by NOX MOYAKE
The 5th Meeting of the BRICS Working Group on Research Infrastructure and Mega-science Projects visited the Centre for High Performance Computing this week. The meeting was organised by the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the support of the Department of Science and Innovation of South Africa. The group received a briefing on the work of the centre from CHPC Management and went on a guided tour of the facility, seeing: the data centre the cooling plant, the back-up power, the engineering lab to name a few. Areas of potential collaboration were also discussed with member states.