About the OCF

Background on JUAMI-OCF

The Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute Open Computing Facility (JUAMI-OCF) was pitched by the original founders Carlos Biaou (Univ. California-Berkeley), Brian lezzi (Univ. of Michigan), Paul Byaruhanga, Emmanuel Muhoozi, and Timothy Tibesigwa (Makerere University) at the 2018 JUAMI conference (photo below) and was established in 2019. The goal of JUAMI-OCF is to establish a virtual server with a repository of software, both licensed and open-sourced, to enable access to state-of-the-art design and analysis tools on a virtual machine with high processing power. Tangential to this goal is to create equitable access to computational resources for African researchers and foster international and interdisciplinary research through cross-border collaborative efforts. Since its establishment, JUAMI-OCF now has over 60 users from 20 institutions across 7 countries in East Africa and the United States who are studying a wide array of topics from sustainability assessment to biological and molecular modeling

Publications supported by the OCF

Richard, E.N., Kimwaga, R.J., A Two-Stage Based Life Cycle and Principal Component Analysis for Decision Support of Potential Municipal Solid Wastes Management Scenarios, Case study Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2023, 42(4):81-94 https://doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v42i4.946
Tibesigwa, T., et al. Life cycle assessment of biodiesel production from selected second-generation feedstocks. Cleaner Eng. & Tech 13, 100614 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2023.100614
Richard, E.N., Hilonga, A., Machunda, R.L. et al. Life cycle analysis of potential municipal solid wastes management scenarios in Tanzania: the case of Arusha City. Sustain Environ Res 31, 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42834-020-00075-3
Moore, G., Goucher-Lambert, K., Agogino, A.M. A Life Cycle Analysis of Laser Cutter Embodied Impacts. ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2020-22677