CaRCC Emerging Centers talk - HPC in Africa (revisited) 20 March - 6pm SAST

CaRCC Emerging Centers talk - HPC in Africa (revisited) 20 March - 6pm SAST

March 20, 2024   Talk,

 As a follow-up to the CaRCC presentation that we conducted in August 2023, the Campus Research Computing Consortium has invited members of the HPC Ecosystems Project back to share on our experiences and challenges with a discussion afterwards around deeper collaboration and engagements. 

20 March 18h00 SAST.

Details of the event are available here, including an ICS calendar link:

Emerging Centers Track, March 2024 – CARCC

Members of the HPC Ecosystems Project community in Africa will share more about their particular journeys through HPC, relating to their pain points, startup and sustainability challenges:

• The University of the Witwatersrand will present on their HPC Special Interest Group, a student-run organisation that focuses on general HPC education and student cluster competition preparation. The talk will give a broad overview of the history of the group, what it does, some of the success stories and future plans. (15 minutes)
  
  
• Rodgers Kimera will provide an overview of the Africa Centers of Excellence initiative currently in Uganda and Mali, started by NIAID. Rodgers will share an overview, a brief history, and some of the challenges and ambitions of the initiative (10 minutes).
  
  
• Berny Chaimite will provide an update on the state of HPC in MoRENet, Mozambique - following on from his initial overview in August (10 minutes). 
  
  
• Open discussion (20 to 25 minutes).

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Call coordinates are:

https://utah.zoom.us/my/carcc?pwd=TjFuR3VVM2d5eE5zWnEvWWxDTFBCUT09

Meeting ID: 824 051 8198

Password: 31415926

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Launch of OpenHPC 2.x virtual training lab - 16 February 2024

Launch of OpenHPC 2.x virtual training lab - 16 February 2024

January 17, 2024   Training,

Dear colleagues

The HPC Ecosystems Project team is pleased to announce the second virtual hands-on training lab for OpenHPC 2.x, scheduled to launch 16 February 2024 and concluding 4 March 2024.

The virtual lab will provide asynchronous instruction on deploying a 3-node OpenHPC 2.x cluster, with the deployment performed on your personal computer using Virtual Box. Upon the conclusion of the training, participants may opt to keep the virtual 3-node cluster on their system to facilitate future learning and training.

All instructions are delivered online and are available for self-paced learning. The entire virtual lab is expected to require approximately 15 to 20 hours of hands-on time to complete.

To find out more information or to register interest in participation, please go to https://events.chpc.ac.za/e/OPENHPC2-lab08.

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Launch of OpenHPC 2.x Virtual Lab - 29 September

Launch of OpenHPC 2.x Virtual Lab - 29 September

September 18, 2023   Training,

The HPC Ecosystems Project will be launching the first online training workshop for the newly created OpenHPC2.x training.

For more information, and to register, please go to https://events.chpc.ac.za/e/OPENHPC2-lab07,

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