtual)	Wood Rooms
16:30	16:50	® XIO: Towards eXplainable I/O using multi-layer monitoring solution for HPC Systems.	HPC Technology	Hari Hariharan Devarajan (Virtual)	D1
16:50	17:00	Q&A
17:00	17:15	Intermission
17:15	19:15	Poster Showcase (Cocktail Event)			Expo Hall – Lower Level

Wednesday 4 Dec

Start Time	End Time	Title	Session	Presenters	Venue
06:00	07:00	Social / Wellbeing	Walk	Mervyn Christoffels	Front of City Lodge hotel
08:00	09:00	Registration			Tsitsikamma Main
09:00	09:45	Intel AI in Action at the 2024 Olympics: Deployments and Benefits for your Business	Keynote	Jean-Laurent Philippe	Tsitsikamma Main
09:45	10:30	Tackling the Challenges of Reproducibility and Data Sharing in Computational Science	Keynote	Hakizumwami Birali Runesha	Tsitsikamma Main
10:30	11:00	Break
11:00	11:40	Empowering Southern Africa’s Researchers: Overcoming HPC Barriers with MATLAB Tools	HPC Technology	Marco Rossi	D1
11:00	11:20	HPC Applications Enabling Catalysis Design for Ammonia Decomposition to Produce Hydrogen	HPC Applications	Nomcebo Motsa	C1
11:00	11:20	SAWS Climate Services and Infrastructure	DIRISA	Dawn Mahlobo	D2
11:20	11:40	Computational Insights into Wind Patterns and Albatross Mortality	HPC Applications	Janine Schoombie	C1
11:20	11:40	Resource Scheduling and Allocation in HPC Cyberinfrastructure	DIRISA	Olalekan Samuel Ogunleye	D2
11:40	12:00	Data driven decision-making and policy for application in water and sanitation systems	DIRISA	Ridhwaan Suliman	D2
11:40	12:00	Acceleration of Electronic Structure Codes on Heterogeneous Hardware	HPC Applications	Marcello Puligheddu	C1
11:40	12:20	Sustainable AI Infrastructure: A Mandatory Pathway for Supercomputing Centres	HPC Technology	Maximilian Höb	D1
12:00	12:20	Rational design of porphyin and BODIPY analogues for biomedical applications: further progress and future perspectives	HPC Applications	John Mack	C1
12:00	12:20	DIRISA: A National Infrastructure for Research Data Management and Collaboration	DIRISA	Katlego W. Phoshoko	D2
12:20	12:30	Q&A
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	13:50	Exploration of future magnetic and cathode materials through computer-based simulations.	HPC Applications	Ndanduleni Lethole	C1
13:30	13:50	Data sharing, fabric and effective governance in the error of big data analytics	DIRISA	Mawande Mongo	D2
13:30	14:30	HPC Ecosystems BoF	HPC Technology	Coordinator: Mr Bryan Johnston	D1
13:50	14:10	Architectural Variations of Li2MnO3-Li0.69MnO2 Core-Shell Cathodes During the Cycling Process	HPC Applications	Raesibe Ledwaba	C1
13:50	14:10	Applications of 4IR on the diagnosis and management of STIs among key populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review	DIRISA	Claris Siyamayambo	D2
14:10	14:30	Computational challenges of running kilometer-scale Earth System Models in a developing country	HPC Applications	Tumelo Moalusi	C1
14:10	14:30	Crafting Open Data for Open Science: Technical Innovation and Data Management in Environmental Research — The SAEON Open Data Platform	DIRISA	Mark Jacobson	D2
14:30	14:50	A Secure Data-Centric Model for SMMEs Across Africa: Bringing Stakeholders Together	DIRISA	Sonwabo Mdwaba, Nobert Jere	D2
14:30	14:50	Developing a Sustainable and Performant GPU Implementation of Plane-Wave DFT	HPC Applications	Matthew Smith	C1
14:50	15:00	Q&A
15:00	15:30	Break
15:30	15:50	AcousNomaly: Learning to Detect Anomalies in Acoustic Telemetry Data using Machine learning and Deep Learning	DIRISA	Siphendulwe Zaza	D2
15:50	16:10	Empowering Data-Driven Research with AI Tools	DIRISA	Lungile Nkosi	D2
16:10	16:30	Obtaining and Using Data for Decision Support and Innovation in Resource-Constrained Environments	DIRISA	Audrey Masizana	D2
16:30	16:50	Transformer-based Sense Embeddings with Deep Learning Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Disambiguation	DIRISA	Hlaudi Masethe	D2
17:00	18:00	Intermission
18:30	19:15	The Third Pillar of HPC	Keynote	Thomas Sterling	B2
19:15	21:30	Awards Dinner			Tsitsikamma Main