Supercomputing Wales, a consortium of four Welsh universities, is celebrating the results of its first hackathon, a design sprint-like event that brought computer programmers and others together to develop software code and improve performance.
In the three-day event, regional software engineers from across
* Hydro 3D an MPI/Fortran code - the repository for Hydro3D, an open source Large Eddy Simulation code
* Molpro, a comprehensive system of ab initio programs for advanced molecular electronic structure calculations
* Darknet, an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA for CPU and GPU computation
* HiREP, a set of programs for performing calculations in the framework of Lattice Gauge Theory, a superset of lattice QCD
* Maxwell NEFEM, Fortran, MPI, potentially looking to port to GPU
* Sombrero, a benchmarking utility for high performance computing based on lattice field theory applications.
The code hackathon, organized by
The mentors from NVIDIA,
The first day's activity commenced with early profiling of the codes and discussion between the RSEs and Mentors to agree on a plan for performance improvement. The teams huddled at the end of each day to present code improvements and challenges and to share best practices.
In addition to the multiple networking and discussion opportunities among the RSE and Mentors, the activity boosted code performance, enabling Supercomputing Wales to achieve greater ROI on the current infrastructure. A
The hackathon drew on the resources of the
With the HPC systems and expertise of Supercomputing Wales and the Atos Dell Technologies Supercomputing CoE, researchers across
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