Open Hackathons

This summer, researchers from Italy, Spain, France, and Austria convened at the CINECA Open Hackathon with the objective to optimize and rigorously test their code and applications on LEONARDO, a Tier-0 EuroHPC supercomputer. As CINECA prepares to manage the future AI factory's strategic supercomputing infrastructure alongside its existing HPC capabilities, the hackathon served as a critical platform.

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) is a world-class supercomputer and data science hub. It supports high-performance computing (HPC) and AI applications, cloud computing, and data storage on a 100% green grid with over 8000 Australian and international users.

The Gaia mission is an extraordinarily large project launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013 to create the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way, describing the position, motion, and properties of nearly two billion objects. The Gaia Astrometric Verification Unit–Global Sphere Reconstruction (AVU–GSR) Parallel Solver derives the positions and proper motions of primary stars in the Milky Way observed with the Gaia satellite.

Understanding turbulent fluid flows lies at the heart of such versatile domains as climate, health, and energy. Modern methods used in flow simulations have yet to reach their efficiency limits in providing fast, high-resolution predictions. To answer outstanding questions about the nature of turbulence requires massive computing power and innovative  methods designed with computational efficiency at their core.

The field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) struggles with challenges to resolve computational complexity and cost of the simulations. Executing the operations over large fine meshes at small timesteps requires the algorithms to be designed with parallel efficiency at their core. 

The recent Open Accelerated Computing Summit (OAC Summit) brought together researchers and developers from around the world, sharing significant OpenACC updates and use cases and highlighting relevant modeling, simulation, and AI initiatives advanced by the Open Hackathons program.