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CSC/Pawsey GPU Hackathon

Sept 23-26, 2025 at CSC

Join us and have fun hacking on your GPU code with expert mentors!

The event is meant for code developer teams targeting the GPU partition of LUMI/Setonix (AMD MI250X GPUs) or the upcoming Roihu system (NVIDIA GH200 GPUs). 
The participating teams will be mentored by experts from AMD, HPE, NVIDIA, CSC, and Pawsey.

This will be an on-site event at CSC with no remote participation possibility.

Who can apply?

Anyone who is eligible for access to Setonix, LUMI, or CSC’s computing resources in general (Roihu, Mahti etc.).

In brief, this means:

  • Anyone from Finland or Australia per CSC’s or Pawsey’s general access policies, or
  • Anyone affiliated with a research organization in the EuroHPC countries and/or countries part of the LUMI consortium can apply. A company, which has its headquarters in such countries, is also eligible.
    By partnering with European research groups and/or companies, a non-European applicant can also participate, but please note that the principal investigator of any project that applies will need to be based in the EU or an associated country.

Teams with an active collaboration between an EuroHPC country and Australia are especially encouraged to apply.

Up to six projects/teams will be selected for the event based on applications.

What we are looking for

The event is meant for a broad range of teams targeting AMD or NVIDIA GPUs:

  • from teams looking to port a CPU-only application to GPUs
  • to teams wanting to extend their GPU-enabled application to support another vendors GPUs
  • and finally to teams focusing on optimising their GPU-enabled application.

All the teams need to be committed, well prepared and know their applications in great detail and have clear plans for what they want to achieve and an idea how to do it.
This applies especially to the teams without a GPU-enabled application.

We are looking for proposals outlining a team effort of solving porting and/or performance issues with their code. The scope should be limited so that good progress can be made during the hackathon with your team of two (2) to four (4) people.

Please note that we strongly prefer open source applications.

How to apply and notifications

Closing date: 16.6.2025

Notifications: by 30.6.2025

The application form is available at the bottom of this page. The applications will be evaluated based on technical and scientific merits by CSC and Pawsey.

The teams whose application successfully passes the selection process will need to confirm their participation within two weeks from notification of acceptance.
All participating team members will need to individually register for the event by 15.08.2025. The notification of acceptance will include information on how to confirm the participation and how to register each team member.

Attendance fee for the accepted teams

The fee covers lunches, coffee and snacks during the event.

– For academic partipants: 240€ (excl. VAT) per team member.
– For industry: 1120€ (excl. VAT) per team member.

Questions?

For questions related to participation of Australian teams, please contact help@pawsey.org.au

For any other questions, please contact servicedesk@csc.fi