Register for the 14th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography 2025.
Dates: 31 March 2025 – 4 April 2025
Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre
Visit: https://icshmo2025.com/
Registration closes on 28 February 2025
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) provides the South African research community with cloud and high-performance computing resources. As part of the resolutions from the CHPC’s National Conference in December, the centre is proud to announce that it will serve as the hub for access to physical quantum computing resources for its users.
We strongly encourage anyone interested in the following to reach out to us and register as a Principal Investigator for access to quantum hardware:
For more information, please contact info@chpc.ac.za.
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) team, a first time Student Cluster Competition entrant, beat nine other teams from universities across the country. The competition took place at the CHPC National Conference held at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre, Gqeberha.
The team will now progress to the international round where they will represent South Africa at International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
The winning CPUT team members are:
They will be joined by Kapil Ramlall from the University of the Witwatersrand and Lisa Pitsi from the University of the Western Cape to make up the ISC team of six.
Every year, the NHR-Graduate School seeks qualified international and national talents interested in pursuing a PhD project in HPC, numerical simulation, and AI/ML. Fellows will receive a three-year full-time fellowship and excellent supervision at one university of the NHR Alliance in Germany. For further information, please have a look at the NHR Graduate School image video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KlOzV8egsA.
The application deadline is September 15, 2024.
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Centre for High Performance Computing’s flagship human capital development program, the Student Cluster Competition is underway at the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) in Gqeberhra. The selection round received 198 applications from 13 South African universities. 80 students are working hard at NMU whilst 40 have joined online. 40 successful students will go through to the national round at the CHPC National Conference to be held at the Boardwalk Convention Centre, Gqeberha, 1 – 4 December 2024.
For more information on this competition, please visit: https://www.scc.chpc.ac.za/ .
