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EVENTS TIMELINE
Conference Schedule
Day 1 - 4 December 2023
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Session Type | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | ||||
| 09:00 | 10:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 1 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | MedeA part 1 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Materials Studio part 1 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Meeting 1 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 2 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | MedeA part 2 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Materials Studio part 2 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Meeting 2 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Intel Workshop part 1 - Software | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | MedeA part 3 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Materials Studio part 3 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Meeting 3 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 16:15 | Intel Workshop part 2 - Hardware | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 16:15 | 17:00 | Intel Workshop part 3 - AI Careers | ||||
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | MedeA part 4 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Materials Studio part 4 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Meeting 4 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 17:00 | 17:00 | End of Day | End of Day |
Day 2 - 5 December 2023
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:30 | 08:30 | Registration | |||
| 08:30 | 08:35 | CSIR Welcoming Remarks | Dr Lulama Wakaba | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:35 | 08:45 | DSI Welcoming Remarks | Dr Daniel Mokhohlane | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:45 | 08:55 | NICIS Overview | Dr Happy Sithole | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:55 | 09:00 | DIRISA Highlights | Dr Anwar Vahed | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:00 | 09:05 | SANReN Highlights | Mr Sabelo Dlamini | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:05 | 09:10 | CHPC Highlights | Mr Mervyn Christoffels | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:10 | 09:50 | KEYNOTE 1: Resurrecting an Elephant Migration Route | Mr Marc Sherratt & Mr Sean Hensman | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:50 | 10:30 | KEYNOTE 2: Beyond Exascale – Federation, Workflows, and large-scale AI as the next frontier | Dr Utz-Uwe Haus | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | ® Roadmap of Quantum Computing in a South African Context | Prof Francesco Petruccione | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Enhancing Population Health Research Using SAPRIN HDSS Data Science Platform | Dr Molulaqhooa Maoyi | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | NGEI’s Initiatives from DSI Regarding the Sovereign Quantum Computing Decal Plan | Ms Coral Featherstone | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | CASABIO.org: The Citizen Science Platform for African Observations of Nature | Dr David Gwynne-Evans | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Leveraging Quantum Machine Learning for Enhanced Biophotonics Applications | Dr Kelvin Mpofu | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | TBC | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Materials research within the Excalibur Project: Is it time to exploit Quantum Computers? | Dr Scott Woodley | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | TBC | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Machine Learning in Cosmology | Prof Yin-Zhe Ma | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | DIPLOMICS: An Overview | Dr Patricia Swart | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Next DC Design for Generative AI workloads & HPC | Mr Pramod Venkatesh | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Unleashing the Cloud-Native Potential: Rethinking Research Cyber-Infrastructures with Kubernetes and Cloud APIs | Mr Peter van Heusden | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | From Grassroots to Greatness: Unleashing HPC Potential in Africa | Mr Nilesh Jain | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Building a Knowledge Democracy: The Deep Learning IndabaX Story | Ms Lydia de Lange | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | ® NITheCS: An Overview | Prof Francesco Petruccione | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | ® Distributed Deep Learning in HPC: Challenges and Opportunities | Dr Albert Kahira | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | ® Computing for the ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider | Mr Sean Murray | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Chemistry & Materials Science SIG Meeting | Dr Krishna Govender | SIG | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | HPC Market Overview | Mr Dan Olds | General | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 15:50 | 17:00 | Industry Crossfire Panel Programme | Mr Dan Olds | General | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Intermission and Travel to Boma Braai | |||
| 17:30 | 20:30 | Boma Braai in the Bushveld | |||
| 20:30 | 21:00 | Travel back to Rest Camp |
Day 3 - 6 December
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | |||
