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SUMMARY:Co-designing Regional High-Performance Computing Ecosystems in Afr
 ica: A Pilot Focus on Kenya and West Africa
DESCRIPTION:Pauline Karega (University of Manchester, Bioinformatics Hub o
 f Kenya initiative)\n\nHigh-performance computing is becoming more importa
 nt for bioinformatics, genomics, and public health research. However, in A
 frica, its growth and use remain uneven, scattered, and poorly documented.
  This study examines current HPC capacity and access models in West, East,
  and Southern Africa, drawing on both published and grey literature to des
 cribe institutional clusters, national facilities, and collaborative platf
 orms. We find that, even with abundant computing power, access is governed
  by different institutional, project, and consortium models, which makes i
 t hard for regions to collaborate and for everyone to use these resources 
 equitably.\n\nWhile cloud computing is a solution, better, more coordinate
 d HPC systems remain crucial for research that requires large amounts of d
 ata. We propose a regional plan to improve HPC by connecting existing reso
 urces rather than creating new ones, linking large national centers with s
 maller institutional clusters through shared resources and access, spearhe
 aded by a community-led group. By incorporating community governance and b
 uilding skills into the codesign framework, the approach aims to make Afri
 can HPC a collaborative research network that aligns with both regional go
 als and global standards.\n\n
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