Presenter

Bryan Johnston is a Senior Technologist in the Research Division of the Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa. Bryan leads the HPC Ecosystems Project which focuses on redistributing decommissioned first-tier HPC infrastructure to smaller, usually resource-constrained, institutions throughout the Southern African Development Community region; with clusters currently in more than thirty-five sub-Saharan sites. His team deploys the physical systems and shared software stack and trains users and System Administrators (in many cases, these are the sites' first HPC systems).

Bryan obtained a Master’s in Computer Science through Georgia Tech’s online programme and uses his experience to lead the efforts towards developing an HPC-related degree curriculum accessible to South African and regional universities.

He is currently involved in a number of national and international education-related initiatives, including contributing to the development of HPC Systems Administrator curriculum, serving as the Africa regional chair of the SIGHPC Education Chapter, chairing the regional Cyberinfrastructure workforce development and retention workstream and co-organising co-located community workshops alongside the SC conference series.

Bryan was the recipient of the 2024 HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for Outstanding Leadership in HPC, recognising his efforts towards building an international community for emerging HPC centres