| 09:00 | 09:45 | KEYNOTE 3: The Software-Defined Supercomputer | Mr Stig Telfer | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | KEYNOTE 4: TBC | Mr Stein Mkandawire | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Land surface model TerM: design, applications and HPC aspects | Dr Victor Stepanenko | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | The Rooibos Genome Program: computational requirements | Dr Uljana Hesse | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Introduction: Welcome and introduction to the ISSA/SANReN track. | Dr Renier van Heerden | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | ® The Development of An Adaptive Mesh Atmospheric Model - Fluidity-Atmosphere | Dr Jinxi Li | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Engineering Strategies for Perovskites: From DFT to Machine Learning | Prof Regina Maphanga | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Ransomware Detection Using PE Entropy | Mr Avinash Singh | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | TBC | Dr Fabio Porto | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Variable resolution numerical weather modelling on the CHPC | Ms Patience Tlangelani Mulovhedzi | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Continuous Authentication on Android mobile devices | Mr Christopher Njaravani | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | ® Integrating WRF and Hydrology Models for Improved Urban Flood Forecasting in Pune using HPC: A Comprehensive Approach for the Indian Metropolis | Dr Manoj Khare | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | A theoretical investigation of decorated novel triazoles as organic dyes in dye sensitized solar cells | Mr Louis-Charl Coetzee | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Realtime Risk Assessment in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks | Mr Henry Gidudu | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | Numerical simulation of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on HPC systems | Dr Evgeny Mortikov | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:15 | 12:30 | ® South Africa’s Operational Ocean Forecasting Developments | Dr Giles Fearon | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | ® Enable Fundamental Cacheability for Distributed Deep Learning Training | Mr Ali Butt | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | ® A Shelter When the Storms Hit: How the CHPC Supports the South African Weather Service | Ms Stephanie Landman | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) | Mr Eunice N. K. Hammond | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | ® Mango-IO: I/O Metrics Consistency Analysis | Ms Radita Liem | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Effective use of high performance computing resources in computational chemistry and materials science | Dr Krishna Govender | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Model for the Generation of Digital Forensic Reports using AI Techniques | Idani Mulaudzi | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | ® I/O behavior of scientific deep learning workloads | Hariharan Devarajan | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Building HPC modelling ecosystems for furnace tapping problems | Dr Quinn Reynolds | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | A State-of-the-Art Review of Digital Forensics Tools Pertaining to Covert Channel Detection | Ms Kyra Coetzee | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Data Management on HPC Workloads: Accelerating outcomes while preserving data for future examination and collaboration | Mr Miguel Castro | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Research Software Engineering (RSE) groups in the UK and their relationship to HPC facilities | Dr Kim Martin | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Machine Learning Based Analysis of Dark Web for Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence | Dr Olalekan Ogunleye | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Emerging Leadership Practices in deploying Digital Research Infrastructure in Africa | Mr Mervyn Christoffels | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Dynamic downscaling of CMIP6 model outputs: usage of the Lengau Cluster by the Agrometeorology division of Agricultural Research Council | Dr Sarah Roffe | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Towards the development of a digital forensic readiness model for 5G NFV environments | Sheunesu Makura | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | The influence of national culture dimensions on Agile roles in the South African Software Development Context | Mr Kirwin Matthews | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | DFT studies of Iron at extreme temperature and pressure conditions, metal oxides and dopant-induced magnetization in a two-dimensional material | Dr Abdulrafiu Tunde Raji | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | A secure storage architecture for hosting digital forensic data in the public cloud environment | Vusani Mathoho | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | A multifaceted framework of understanding and synthesises of the digital artefacts and its impact on the ICT ecosystem | Dr Ricardo Harry | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Accelerating South Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems for antiviral drug discovery using computational modelling | Dr Tovhowani Ramulongo | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | TBC | Thabo Tshabalala | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | TBC | TBC | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Simulation of the eThekwini Heat Island in South Africa | Mr T. Robert Maisha | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Overview of the South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) | Ajay Makan | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:50 | 17:20 | Intermission | |||
| 17:20 | 19:20 | Coctails and Poster Display |
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Day 1 - 4 December 2023
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Session Type | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | ||||
