⚠ INFORMATION
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For the fifth consecutive year, IDRIS is organising, together with NVIDIA, a GPU HPC and AI Hackathon.
It will take place on 13 May (remotely) and from 20 to 22 May 2025 (on-site at IDRIS). The registration deadline is 4 March.
GPU Hackathons allow teams of three or four developers or researchers to improve the performance of their HPC or AI codes under the guidance of one or more mentors, who are experts in GPU programming and come from universities, national laboratories, computing centres, government institutions and manufacturers.
You do not need to be an IDRIS user to participate in this event, so feel free to share this message with your colleagues. You will have access to IDRIS's computing resources, allowing you to test your code on recent GPUs, including NVIDIA H100s.
For HPC projects, it could be an opportunity to start porting a code to GPU using OpenACC, OpenMP, Kokkos, GPU libraries, CUDA, etc., or to optimise an existing GPU implementation. If your codebase is large, it is recommended to prepare a representative mini-application to be more efficient during the event.
For AI projects, this hackathon offers a unique opportunity to explore fine-tuning, developing or evaluating state-of-the-art models such as LLMs and GenAI applications. You will be able to optimise your models using advanced techniques such as mixed precision, multi-GPU or multi-node parallelisation (DDP, PP, TP, CP), using standard frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, or specialised tools such as DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, Nanotron or NVIDIA NeMo. Although full pre-training is out of reach within the hackathon's time frame, preparing a pre-training code for large-scale models is still possible.
Registration is via the event page (in English): https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0CUP00000sO9LV2A0/se000364.
