The Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) and Appentra Solutions will host the 4th CESGAHACK at the Galicia Supercomputing Center, in Santiago de Compostela, from 25th to 29th March 2019. The five-day scientific hackathon aims to help scientists and application developers to answer more scientific questions by speeding up their application runtime, and reducing how long they […]
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CESGAHACK3, making code parallel for science.
During the last week of September Appentra ran the hackathon CESGAHACK3 at the Research Centre on Information and Communication Technology (CITIC). The four participating teams spent the week learning, discussing solutions and developing parallel versions of their own scientific software. This is the third Hackathon organized by Appentra, and sponsored by NVIDIA. What is […]
Getting ready for CESGAHACK 3
In just two weeks we will be welcoming four teams to A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, to participate in CESGAHACK3. Alongside our expert mentors from Appentra, CESGA and RWTH Aachen University, the teams will be working on improving performance of codes across a wide range of scientific applications. Xesol The Xesol team, from Xesol Innovation, Vigo, […]
CESGAHACK18 Experience, the 2nd GPU Hackathon
During the first full week of March Appentra ran CESGAHACK18 at the Supercomputer Center of Galicia (CESGA). The six participating teams spent the week learning, discussing solutions and developing parallel versions of their own software. This is the second GPU Hackathon that Appentra has co-organized with CESGA. This year we were delighted that NVIDIA joined […]
Announcing the CESGAHACK 18 Participants
Appentra Solutions S.L., in collaboration with our colleagues at CESGA, are delighted to announce the participants in the upcoming CESGAHACK: a hackathon taking place at CESGA, Santiago de Compostela on 5th-9th March 2018. We received many fantastic applications for the hackathon, but sadly we have to limit the experience to just 6 teams. The […]
From CesgaHack17 to SC17: A Success Story With Parallelware Trainer
One of the goals of the GPU Hackathons that we organize is to create a collaborative relationship with the participating teams to continue researching and creating success stories that demonstrate the capabilities of Parallelware Trainer as an experiential learning tool of parallel programming. The first edition of the CesgaHack, in the summer of 2017, hosted […]
The enthusiastic and collaborative atmosphere was the strength of CESGA’s GPU Hackathon
The Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA) and Appentra Solutions have organized the first edition of the GPU Hackathon at CESGA, Santiago de Compostela, from May 29 to June 1. The event was attended by physicists, mathematicians and engineers of universities and institutions with research projects related to scientific simulation applications. The main objective was to […]
Appentra and CESGA organize a GPU Hackathon
See the teams results on the GPU Hackathon 2017. We are going to organize a GPU Hackathon from May 29th to June 1st at the Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) in Santiago de Compostela. The event is free and limited in capacity. What is the purpose of this hackathon? The goal is to help developers accelerate the execution of their […]