Frontier Hackathon August 2024
Frontier Hackathon (Virtual and HYBRID days)
Late August virtual days and September 9 hybrid day
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
Contact: Suzanne Parete-Koon ([email protected]).
Overview
The OLCF, in collaboration with HPE and AMD and others, is pleased to announce a 4-Day Frontier Hackathon. Three of the days will be virtual and in August and the fourth day will be in-person the day before the OLCF User Meeting, on September 9. There will also be an out-briefing from teams on hackathon accomplishments during the OLCF User Meeting. Based on past team feedback, the August virtual days will be spread over a couple of weeks, so teams have more time to make progress on the work they start during the mentored hacking days.
Application Submissions Due July 19 at 5:00 pm EDT.
Application to this hackathon is competitive and requires a brief application. The application form asks you to describe your HPC application code(s) and set goals for your team for the hackathon. You will be selected based on how clear and reasonable your goals are for a 5-day hackathon and how clearly you describe your code.
Please do not propose goals that require working at scale on Frontier, as the hackathon reservation will be limited to ~40 nodes so that it does not impact other applications’ ongoing production campaigns.
Here are some examples of past team goals and accomplishments:
- Accelerated their codes’ CPU kernels on the GPUs
- Converted significant sections of their application from CUDA to HIP or OpenACC to OpenMP Target Offload
- Profiled and significantly boosted their code’s performance on Frontier
- Improved I/O performance
- Found and fixed bugs
- Helped onboard new project members
- Generated their first roofline plot
- Received ideas for further improving performance
Preference may be given to teams that commit to send a member to OLCF for the in-person day on September 9 and the out-briefing during the OLCF user meeting September 10-11, however in-person attendance is not required.
All team members attending September 9, virtually or in-person, will need to have a PAS (pass for entry to ORNL or virtual entry). Information will be sent to you for the PAS when you are selected.
Pre-Registration
Pre-Registration Form
If you are interested in submitting an application to participate, please click the drop-down menu below and fill out and submit the form. The deadline to preregister to participate is August 5th at 5:00 pm EDT. To complete the screening process in a timely manner, we ask that all interested Teams.
Schedule Details
Schedule Details
Here are more details about the schedule for the hackathon. We will update these soon.
Based on past team feedback, the August days will be spread over a couple of weeks, so teams have more time to make progress on the work they start during the mentored hacking days.
Dates:
Day 0: August 23 virtual half day. Preparation, Profiler training, Team Introduction presentations
Day 1: August 27 virtual 11:00-5:00pm Hacking
Day 2 August 30 virtual 11:00 am -5:00 Hacking
Day 3 September 9, 9:00 am-5:00 pm in-person at OLCF Hacking.
Day 4: 1.0 hour out-briefing either September 11 at noon EDT the OLCF User meeting.
Agenda
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Fall 2024 Frontier Hackathon | Day 0 - Friday, August 23
Time | Topic | Presenter |
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1:00 - 1:15 p.m. | Welcome & What to Expect | Suzanne Parete-Koon | ORNL, HPC Engineer |
1:15 - 2:00 p.m. | How to Prepare | Eduardo Ponce | HPE, HPC Applications Engineer |
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | HPCToolKit Overview | John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University |
2:30 - 2:37 p.m. | Team TUR145 | ExaFlow | |
2:37 - 2:44 p.m. | Team AST137 | Chimera | |
2:44 - 2:51 p.m. | Team GEO152 | ViT | |
2:51 - 2:58 p.m. | Team TRN029 | MPQC | |
2:58 - 3:05 p.m. | Team TRN029 | Deep Cubes | |
3:05 - 3:12 p.m. | Team FUS 147 | WARPM | |
3:12 - 3:19 p.m. | General Questions | |
3:30 p.m. | Close | |
Fall 2024 Frontier Hackathon | Day 1 - Tuesday, August 27
Time | Topic |
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11:00 - 11:05 p.m. | Welcome & Announcements |
11:05 - 5:00 p.m. | Hacking |
5:00 p.m. | Close |
Fall 2024 Frontier Hackathon | Day 2 - Friday, August 30
Time | Topic |
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11:00 - 11:05 p.m. | Welcome & Announcements |
11:05 - 5:00 p.m. | Hacking |
5:00 p.m. | Close |
Fall 2024 Frontier Hackathon | Day 3 - Monday, September 9
Time | Topic | Location |
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8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome & Working Breakfast | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Auditorium (Rm. 128) |
9:00 - 12:00 p.m. | Frontier Hacking | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Auditorium (Rm. 128) |
12:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Frontier Hacking cont. (working lunch) | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Auditorium (Rm. 128) |
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Lobby |
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. | Frontier Hacking cont. | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Auditorium (Rm. 128) |
5:00 p.m. | Close | |
Fall 2024 Frontier Hackathon | Day 4 - Wednesday, September 11
Time | Topic | Location |
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12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Frontier Hackathon Team Outros (working lunch) | Joint Institute of Computing, ORNL | Bldg. 5100 - JICS Auditorium (Rm. 128) |
1:030 p.m. | Close of Frontier Hackathon | |
