2025 HPC and AI GPU Hackathon at IDRIS

IDRIS is organizing a HPC and AI GPU Hackathon together with NVIDIA.

The Hackathon will be held on May 13th 2025 (remotely) and from May 20th through May 22nd (on site at IDRIS).

GPU Hackathons provide opportunities for teams of three or four developers and researchers to accelerate their HPC or AI codes under the guidance of expert mentors from universities, national labs, computing centers, governmental institutions and hardware manufacturers in a collaborative environment.

During the Hackathon, you will be provided with access to the computing resources of IDRIS, in order to be able to benchmark your code on recent GPUs, including NVIDIA H100s.

For HPC projects, it could be the opportunity to start porting a code to GPU using OpenACC, OpenMP, Kokkos, GPU libraries, CUDA, etc or to optimize an existing GPU implementation. If your codebase is large in size, we recommend selecting and extracting a representative mini-app from the original application in order to be more efficient during the Hackathon.

For AI projects, it will be the occasion to explore finetuning, developing or evaluating cutting-edge models such as LLMs or GenAI applications. You will be able to improve your models thanks to advanced techniques like mixed precision, multi-GPU or multi-node parallelization ​(DDP, ​PP, ​TP, ​CP), by using standard frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, or specialized tools like DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM,​ Nanotron or NVIDIA NeMo. Even though a full pretraining cannot be achieved in the time frame of the Hackathon, you can get a pretraining code ready for large scale models.

Please register on https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0CUP00000sO9LV2A0/se000364.

The application deadline is March 4th 2025.