| 09:00 | 10:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 1 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | MedeA part 1 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Materials Studio part 1 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Meeting 1 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 2 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | MedeA part 2 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Materials Studio part 2 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Meeting 2 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Intel Workshop part 1 - Software | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | MedeA part 3 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Materials Studio part 3 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Meeting 3 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 16:15 | Intel Workshop part 2 - Hardware | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 16:15 | 17:00 | Intel Workshop part 3 - AI Careers | ||||
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | MedeA part 4 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Materials Studio part 4 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Meeting 4 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 17:00 | 17:00 | End of Day | End of Day |
Day 2 - 5 December 2023
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:30 | 08:30 | Registration | |||
| 08:30 | 08:35 | CSIR Welcoming Remarks | Dr Lulama Wakaba | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:35 | 08:45 | DSI Welcoming Remarks | Dr Daniel Mokhohlane | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:45 | 08:55 | NICIS Overview | Dr Happy Sithole | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 08:55 | 09:00 | DIRISA Highlights | Dr Anwar Vahed | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:00 | 09:05 | SANReN Highlights | Mr Sabelo Dlamini | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:05 | 09:10 | CHPC Highlights | Mr Mervyn Christoffels | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:10 | 09:50 | KEYNOTE 1: Resurrecting an Elephant Migration Route | Mr Marc Sherratt & Mr Sean Hensman | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:50 | 10:30 | KEYNOTE 2: Beyond Exascale – Federation, Workflows, and large-scale AI as the next frontier | Dr Utz-Uwe Haus | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | ® Roadmap of Quantum Computing in a South African Context | Prof Francesco Petruccione | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Enhancing Population Health Research Using SAPRIN HDSS Data Science Platform | Dr Molulaqhooa Maoyi | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | NGEI’s Initiatives from DSI Regarding the Sovereign Quantum Computing Decal Plan | Ms Coral Featherstone | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | CASABIO.org: The Citizen Science Platform for African Observations of Nature | Dr David Gwynne-Evans | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Leveraging Quantum Machine Learning for Enhanced Biophotonics Applications | Dr Kelvin Mpofu | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | TBC | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Materials research within the Excalibur Project: Is it time to exploit Quantum Computers? | Dr Scott Woodley | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | TBC | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Machine Learning in Cosmology | Prof Yin-Zhe Ma | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | DIPLOMICS: An Overview | Dr Patricia Swart | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Next DC Design for Generative AI workloads & HPC | Mr Pramod Venkatesh | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Unleashing the Cloud-Native Potential: Rethinking Research Cyber-Infrastructures with Kubernetes and Cloud APIs | Mr Peter van Heusden | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | From Grassroots to Greatness: Unleashing HPC Potential in Africa | Mr Nilesh Jain | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Building a Knowledge Democracy: The Deep Learning IndabaX Story | Ms Lydia de Lange | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | ® NITheCS: An Overview | Prof Francesco Petruccione | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | ® Distributed Deep Learning in HPC: Challenges and Opportunities | Dr Albert Kahira | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | ® Computing for the ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider | Mr Sean Murray | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Chemistry & Materials Science SIG Meeting | Dr Krishna Govender | SIG | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | HPC Market Overview | Mr Dan Olds | General | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 15:50 | 17:00 | Industry Crossfire Panel Programme | Mr Dan Olds | General | Ndlopfu Hall (Skukuza) |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Intermission and Travel to Boma Braai | |||
| 17:30 | 20:30 | Boma Braai in the Bushveld | |||
| 20:30 | 21:00 | Travel back to Rest Camp |
Day 3 - 6 December
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | |||
| 09:00 | 09:45 | KEYNOTE 3: The Software-Defined Supercomputer | Mr Stig Telfer | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | KEYNOTE 4: TBC | Mr Stein Mkandawire | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Land surface model TerM: design, applications and HPC aspects | Dr Victor Stepanenko | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | The Rooibos Genome Program: computational requirements | Dr Uljana Hesse | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Introduction: Welcome and introduction to the ISSA/SANReN track. | Dr Renier van Heerden | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | ® The Development of An Adaptive Mesh Atmospheric Model - Fluidity-Atmosphere | Dr Jinxi Li | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Engineering Strategies for Perovskites: From DFT to Machine Learning | Prof Regina Maphanga | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Ransomware Detection Using PE Entropy | Mr Avinash Singh | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | TBC | Dr Fabio Porto | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Variable resolution numerical weather modelling on the CHPC | Ms Patience