SC Exhibits - Exhibitor Details

• The George Washington University - PGAS
• Website: www.upc.gwu.edu
• Booth 136
• Research Exhibitor
• SC Exhibitor for 8 years

PGAS, The Partitioned Global Address Space, is a forum of academia, government and HPC industry with the mission to advance the research and development of and disseminate information about parallel programming languages that follow the PGAS programming model.

Presenting at SCExhibitor Forum

• Thursday    11:00-11:30    Room C124
• Happy Sithole (Centre for High Performance Computing)
• Contribution of Cyberinfrastructure to Economic Development in South Africa: Update on Developments


• High Performance Computing (HPC) has lead to success in innovations around the world. It is also becoming evident that these tools have advanced to a stage where they complement the traditional scientific investigations. South Africa had realised this opportunity and assessed how its challenges could be addressed through HPC. A co-ordinated cyberinfrastructure development approach by South Africa will be presented. Furthermore, scientific applications and technological developments that have benefited from this intervention will be disussed.

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