Big Data and informatics: data@breakfast, 25th January 2019
BIG DATA AND INFORMATICS: DATA@BREAKFAST
You
are cordially invited to the data@breakfast event where we will
enjoy a delicious breakfast over an insightful learning session
discussing topics at the forefront of AI, big data, quantum computing,
machine learning and more.
Date: Friday, 25 January 2019
Time:7.30am - 8.30am
Venue: Council Chamber, Westville Campus
RSVP: ukzndatabreakfast@gmail.com
Please see attachment.
Title: Over a decade of High Performance Computing in South Africa
Speaker: Dr Daniel Moeketsi, Centre for High Performance Computing, CSIR, South Africa
Abstract
The
Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is part of the National
Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System of the government of South
Africa. It was established in 2007 by Department of Science and
Technology and is managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR). Its mandate is to provide world class computational
resources to research community across different fields of Science and
Engineering in the country; and also to drive human capital development
in field of high performance computing. Over the past 10 years, the
centre managed to significantly grow itself from a flagship project to a
more sustainable institution. In this presentation, I will share with
you in a nutshell temporal evolution of the centre since it was
established to date, with particular emphasis on human capacity
development in high performance computing and big data science.
Biography
Dr
Daniel M. Moeketsi: Senior Research Scientist responsible for
computational space physics at Centre for High Performance Computing
(CHPC) of CSIR, South Africa. He is one of the pioneer staff of the
Centre and in the past 11 years, Moeketsi contributed to the development
of Centre for High Performance Computing in South Africa. Moeketsi
received PhD in Space Physics from Rhodes University, SouthAfrica in
2008. His thesis was the first comprehensive study of impact of solar
activity on the upper atmosphere ionisation over South Africa. He worked
as research assistant at HartRAO’s Space Geodesy Programme during the
period of his PhD studies.
Moeketsi leads the Human Capacity
Development (HCD) and Outreach projects at CHPC. One of his HCD
initiatives is the annual CHPC Linux and Python School in 2011 for
science and engineering students in South Africa as part of capacity
building in High Performance Computing. This project has now being
expanded into Africa.
He is currently serve as Panel Member for the
NASA Postdoctoral Program. He was also invited to serve as panel member
for several NRF funding instruments/programs. He has published in peer
reviewed science journal, served as reviewer for local and international
journals, supervised postgraduate students in science, served as the
external examiner for postgraduates theses including being moderator for
examinations in physical sciences. His passion is to provide leadership
towards human capacity building in High Performance Computing in
Africa.
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22 January 2019
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