The OLCF GPU Hackathon Series: The Story Behind Advancing
Scientific Applications with a Sustained Impact
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Event Type
Workshop
Education
TimeMonday, November 13th11:10am -
11:30am
Location505
DescriptionThe OLCF GPU Hackathons are a one-week
code-development/learning event to better enable
attendees to utilize GPUs. It only took three years to
grow from a “Let’s give this a try”-event to a
repeatedly copied format with several spin- offs that
inspired HPC centers around the world. Sticking to a few
fundamental principles—work on your own code, learn from
your mentors just what you need and when you need it,
stay flexible in achieving your goal—the week long
hackathon format created at Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility (OLCF) has been just the spark needed
by many groups of scientists to light the fire of a
wider GPU adoption in leading- edge as well as
university-scale HPC environments. Most interestingly,
the format enabled both ends of the experience
spectrum—graduate students vs. postdoc fellows—the same
kind of progress and chance of success.
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