The petaflop (PFLOP) machine has been built to process speeds of a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Floating point operations or flops are used in computing to calculate extremely long numbers.

The PFLOP machine is one of the CHPC’s projects to build high-performance computing and advanced data technologies in South Africa, with the aim of enhancing the country’s capacity to produce and disseminate knowledge.

Dr Thomas Auf der Heyde, the Department of Science and Technology’s Deputy Director-General: Research Development and Support, will deliver the keynote address. CHPC Director, Dr Happy Sithole, will speak about the value of high-performance computing in South Africa.

Source: South African Government.