Tlangelani Mulovhedzi | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Continuous Authentication on Android mobile devices | Mr Christopher Njaravani | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | ® Integrating WRF and Hydrology Models for Improved Urban Flood Forecasting in Pune using HPC: A Comprehensive Approach for the Indian Metropolis | Dr Manoj Khare | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | A theoretical investigation of decorated novel triazoles as organic dyes in dye sensitized solar cells | Mr Louis-Charl Coetzee | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Realtime Risk Assessment in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks | Mr Henry Gidudu | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | Numerical simulation of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on HPC systems | Dr Evgeny Mortikov | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:15 | 12:30 | ® South Africa’s Operational Ocean Forecasting Developments | Dr Giles Fearon | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | ® Enable Fundamental Cacheability for Distributed Deep Learning Training | Mr Ali Butt | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | ® A Shelter When the Storms Hit: How the CHPC Supports the South African Weather Service | Ms Stephanie Landman | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) | Mr Eunice N. K. Hammond | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | ® Mango-IO: I/O Metrics Consistency Analysis | Ms Radita Liem | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Effective use of high performance computing resources in computational chemistry and materials science | Dr Krishna Govender | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Model for the Generation of Digital Forensic Reports using AI Techniques | Idani Mulaudzi | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | ® I/O behavior of scientific deep learning workloads | Hariharan Devarajan | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Building HPC modelling ecosystems for furnace tapping problems | Dr Quinn Reynolds | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | A State-of-the-Art Review of Digital Forensics Tools Pertaining to Covert Channel Detection | Ms Kyra Coetzee | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Data Management on HPC Workloads: Accelerating outcomes while preserving data for future examination and collaboration | Mr Miguel Castro | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Research Software Engineering (RSE) groups in the UK and their relationship to HPC facilities | Dr Kim Martin | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Machine Learning Based Analysis of Dark Web for Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence | Dr Olalekan Ogunleye | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Questions | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Emerging Leadership Practices in deploying Digital Research Infrastructure in Africa | Mr Mervyn Christoffels | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Dynamic downscaling of CMIP6 model outputs: usage of the Lengau Cluster by the Agrometeorology division of Agricultural Research Council | Dr Sarah Roffe | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Towards the development of a digital forensic readiness model for 5G NFV environments | Sheunesu Makura | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | The influence of national culture dimensions on Agile roles in the South African Software Development Context | Mr Kirwin Matthews | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | DFT studies of Iron at extreme temperature and pressure conditions, metal oxides and dopant-induced magnetization in a two-dimensional material | Dr Abdulrafiu Tunde Raji | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | A secure storage architecture for hosting digital forensic data in the public cloud environment | Vusani Mathoho | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | A multifaceted framework of understanding and synthesises of the digital artefacts and its impact on the ICT ecosystem | Dr Ricardo Harry | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Accelerating South Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems for antiviral drug discovery using computational modelling | Dr Tovhowani Ramulongo | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | TBC | Thabo Tshabalala | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | TBC | TBC | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Simulation of the eThekwini Heat Island in South Africa | Mr T. Robert Maisha | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Overview of the South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) | Ajay Makan | SA NREN | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 16:50 | 17:20 | Intermission | |||
| 17:20 | 19:20 | Coctails and Poster Display |
Day 4 - 7 December
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | |||
| 09:00 | 09:45 | KEYNOTE 5: QA^HPC – The Quest for Quantum/AI Optimized HPC Workflow | Prof Liwen Shih | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | KEYNOTE 6: Scientific Data Democratization: Enabling Efficient Access and Analysis of Large-Scale Scientific Data | Dr Scott Klasky | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break & Poster Showcase | |||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Dell - Bringing AI to your Data | Mr Ryan Rautenbach | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in congenital heart disease and thrombosis: The role of high performance computing (HPC) | Prof Malebogo Ngoepe | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Enhancing Language Translation and Detection for Low-Resource Languages through Sequential and Transformer Models | Mrs Mahlatse Mbooi | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Boost Performance with Accelerated HPC and AI | Mr Claudio Polla | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Application of