Dardel is a Swedish flagship supercomputer operated by PDC at KTH in Stockholm. It is an HPE Cray EX system with AMD EPYC™ 64 core CPUs and AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. Compute time on Dardel is available for academic research via SNIC.

This hackathon is for teams of research software developers who want to accomplish one or more of the following goals:

• Port their code to run on AMD Instinct™ GPUs using any of the GPU programming frameworks listed below
• Improve the performance of code that already runs on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
• Scale up their codes to multiple AMD Instinct™ GPUs

During the hackathon, project teams will be paired up with expert mentors from HPE, AMD, PDC and ENCCS who will guide them during the hackathon to accomplish their stated goals. Teams should have at least two members who are prepared to work full-time on their projects for the duration of the hackathon. We furthermore also strongly encourage diversity in project teams.

Location

This hackathon will take place over four days split over two weeks. The first day of the hackathon, March 7, will be online while the main work will be hosted on-site on KTH Campus in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 14-16. Further details about the location will be provided later.