UK National Open Hackathon - Day 1

Monday 27 Feb 2023, 09:00 → 17:00 UTC

Online

Open Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help computational scientists and researchers port, accelerate and optimize their applications on a variety of data center architectures including CPUs and GPUs. The event pairs participants with dedicated mentors experienced in programming and targeted application areas to realize performance gains and speedups using a variety of programming models, libraries, and tools. Representing distinguished scholars and preeminent institutions around the world, these teams of mentors and attendees work together to realize performance gains and speedups by taking advantage of parallel programming on GPUs. 

The UK National Open Hackathon, hosted by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in partnership with NVIDIA and OpenACC Organization, is designed for teams to work in productive sprint sessions with expert mentors. A wide variety of different projects are possible, for example:

•   Accelerating applications written in common languages - C/C++, Fortran, and Python.

•   Using OpenACC to gradually offload work to GPUs and incrementally improving the performance.

•   Identifying expensive kernels and porting them to NVIDIA® CUDA™

•   Profiling already GPU accelerated applications to find hotspots for further acceleration.

Apply to attend here:

https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0C5e000005V6EDEA0/se000151