Rethinking GPU Hackathons for a Pandemic and Beyond

Rethinking GPU Hackathons for a Pandemic and Beyond

This is a joint story by OLCF writers Coury Turczyn and Rachel McDowell. When University of Michigan (UM) professor of aerospace engineering Venkat Raman and his team of graduate students were awarded a grant of compute time on the nation’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit…

OLCF Staff WriterJanuary 12, 2021

Events

Record-Breaking Year for OLCF GPU Hackathons Ends with Annual Knoxville, Tennessee, Event

In late October, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2019 hackathon series with an event hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, that gave 76 participants access to the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit at the OLCF. Attendees…

Rachel McDowellDecember 16, 2019

GE's GENESIS solver (right) preserves many more wake details of interest in the flow field compared with a commercial solver (left). Image Credit: University of Kansas

Science

GPUs Power GE Code at OLCF Hackathons

The ability to simulate turbulent phenomena using high-performance computing (HPC) can provide industry with important insights for efficient engine design. Second only to the ability to perform these critical simulations is the speed at which they run. If a company can run a model more quickly, the number of possible…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 12, 2019

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