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Profiler Training Series, Part 3: What Tools to Use When Interactive

OLCF will host a two-hour interactive discussion on selecting profiling tools at different stages of performance analysis. The session includes a tool-agnostic overview of profiling strategies, brief introductions from participating tool vendors, and a moderated panel discussion. The event concludes with an open Q&A, giving participants the opportunity to discuss…
MacKenzie Boyd
January 6, 2026

Profiler Training Series, Part 2: Advanced, How to Profile

This session builds on Part One of the How to Profile series and focuses on analyzing and optimizing multi-process GPU applications using MPI. Participants will learn how to connect GPU and network performance insights to better understand application behavior and improve performance at scale.
MacKenzie Boyd
January 6, 2026

Profiler Training Series, Part 1: Novice, How to Profile

This session introduces the fundamentals of profiling high-performance computing (HPC) applications using AMD profiling tools, with a focus on GPU-accelerated workloads. Participants will learn how to systematically analyze performance and identify opportunities for optimization. No prior profiling experience is required.
MacKenzie Boyd
January 6, 2026
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ORNL Researchers Honored with Award for Best Event Report

A research collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several partner institutions was honored with the Best Event Report award at the 2024 International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events. The eighth annual conference for researchers, educators, professionals and event organizers in high-performance…
Angela Gosnell
December 12, 2024
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OLCF, ECMWF Accepting Proposals for New Virtual Hackathon

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), in partnership with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is accepting proposals for the 2022 Integrated Forecast System (IFS) Experimental Nature Run (NR) Data Hackathon, a virtual hackathon open to teams around the world. Teams will have unprecedented access to a…
Betsy Sonewald
July 29, 2022
ScienceTechnology

From Summit to the Stars

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2021 hackathon with teams from around the globe working on projects that spanned the cosmos. Ten teams with a total of 71 participants from 21 organizations took part in the October hackathon hosted by the OLCF, home to Summit, the nation’s…
Matt Lakin
March 18, 2022
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OLCF Organizes First Hackathon on Slate Service

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hosted its first ever Slate hackathon for users of the OLCF’s Slate platform, a resource that provides container orchestration services and gives users a chance to run specialized tools and workflows that support computational campaigns. The hackathon was developed and hosted by the…
Rachel McDowell
September 29, 2021
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GPU Hackathon Places Summit within Reach for Visiting Teams

Visiting teams representing academia, industry, and government participated in this year’s OLCF GPU Hackathon, held the week of October 22 in downtown Knoxville. Some teams used the time to prepare codes for the IBM AC922 Summit system. In less than 10 years, GPUs have become a proven engine of scientific…
Jonathan Hines
December 3, 2018
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Teams Gear up for Summit at Fourth Annual GPU Hackathon

At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) fourth annual GPU Hackathon, event programmers again successfully adapted their applications for GPU architectures. The 5-day event at the Hilton in Knoxville, Tennessee, took place the week of October 9 during the installation of the OLCF’s next flagship supercomputer, Summit. The event drew…
Rachel McDowell
November 28, 2017
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Mini Hackathon Offers Shorter Schedule, Introductory Focus

In November, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hosted its first 3-day mini GPU Hackathon, an extension of the center’s annual 5-day GPU Hackathon, which began in 2014. The mini hackathon took place November 1–3 at the Crowne Plaza in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was open to the public. “The…
Katie Elyce Jones
January 4, 2017
Technology

CAAR Team Members Test Compilers for Summit at IBM Hackathon

Former OLCF Postdoctoral Researcher and current NVIDIA Solutions Architect Tom Papatheodore (left) and OLCF Tools Developer Oscar Hernandez (right) attended an IBM hackathon for OpenMP 4.5 with Lixiang Luo (center), an IBM research staff member at the IBM/NVIDIA Center of Excellence at ORNL, to test compilers for Summit, the OLCF’s…
Rachel McDowell
December 7, 2016
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Accelerating Codes at University of Delaware Hackathon

The University of Delaware hosted this year’s second OLCF-involved hackathon, where programmers from national laboratories, universities, and vendors gather to share application GPU portability expertise and learn how to program for a hybrid CPU–GPU machine like the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer.
Miki Nolin
June 14, 2016
Technology

OLCF Hosts First OpenACC Hackathon

From October 27 to 31, scientific computing teams from around the world gathered in Knoxville to participate in the OLCF’s inaugural Hackathon, an OpenACC event specifically aimed at scaling scientific applications to run on heterogeneous, high-performance computing systems such as Titan.
OLCF Staff Writer
December 10, 2014