JSC Hosted 2023 Helmholtz GPU Hackathon

In May, JSC hosted the 2023 Helmholtz GPU Hackathon, together with HZDR, HIDA, and OpenHackathons. The Helmholtz GPU Hackathons have been organized annually together with HZDR since 2016. This year, JSC hosted the event for the fourth time.

In the meeting rooms of PtJ, we welcomed about 80 participants for intensive three on-site days of analysing and improving GPU-enabled applications on the JSC supercomputers. Out of the nearly 20 teams who applied from a variety of domains and organizations – Helmholtz and beyond –10 were invited to the event. Each team was assigned two expert mentors, whom they met in the preceding virtual days of the Hackathon.

During the days on site, the teams profiled their applications, identified bottlenecks, and optimized data movement and hardware utilization as well as implemented new features and algorithms. In short meetings, they presented their statuses, progress, and persisting blockers. At the end of the event, summaries were given, in which most teams shared their (partial) successes in taming GPUs and their plans beyond the event.

Read more about the GPU Hackathon in the FZJ Blogs, and watch video statements from the participating teams at: https://go.fzj.de/blog-gpu-hackathon.

Contact: Dr. Andreas Herten

from JSC News No. 298, 15 September 2023