Date
Monday 17 - Friday 21 May 2021
Location
The Cyprus Institute
This will be an online event, which will take place over Zoom, with the following link:
Description
CaSToRC, the National HPC Competence Center is calling for applications for its upcoming HPC Hackathon, due to take place between Monday 17 - Friday 21 May 2021.
There will be two separate themes to this hackathon.
Hackathon Projects
This will be an all week event - between Monday 17 - Friday 21 May 2021.
Applicants who have an established computational project
Applicants must have an established computational project which they are working on to scale up towards using more resources. In this call, they should describe in the application form, the problems they are facing in their project. These may be of computational, technical or algorithmic nature and which prevent or hamper progress in the scaling up of their project.
During this week-long Hackathon event, a member of the CaSToRC High Level Support Team (HLST) will be assigned to selected projects, and work hands-on with group members to help resolve their problems.
It is thus important that applicants provide a detailed description of their projects and the issues they face, so the most appropriate HLST member can be assigned to their project (if selected). In addition, it is important that applicants commit that they be able to fully attend the Hackathon and come well prepared with the issues they are facing with their project so the HLST member assigned to them can best help them.
Applicants who do not have an established computational project
If someone wants to participate in the Hackathon, but does not have an established computational project which they are currently working on, the company RetailZoom will provide a dataset to use in order to predict the customers churn for a retail store in Cyprus.
This hackathon challenge is a continuation of the challenge that took place during the Hackathon session of the Cyprus HPC Industry Week, in the beginning of March 2021.
There will be a webinar where we will discuss the problem space, and the teams that took part in the previous RetailZoom Hackathon challenge will present their results. The date of the webinar will be announced soon.
If you are interested in participating in this part of the Hackathon, please specify this in the registration form.
Please complete your application to attend the Hackathon through the following link:
General HPC Related Questions, Coding and Exercises
This will be a three day event, between Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 May 2021.
People will be able to join and participate in the following activities:
- Ask general HPC related questions
HLST members and HPC Operations staff will be available to provide answers and advice to their requests. - Take part in various exercises that will be made available and set by HLST members
HLST members will be available to help participants towards their solutions. - HPC DYI Coding
At all times, participants can code on their own work, and ask HLST members for support on small issues
To register for this event and so an account is made for you, please fill in the following form:
The agenda for this theme of the hackathon is as follows:
Agenda
Day 1 (Monday 17th May 2021)
- 11:00 - 12:30: General HPC Questions, HPC DIY Coding
- 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30 - 14:30: OpenMP Exercises, HPC DIY Coding
- 14:30 - 15:00: Break
- 15:00 - 15:45: MPI and Hybrid Programming Exercises, HPC DIY Coding
Day 2 (Tuesday 18th May 2021)
- 11:00 - 12:30: General HPC Questions, HPC DIY Coding
- 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30 - 14:30: Python for HPC Exercises, HPC DIY Coding
- 14:30 - 15:00: Break
- 15:00 - 15:45: Benchmarking/Profiling Exercises, HPC DIY Coding
Day 3 (Wednesday 19th May 2021)
- 11:00 - 12:30: HPC DIY Coding
- 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30 - 14:30: HPC DIY Coding
- 14:30 - 15:00: Break
- 15:00 - 15:45: HPC DIY Coding
This event is part of the EuroCC project and the National Competence Center activities.
Pre-requisites
For the Hackathon
Applicants must already have an established computational project they are working on scaling up for use on more resources.
Please complete your application to attend the Hackathon through the following link:
Attendees should come well prepared with the issues they are facing with their project so the user support member assigned to them can best help them.
General HPC Related Questions, Coding and Exercises
To register for this event and so an account is made for you, please fill in the following form:
Requirements
All attendees will need their own desktop or laptop with the following software installed:
- Web browser - e.g. Firefox or Chrome
- PDF viewer - e.g. Firefox, Adobe Acrobat
- ssh client - Terminal for Mac or Linux is fine. For Windows Putty should be fine.
