The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), in association with NVIDIA and OpenACC, will host a GPU Hackathon starting July 18th and concluding July 22th, 2022. GPU Hackathons provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes under the guidance of expert mentors from KISTI Supercomputing center, Universities and Industry leaders in a collaborative environment.

The KISTI GPU Hackathon is a multi-day event designed to help teams of three to six developers accelerate their own codes on GPUs using a programming model, or machine learning framework of their choice. Each team is assigned mentors for the duration of the event. This Hackathon is open to everyone with the event limited to only 6 total teams.

Additional Hackathons will be scheduled if there is high interest.

Event Format

KISTI GPU Hackathon will be conducted in the English language and will be hosted in a hybrid event in the Korean Standard Time (KST) zone. Each team will be assigned to a virtual breakout room to work with mentors on their codes and will present reports (SCRUMS) on their progress to all participants in the main virtual meeting space daily. For final team presentations, attendees are required to attend an offline event at Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea. All communication will be done through Zoom, Slack and email.

Prerequisites

• Teams are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon. 
• At least 3 team members must be participating throughout the entire event.
• Projects brought to the event are required to have a license attached and detailed in the application. For more information on why licenses are important and how to obtain one, please use the following links:
• https://tldrlegal.com/
• https://choosealicense.com/
• No advanced GPU skills are required, but teams are expected to know the basics of GPU programming and profiling. A collection of GPU lectures, tutorials, and labs are available for all participants at no fee. Additionally, GPU programming workshops from NVIDIA and KISTI on orientation day will help you kick start building your own knowledge. Please contact organizers for more information to help you prepare for the hackathon. 

GPU Compute Resource

Teams attending the event will be given access to the KISTI V100 GPU clusters for the duration of the hackathon.

Attending the Hackathon

If your team is accepted for the hackathon, registration information will be provided along with mentor introductions and computational resource access. Accepted teams should:

• Register all team members for the event.
• Review the attendee guide. 

To get a better idea of what the virtual GPU Hackathon will be like, check out this blog post on the first virtual hackathon in the series hosted by San Diego Supercomputer Center and watch KISTI GPU hackathon 2021 summary video.

Agenda (subject to change):

Orientation Day (Virtual) - Monday, July 11: 2:00PM – 4:00PM (All times in KST)

Day 1 (Virtual) - Monday, July 18: 9:30AM – 5:30PM

• 09:30 AM - 11:00 PM: Introductions, online tools overview, server instructions, 1st team intro presentations
• 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Social Hour
• 12:00 AM - 04:30 PM: Teams and Mentors start working in breakout rooms
• 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM: 2nd team presentations (SCRUM) showing results of day 1 and plans for the rest of the event

Day 2 (Virtual) - Tuesday, July 19: 9:30AM – 5:30PM

• 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM: Teams work on codes with Mentors
• 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM: Daily SCRUMs. Teams present for 5 min on daily progress.

Day 3 (Virtual) - Wednesday, July 20: 9:30AM – 5:30PM

• 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM: Teams work on codes with Mentors
• 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM: Daily SCRUMs. Teams present for 5 min on daily progress.

Day 4 (Virtual) - Thursday, July 21: 9:30AM – 5:30PM

• 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM: Teams work on codes with Mentors
• 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM: Daily SCRUMs. Teams present for 5 min on daily progress.

Day 5 (Onsite) - Friday, July 22: 9:30AM – 5:30PM

• 09:30 AM - 03:30 PM: Teams work on codes with Mentors
• 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM: Final team presentations (10mins per team)