CISL encourages current and future users of NCAR’s GPU computing resources to participate in training and code-development events like the upcoming GPU hackathon hosted by NOAA and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The hackathon is scheduled for February 28 to March 2, 2022, with one day set for introductions the prior week. Both AI and classic HPC-based modeling groups with codes at early- or late-stage development are invited to apply and submit their projects by December 22. Priority acceptance will be given to NOAA-affiliated scientists and their collaborators.

Accepted groups will have the opportunity to port and/or optimize their code alongside GPU-computing mentors and experts from the larger community, including computational scientists and research software engineers at national labs and NVIDIA. Feel free to reach out to dhoward@ucar.edu if you have any questions about these opportunities or about the application process.