IISER Pune along with OpenACC.org and in association with C-DAC and NVIDIA, under the aegis of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has organised:

GPU Application Hackathon 2018 (GAH - 2018)

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This hackathon event aims to investigate and implement latest parallelization and optimization techniques for up-scaling scientific application on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU's).

• This is a 5-day event: 1-day OpenACC introductory training, followed by a 4 day Hackathon.
• Selected teams will be assigned mentors and are expected to engage in technical discussions / presentations / deliberations / code performance evaluation with their respective mentor prior to the event.
• Participants will get access to compute cluster made available by C-DAC.
• On the last day of Hackathon, every team must present their learning and achievement as a technical report, a member of the team shall present it to all the attendees during the closing ceremony.
• Based on mutual agreement between mentor and the participants, further collaboration opportunities may be explored.

• Unique opportunity to get mentored for your application by well recognized domain experts across academia, research and industry from within and outside India
• Enhancing application performance within a short span of time
• Experimenting with application on latest architectures of computing system
• New levels of performance of your code, time with experts, ability to run on supercomputers may bring you closer to a new paper or talk
• Potential opportunity to further collaborate with mentors even after the event
• Certificate of participation

Target Audience: The event is intended for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of 3 or 6 developers along with either

(1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU acceleration,
or
(2) an application running on accelerators that needs optimization