2025 Princeton Open Hackathon

Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization, Princeton University will host a hybrid Hackathon with May 28 (Day 0) and June 4 (Day 1) as virtual days and June 11-13 (days 2-4) occurring in a hybrid format.

Open Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help computational scientists and researchers port, accelerate and optimize their applications on a variety of data center architectures including CPUs and GPUs. The event pairs participants with dedicated mentors experienced in programming and targeted application areas to realize performance gains and speedups using a variety of programming models, libraries, and tools.

The goal of the Open Hackathon is for computational scientists to port, accelerate, and optimize their scientific applications to modern computer architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, and other computing technologies. Participating teams should leave the event either with their applications accelerated and/or optimized on the latest supercomputing hardware or with a clear roadmap of the next steps needed to leverage these resources.

This hackathon is open to everyone looking to take their projects to the next level; however, priority acceptance will be given to Princeton-affiliated scientists and their collaborators.

How to Apply?

Submit your application on the 2025 Princeton Open Hackathon website. The deadline is March 12, 2025.

Learn More

Watch a 2-minute video or read an article about the 2024 Princeton Open Hackathon.

Princeton has held an annual GPU hackathon since the summer of 2019. This multi-day GPU hackathon hosted by Princeton Research Computing and sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and NVIDIA aims to reduce the barrier to entry. Participants will work alongside experienced mentors from industry and from various national laboratories to migrate their code to GPUs and/or optimize codes already running on GPUs.

See the website for the 2025 Princeton Open Hackathon or read an article about the 2023 event.

Contact

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