The TPC26 hackathon is part of the Open Hackathon program. An Open Hackathon is a multi-day, intensive hands-on event that helps computational and data scientists, researchers, and developers port, accelerate and optimize their real-world AI and HPC projects on a variety of data center architectures.
The TPC26 hackathon will pair participants with dedicated programming mentors or domain experts experienced in targeted application areas to work collaboratively. This mentoring enables participants to explore various models, libraries, and tools to realize performance gains, improve accuracy, achieve speedups, scale to modern data centers, use the latest features of the accelerated computing stack, or outline a clear development roadmap.
The TPC26 hackathon has limited capacity and you must register by May 13 in order to take advantage of the entire process, including pre-Hackathon meetings on May 15 (Day 0) and May 22 (Day 1).
Team/mentor meeting, introductions, team matching, and cluster access
Teams work with mentors to advance their code and complete team introduction presentations
Teams continue development with mentor support; SCRUM presentations for progress updates and roadblocks
Teams finalize work and present outcomes, goals, challenges, and results from the hackathon
The TPC26 hackathon will be conducted by Sepideh Khajehei, Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA, Neil Getty, Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, Nick Jones, Director of Digital Research Innovation & Artificial Intelligence, University of Auckland, Miguel Vazquez, Principal Bioinformatics Platform Architect, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist, Argonne National Laboratory, and Manjot Singh, Open Hackathons Program Manager, NVIDIA.
are open to TPC members and invited guests.
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