Helmholtz GPU Hackathon 2025
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and HIDA together with NVIDIA and OpenACC will co-organize the Helmholtz GPU Hackathon 2025 starting April 01 and concluding April 11.
GPU Hackathons provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI or HPC research under the guidance of expert mentors from national laboratories, universities and industry leaders in a collaborative environment.
Representing distinguished scholars and preeminent institutions around the world, these teams of mentors and attendees work together to realize performance gains and speedups using a variety of programming models, libraries, and tools.
The goal of the GPU Hackathon is for computational scientists to port, accelerate, and optimize their scientific applications to modern computer architectures, including CPUs, GPUs and other computing technologies. Participating teams should leave the event either with their applications accelerated and/or optimized on the latest supercomputing hardware or a clear roadmap of the next steps needed to leverage these resources.
The deadline for registration is Febuary 10, 2025!
Prerequisites
- Teams are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon.
- A minimum of 3 team members must participate throughout the entire event. Lack of complete participation will result in the entire team being excused.
- Projects brought to the event are required to have a license attached and detailed in the application. For more information on why licenses are important and how to obtain one, please use the following links:
Preparation
Event Format
The Helmholtz Open Hackathon will be hosted as a hybrid event. Days 0-1 (March 25 and April 01) will be held virtually, and Days 2-5 (April 08 - 11) in-person at the Forschungszentrum Jülichz. All communication before the event will go through Slack and email. This event will be conducted in the Central European Summer Time Zone. Attendees are responsible to cover their travel expenses.
Computer Resource
Attendees will be given access to a GPU cluster for the duration of the hackathon.
Attending the Hackathon
If your team is accepted for the hackathon, registration information will be provided along with mentor introductions and computational resource access. Accepted teams should:
- Register all team members for the event.
- Review the attendee guide.
Recommended
No advanced GPU skills are required, but it is helpful for teams to know the basics of GPU programming and profiling. We recommend familiarizing yourself with these concepts by accessing any of the no-charge GPU lectures, tutorials, and labs available to all participants. Please contact the organizers for more information to help you prepare for the hackathon.
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