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Mar 14
Let’s hack a ton! Eurohack Day 1
On March 6, ten teams met at JSC for the Eurohack 2017 to boost their applications on GPUs or port them to use GPUs at all. We had on average of 4 team members and 2 mentors per team. So we were topping around 70 hackers in one room. This year’s hackathon (see last years …
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Aug 22
GPU Database Research | Community Meeting 15/08/2016
On August 15th we hold the “5th Community Meeting on GPUs and Databases” at the TU Dresden, organized by the local database systems group and the Dresden GPU Center of Excellence. The meeting was well attended with 21 attendees from six different universities and three different companies or research centers. People came not only from …
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Jul 25
GCOE Reports | June – July
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Mar 08
One Week of GPU Hacking as a Mentor
As it was covered on this blog extensively, I’d like to share my personal experiences as a mentor at the 2016 GPU Eurohack in Dresden, Germany. I was affiliated to the Palm4GPU project together with 2 other mentors: Alexander Grund (HZDR) and Dave Norton (PGI). Three developers came over from Hannover to advance their already …
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Mar 05
The Day after the Hackathon – Time for a First Summary
What a week! The good news first: All teams left happy and have achieved their set goals. Some by far overachieved them, some left with more homework than others. This was by far the most extraordinary and unusual event that I have organized so far. Time for a view thoughts:
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Mar 04
Hackathon Day 4: The Plateau of Enlightenment
Thursday nicely showed the spirit of the hackathon that it is not a competition. While three teams are now at the point that they have reached their set goals, three others were still working on improving their applications.
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Mar 03
Day 3: Mood Swings – or – As I Walk Through the Valley of Doubt
Day three opened the floor to a variety of emotions from the teams: Excitement and giddiness for one team, very focussed work for most teams, but one team has realized that the previous work is leading them into a dead-end. All teams were using Wednesday for performance optimizations, e.g. by adding ASYNC-Clauses, finding faster random number …
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