Are you working with Nvidia GPUs in your research and wish Nvidia would support you as they used to 5 years ago? This is now done with hackatons, where you get one full week of support, to get your GPU-code improved and your CPU-code ported. Still you have to do it yourself, so it’s not comparable to services we provide.

• https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/for-users/training/gpu-hackathons/
• https://www.openacc.org/hackathons

To start, get your team on a decision to do this. It takes preparation and a clear formulation of what your goals are.

When and where?

It’s already April, so some hackatons have already taken place. For 2019, these are left where you can work on any language, from OpenMP to OpenCL and from OpenACC to CUDA. Python + CUDA-libraries is also no problem, as long as the focus is Nvidia.

Location	Call for Proposals Opens	Call for Proposals Closes	Event
Princeton – Princeton, NJ	January 31	April 26	June 24-28
NERSC – Oakland, CA	March 25	May 15	July 15-19
Sheffield – United Kingdom	April 1	June 16	August 19-23
Brookhaven – Upton, NY	March 4	May 31	September 23-27
CSCS – Lugano, Switzerland	March 20	July 7	September 30 – October 4
OLCF – Knoxville, TN	February 22	August 16	October 21-25

For OpenACC only, these are the events in 2019:

Location	Application Deadline	Event Date
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia	April 19, 2019	June 17-21, 2019
Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil	TBD	TBD
CDAC, Pune, India	TBD	September 16-20, 2019
Shenzhen Supercomputing Center, China	TBD	August 26-30, 2019

Apply soon!

At the two homepages there is all the info to get started and the form to apply. If you need more info, you can also contact us.