EuroHack24: High Performance Computing Applications Programming Hackathon

Important Dates

• Sunday, August 25: deadline for confirming your participation (no reminder will be sent!). By this date, you should:
  • Register for the event,
  • Upload a copy of your ID card/passport using the following link: https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/LHcwrznh87MEWmG  and password: MyID_EuroHack24. Note: If you already have an account for the use of CSCS machines, please send your account name to Andreas Jocksch (andreas.jocksch@cscs.ch).
  • Complete your accommodation arrangements (room block booking at the event venue will be released on August 31).
• Tuesday, September 24, 2024, from 10:30 to 13:00 CEST: Kick-off videoconference.
• Sunday, October 6, at 19:00 CEST: informal ice-breaker for those who are already in Lugano and wish to get-together (location to be announced closer to the event by separate email).
• Monday, October 7, at 10:00 CEST: program start (in-person).
• Friday, October 11, at 16:30 CEST: program end (in-person).

Target Audience and Format

Selected teams should plan for their team members to travel to and overnight in Lugano during the event, which will be held in person from October 7 to 11, 2024, at Hotel de la Paix. Your team should consist of minimum 3 to maximum 4 developers. Due to funding restrictions, it is not possible to invite more than 4 participants per team.

In order to confirm your participation in the program, we invite you and all your team members to register for the event by clicking on the red button at the top of this page, to identify yourself by sending the required copy of your ID/passport, and to book your accommodation by Sunday, August 25, 2024 (see related instructions below).

During this 5-day hands-on workshop you will be working on porting or optimizing your applications on a cluster of CPUs and GPU accelerators. Two mentors will be guiding you during this extremely intense time window. The goal is that the development teams leave at the end of the week with applications executing faster, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there. In order to coordinate work and come prepared to make the best out of your time in Lugano, we will be hosting a Zoom kick-off meeting on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, from 10:30 to 13:00 (CEST). Please block your calendars accordingly.

Participation Costs

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. The meeting room, lunches and one conference dinner, as well as access to the supercomputers throughout the event are offered by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). If participants prefer they can use their own GPU resource. Mentors and learning materials are provided by CSCS, Open Hackathons organization and other partner organizations.

Participants are responsible for their travels to the meeting venue, their accommodation, four dinners during the week, and personal expenses.

Registration

Please note that in order to confirm your participation in the program, you and all your team members should register for the event.

Deadline for registration: Sunday, August 25, 2024.

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ID Verification

This course includes extensive hands-on sessions. CSCS offers participants temporary access to its machines to run their codes. In order to obtain the credentials to access CSCS machines, we ask you to please upload a copy of your ID card/passport in the following folder: https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/LHcwrznh87MEWmG using the  password: MyID_EuroHack24.

The copy of your document will be deleted after verification of your identity.

If you already have an account for the use of CSCS machines, please send your account name to Andreas Jocksch (andreas.jocksch@cscs.ch) by Sunday, August 25, 2024.

Note that this step is compulsory in order to confirm your participation in the program.

Venue

In order to offer a good atmosphere for a week of intense programming, we have chosen Hotel de la Paix in Lugano, Switzerland, only minutes by foot to the scenic Lake of Lugano.

Hotel De La Paix
Via Cattori 18
6900 Lugano
Switzerland

Accommodation

In order to assist participants in their search for a hotel in Lugano during high-season, we have made a room block booking at Hotel de la Paix, where the event will be held.

There are 30 rooms blocked for this event at the venue. Rooms range from CHF 159 (single) – 174 (double room for single use) per night per person with breakfast.

The room block will be released on August 31, 2024.  We cannot guarantee room availability after this date.

If you wish to stay at the hotel where EuroHack will be hosted, you can request a room from our block reservation. Please contact the hotel (booking@delapaix.ch) to make your individual booking and remember to mention that you are a participant in the EuroHack24.

Room block code: EUROHACK24

You can also book your room directly on the hotel website by inserting the room block code EUROHACK24.

Additional information on rooms at Hotel de la Paix:

Single room for single use: CHF 159/night
Double room for single use: CHF 174/night
Double room for double use: CHF 234/night

These rates include breakfast, service and VAT. Tourists have to pay taxes per person/night in the amount of CHF 6.20. These taxes include the Ticino Ticket – which gives free access to all busses and trains in the Ticino area and several discounts on museums and other tourist attractions. You can extend your stay over the weekend at the same rate, if you so wish and provided that the hotel has availability to host you.

Note that being beginning of October still high touristic season in Lugano, even if you decide to overnight at a different hotel, we recommend that you promptly make your arrangements for your stay in the area.

Travels

The region is served by Milan Malpensa airport (Italy) and by Zurich airport. The train timetable from either of these airports to Lugano main train station (“Lugano, stazione”) is available here. You should calculate a ride of approximately 2h from Malpensa airport and of 3h40 from Zurich airport.

The FFS, the Swiss railroad network, is extremely widespread and permits one to travel throughout the country.

From Lugano train station (“Lugano, stazione”), you may take bus number 2 heading towards “Paradiso” and get off at bus stop “Lugano, Santa Brigitta.” The hotel lies 50m further down the road on the left-hand side.

Inquiries

Please contact Andreas Jocksch (andreas.jocksch__AT__cscs.ch) for questions related to the EuroHack content, or Tatjana Ruefli (tatjana.ruefli__AT__cscs.ch) for questions related to the workshop logistics