High-Performance Computing in Nanomedicine: Lipid based nanocarriers and biogenic nanoparticles | Dr Mpho Ngoepe | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Citizen Centric Data Democratisation Framework for Data Custodians in South African Higher Education | Prof Nobert Jere | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Supermicro Vendor Talk (Title to be confirmed) | Mr Roger Crighton | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Complexity vs. Clarity: Modelling Effects of Lancing into Process Material Through Furnace Tap-Holes | Mr Markus Erwee | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas | Ms Keneilwe Hlahane | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | TBC | TBC | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Projection of Droughts in Africa within different extents of global warming as performed on The CHPC’s Lengau Cluster | Dr Mohau Mateyisi | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Meteorological data then, now and the future | Dr Dawn Mahlobo | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Questions | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Discussions | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | VASTDATA Vendor Talk (Title to be confirmed) | Mr Scott Howard | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | BoF: CHPC Users Forum | Dr Werner Janse Van Rensburg | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Why Universities Must Embrace Digital Transformation | Prof Bhekisipho Twala | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Build diversified computing infrastructure, unleash data value, promote scientific, technological, and economic development | Mr Zekelman Zhang | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Navigating the Data Labyrinth: Empowering Libraries through Digital Literacy and Research Data Management | Mr Isak van der Walt | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is hosting Dawn, the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer | Dr Paul Calleja | Special | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | A Roadmap Towards Democratizing Data A Case for Botswana as a Developing Country | Dr Audrey Masizana | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | TBC | Special | Ndau + Nari | |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | DIRISA Service (SSO,DDT and DMP) | Mr May Maile | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Discussions | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 16:30 | BoF: Women in High Performance Computing South Africa (WHPC-South Africa) | Prof Khomotso Maenetja | HPC | Ingwe + Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 16:30 | Tape Library: NICIS-DIRISA Spectralogic Maktech Case Study | Mr Claude Fortune | DIRISA | Ndau + Nari |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Intermission | |||
| 17:00 | 17:45 | KEYNOTE 7: Bringing AI Everywhere | Mr Ahmed Al-jeshi | KEYNOTE | Ndlopfu Hall |
| 17:45 | 19:45 | Awards Ceremony | General | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 19:45 | 21:00 | Dinner | General | Ndlopfu Hall |
Speakers
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
Prof Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)
Prof Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California)
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Prof Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee)
Prof Yin-Zhe Ma (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Dr Kingsley Obodo (North West University)
Dr Matthew Lasich (Mangosuthu University of Technology)
Dr Pritika Ramharack (SA Medical Research Council)
Dr Sunita Kruger (University of Johannesburg)
Prof Matthew Adeleke (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Day 1 - 4 December 2023
| Start Time | End Time | Session Name | Session Type | Speaker | Categories | Room (Skukuza) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | ||||
| 09:00 | 10:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 1 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | MedeA part 1 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Materials Studio part 1 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Meeting 1 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | IBM Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning part 2 | Workshop 1 | Thembelihle Dlamini | Quantum Computing | Ingwe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | MedeA part 2 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Materials Studio part 2 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Meeting 2 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Intel Workshop part 1 - Software | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 1 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | MedeA part 3 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Materials Studio part 3 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Meeting 3 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Break | |||
| 15:30 | 16:15 | Intel Workshop part 2 - Hardware | Workshop 1 | Walter Riviera | HPC Technical | Ingwe |
| 16:15 | 17:00 | Intel Workshop part 3 - AI Careers | ||||
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Building an HPC Cloud with OpenStack - part 2 (repeat) | Workshop 2 | Stig Telfer | Cloud Infrastructure | Ndau |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | MedeA part 4 - Atomistic Simulations with MedeA, an integrated computational materials science and engineering software suite | Workshop 3 | David Reith | HPC Application | Mhelembe |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Materials Studio part 4 - Materials Studio Mastery: A One-Day Dive into Advanced Modeling and Simulation | Workshop 4 | Kingsley Obodo | HPC Application | Nari |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Meeting 4 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure | Cyber-Infrastructure | Ndlopfu Hall | |
| 17:00 | 17:00 | End of Day | End of Day |
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