“Attending the 2023 Hackathon will help our team optimize our models to run on HiPerGator and increase their efficiency and performance,” wrote Warrington College of Business Assistant Professor Ivy Munoko. “We use a large dataset with tens of millions of data points.”
Partnering with NVIDIA and OpenACC, the second annual UF-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon began this week. Ten teams of computational researchers and developers are participating, including three external teams representing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Alabama, and Arizona State University. Each team is receiving mentorship in GPU programming, high-performance computing, and data applications from NVIDIA and UFIT staff. Professor Munoko’s team includes Karla Saldaña Ochoa, assistant professor, College of Design, Construction, and Planning, and Maxim Terekhov, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management.
The hackathon is an opportunity to port, accelerate, and optimize scientific applications with programming models and tools hosted through HiPerGator. Participants are also developing a deeper understanding of HiPerGator’s computational capabilities while utilizing applications on the latest supercomputing hardware. Researchers with questions about the hackathon or who would like to schedule a consult about UF-AI computing support may contact Applications Specialist and AI Support Team Lead Ms. Ying Zhang.
