First Biennial African Conference on Fundamental Physics and Applications

Session

High Performance Computing

4 Jul 2018, 11:00

Auditorium 1, Brahms Street (Namibia University of Science and Technology)

Conveners

High Performance Computing

• bruce becker (Meraka Institute)
• Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma (US))
• Robert Quick (Indiana University)

57. Developments in SADC Cyber-infrastructure for Open Data and Open Science: Opportunities in Space Sciences

Tshiamo Motshegwa (University of Botswana)

04/07/2018, 11:00

There are significant number of data (and compute) intensive projects and initiatives of National, regional and international consequence hosted or driven in Africa – including in the areas of earth and spaces sciences – for example, The Square Kilometre. In this area, Africa will host the largest high resolution radio telescope to do fundamental Astrophysiscs science as the continent has...

58. Python in Africa

Jessica Upani

04/07/2018, 11:25

I will talk about why researchers should care about Python. I will also talk about the different Python communities in Africa and how one can join the Python Namibia society. I will also talk about the importance of RSE (Research Software Engineers) support groups and the Carpentry workshops. I will also talk about the community aspect of Python in Africa and introduce PyCon Namibia.

95. Modern BigData technologies to store and access metadata for the ATLAS experiment

Dario Barberis (Università e INFN Genova (IT))

04/07/2018, 11:50

Structured data storage technologies evolve very rapidly in the IT world, driven by BigData projects. LHC experiments, and ATLAS in particular, select and use these technologies to store a wealth of metadata, balancing the performance for a given set of use cases with the availability, ease of use and of getting support, and stability of the product. We definitely and definitively moved from...

92. Modern BigData technologies to store and access metadata for the ATLAS experiment

Dario Barberis (Università e INFN Genova (IT))

High Performance Computing

Oral Presentation

Structured data storage technologies evolve very rapidly in the IT world, driven by BigData projects. LHC experiments, and ATLAS in particular, select and use these technologies to store a wealth of metadata, balancing the performance for a given set of use cases with the availability, ease of use and of getting support, and stability of the product. We definitely and definitively moved from...