Publications & Presentations

Academic articles, conference proceedings, presentations, and invited lectures.

Peer-reviewed (journal)

P. Bosscha, R. Coetzee, P. Terblanche, A.D. Gazendam, S. Isaac, “SmartFactory: the challenges of open and low-cost ICT in the small manufacturing industry,” South African Journal of Science, Vol. 102, No. 7-8, pp. 335-338, 2006.
A.D. Gazendam, F.W. Leuschner and R. Geldenhuys, “The design of a logical topology for a terabit wide-area optical network in South Africa,” SAIEE Africa Research Journal, Vol. 97, No. 4, pp. 281-285, 2006.
A.K. Bachoo, F. van den Bergh and A.D. Gazendam, “A comparison of data file and storage configurations for efficient temporal access of satellite image data,” South African Computer Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 66-74, 2009.
F. Van Den Bergh, K. J. Wessels, S. Miteff, T. L. Van Zyl, A. D. Gazendam, and A. K. Bachoo, “HiTempo: a platform for time-series analysis of remote sensing satellite data in a high performance computing environment,” International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 33, No. 15, pp. 4720–4740, 2012.

Non-peer-reviewed (journal)

A.D. Gazendam, J.J. Eksteen and L. Jones, “On the establishment of infrastructure for the South African national Centre for High Performance Computing,” in EngineerIT, Nov/Dec, pp. 14-16, 2007.
A.D. Gazendam, “Digital health technology expands possibilities for South Africans,” in ScienceScope, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 54, April 2007.
A.D. Gazendam, “C4: Enabling modelling and simulation through scientific computing,” in ScienceScope, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 82-85, March 2008.
A. Bachoo, F. van den Bergh and A.D. Gazendam, “Efficient temporal access of satellite image data,” in PositionIT, Nov/Dec, pp. 34-39, 2008.
A.D. Gazendam, “Virtualisation: it's practical,” in ITWeb TechForum, 10 Jun 2011.

Peer-reviewed (conference)

A.D. Gazendam and F.W. Leuschner, “Statistical clustering in the design of logical topologies for wide-area optical networks,” in Proc. of the 6th IEEE AFRICON Conference in Africa, George, South Africa, 2002, pp. 209-210.
A.D. Gazendam and Y. Kaka, “A business case for the sharing of processing power between 2.5G mobile phones,” in Proc. of the 7th IEEE AFRICON Conference in Africa, Gabarone, Botswana, 2004, pp. 349-352.
A.D. Gazendam, S. Isaac and P. Bosscha, “SmartFactory: An architecture for open and low-cost ICT in the small manufacturing industry,” in Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2005), Cape Town, South Africa, 2005, ISBN: 0-9584901-3-9 (CD).
A.D. Gazendam, J.J. Eksteen and L. Jones, “On the establishment of infrastructure for the South African national Centre for High Performance Computing,” in Proc. of the 8th IEEE AFRICON Conference in Africa, Windhoek, Namibia, 2007, ISBN 0-7803-8606-X (CD).
A.D. Gazendam, “Building and refining general purpose computing clusters in an emerging HPC oriented research environment,” in Proc. of the 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2008), Quebec City, Canada, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7695-3250-9 (CD).
A. Bachoo, F. Van Den Bergh, A.D. Gazendam, “A comparison of data file and storage configurations for efficient temporal access of satellite image data,” in Proc. of the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G), Cape Town, South Africa, 2008, ISBN 978-0-620-42117-1 (CD).

Non-peer-reviewed (conference)

A.D. Gazendam, “Scientific computing at CSIR,” presentation at SCAW 2004, Cape Town, 7 December 2004.
A.D. Gazendam, H. Madhoo and K. Subramoney, “Performance evaluation of idle-time processing by solving an embarrassingly parallel set of linear programming problems,” poster at the 12th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2005), Cape Town, South Africa, 2005.
P. Bosscha, L. Mboweni, R. Coetzee, S. Isaac and A.D. Gazendam, “SmartFactory: The challenges of open and low cost ICT in the small manufacturing industry,” paper at CSIR 2006 Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006.
A.D. Gazendam, P. Bosscha, S. Donovan, J. Haarhoff, U. Horn, C. Mahlase, K. Matthee, T. Naidoo, G. Snedden, H. van Niekerk, D. Vogt and J. Eksteen, “An inclusive vision for high performance computing at the CSIR,” poster at CSIR 2006 Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006.
A.D. Gazendam, “The CSIR Cluster Computing Centre,” presentation at SCAW 2006, Cape Town, 6 April 2006.
A.D. Gazendam, “Centre for High Performance Computing - Phase 1 HPC system,” presentation at CHPC 2006, Cape Town, 27 November 2006.
A.D. Gazendam, G. Wells, Y. Forbes and J.J. Eksteen, “The pursuit of Happyness: Proposed usage policy and associated procedures for the Intel® Xeon® and Itanium®2 -based clusters of the Bio-Medical Informatics Centre,” presentation at CHPC 2007, Cape Town, 4 December 2007.
A.D. Gazendam, “Utilization in HPC: Thoughts and discussion,” presentation at SCAW 2007, Cape Town, 6 December 2007.
A.D. Gazendam, “Where South Africa should be putting its HPC focus,” presentation at CHPC 2008, Durban, 10 December 2008.
B. Becker, V. Ardizzone, T. Chani, C. Kuun, A.D. Gazendam, F. Wolmarans, L. Stravros, R. Oberholzer, H. Kriel, A. van Eck, A. Lewis, T. Carr and S. Murray, “The South African National Grid Initiative : From prototype to production,” presentation at 5th EGEE User Forum, Uppsala, 14 April 2010.
A.D. Gazendam, “Why software is king in a cloudy future,” presentation at SAOUG Oracle User Conference, Cape Town, 1 November 2010.
A.D. Gazendam, “Virtualisation: The journey to cloud computing,” presentation at the UbuntuNet Alliance CTO workshop, Johannesburg, 15 November 2010.

Invited lectures and panel sessions

A.D. Gazendam, “Perspectives on building the most powerful supercomputer in Africa,” presented at the monthly public meeting of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science (S2A3), Pretoria, 10 May 2007.
A.D. Gazendam, “High performance data processing: applications and technologies,” keynote presentation at CHPC 2008, Durban, 10 December 2008.
A.D. Gazendam, “A vision of a cloud dominated future,” sponsored keynote presentation at the Telecom Namibia ICT Summit, Windhoek, 8 October 2010.
“The future of the cloud,” panel member at Internet Solutions’ annual Internetix events, Johannesburg, 12 October 2011 and Cape Town, 21 October 2010.
A.D. Gazendam, “Towards cloud computing,” presented at the module 4 workshop of the SAFIPA ICT and Mobile Business Building Programme, Pretoria, 3 March 2011.
A.D. Gazendam, “Does the journey to cloud start with social media?” presented at Internet Solutions’ annual Internetix events, Johannesburg, 26 July 2011 and Cape Town, 21 July 2011.