CHPC South Africa wins Workforce Leadership Diversity Award

HPC Ecosystem Team with Tom Tabor, CEO: HPCWire

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) South Africa has won the Workforce Leadership Diversity Award following votes by readers of HPCWire, a leading high performance computing online publication.

The centre won the award for leading the re-purposing and re-deployment of high performance computing systems in Africa, a project done in collaboration with Texas Advanced Computing Centre, Cambridge University, Dell as well as the Departments of Science and Technology and of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa.

The project’s aim is for these retired systems to be re-used for training purposes and well as for academic research in research councils and in universities.

How to get to SC18, a pictorial description

First, you have to get a very nice letter of support from STEM-Trek…

On the day of travel you have get to, in my case, OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg where you find

Thirteen hours later you arrive at one of the biggest and best airports in the world, but which has the scariest home affairs officials, Frankfurt International Airport.

sdr — You wait outside your boarding gate for four hours, great view!

Another 12 hours later you land at Dallas Fort Worth International where you meet the the most friendliest airport Home Affairs official and you know you are gonna have a great time! You take a SuperShuttle to you home for the week.

dav — Your home is so beautiful you wanna cry, all American with a picket fence and all!

But it’s been about 30 hours of little to no sleep, you come crashing down…

Two days later, all energies back, jet-leg dealt with you find your way to the Dallas Convention Centre. You have a free train pass to the whole city!!!

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dav

You travel like a normal citizen, YEAY, ooh wait, is that a phone charging at a train station platform??? WOW, they’re going to hear about this in South Africa!

First session: Women in High Performance Computing, stay tuned!

The Journey Begins

Howdy y’all!

I’m so excited to be at the 30th anniversary of the Supercomputing Conference and to be in Dallas Texas, the Dallas I grew up knowing was on TV, but my mom knows more on that one :-). I’m Nox Moyake from the Centre for High Performance Computing in Cape Town, South Africa.

I will be sharing my experiences and thoughts of SC18 whilst exploring the big city of Dallas and the state of Texas!