2025-10-07 EuroCC2 AI Hackathon (haiht1w25)

Registration

Please apply via the Openhackathons.org registration page with your official institute or comany email address to prove your affiliation.
The final participants will be selected after the registration deadline has passed and will be notified shortly afterwards.

Contents

Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization, the EuroCC National Competence Centres will host an Open Hackathon starting October 14 and concluding October 23, 2025.

Open AI Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help AI and ML engineers and data scientists accelerate, optimize, and scale their real-world projects leveraging the latest technologies.

The event pairs participating teams with dedicated expert mentors to enhance the performance, efficiency, and scalability of their applications using state-of-the-art programming models, libraries, and tools. Whether you’re working on deep learning, data analytics, or model optimization, this hackathon provides a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation using an advanced AI and ML infrastructure.

This hackathon is open to everyone looking to take their projects to the next level, however, participating teams have to be based in EU and/or EuroCC countries.

This hackathon is co-organized by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC@GCS, and EuroCC Poland, all National Competence Centres for HPC, HPDA & AI.

Please ensure that your team meets all prerequisites before you apply and use your official institute or comany email address in the application form.

Important Dates

19 August 2025 – Registration Deadline
07 October 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 (CEST) – Team/Mentor Meeting
14 October 2025, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST) – Day 1
21 October 2025, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST) – Day 2
22 October 2025, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST) – Day 3
23 October 2025, 09:00 - 17:00 (CEST) – Day 4

Event Format

The EuroCC2 AI Hackathon will be hosted online in the Central European Summer Time (CEST) zone. All communication will be done through Zoom, Slack, and email. Each team will be assigned to a breakout room to work with mentors on their codes and will present reports (SCRUMS) on their progress to all participants in the main room daily.

Prerequisites

• Teams are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon. 
• A minimum of 3 team members must participate throughout the entire event. Lack of complete participation will result in the entire team being excused.
• Projects brought to the event are required to have a license attached and detailed in the application. Permissive-style Open Source License (e.g. BSD, MIT or Apache 2.0 license) are preferred as it’s much easier for the hackathon organizer to pair your team with Mentors. Here are some tips and guidelines on licenses:
  • Software Licenses in Plain English
  • Choosing a License

Recommended

No advanced parallel computing or GPU skills are required, but it is helpful for teams to know the basics of GPU programming and profiling. We recommend familiarizing yourself with these concepts by accessing any of the no-charge lectures, tutorials, and labs available to all participants. Please contact the organizers for more information to help you prepare for the hackathon.

Compute Resources

Attendees will be given access to a GPU cluster for the duration of the hackathon.

Attending the Hackathon

If your team is accepted for the hackathon, registration information will be provided along with mentor introductions and computational resource access. Accepted teams must:

• Register all team members for the event.
• Review the attendee guide.

Daily Agenda (Subject to Change):

All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Day 0 Tuesday, October 7, 2025: 10:00 - 13:00

• 10:00 - 10:10: Welcome talk
• 10:10 - 10:20: Overview of the hackathon and expectations with Costanza Mazza (NVIDIA)
• 10:20 - 10:30: Review online tools with Tosin Adesuyi (NVIDIA)
• 10:30 - 11:30: Nsight introduction session
• 11:30 - 12:00: Cluster overview
• 12:00 - 12:50: Attendees will go to the breakout rooms with their mentors
• 12:50 - 13:00: Mentor sync (mentor breakout room)

Day 1 Tuesday, October 14, 2025: 09:00 - 17:00

• 09:00 - 11:00: Team introduction presentations
• 11:00 - 11:15: Mentor introductions
• 11:15 - 17:00: Teams and mentors work in breakout rooms
• 12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

Day 2 Tuesday, October 21, 2025: 09:00 - 17:00

• 09:00 - 17:00: Teams and mentors work in breakout rooms
• 10:00 - 11:00: Daily SCRUMs, teams present for 5 minutes on daily progress
• 12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

Day 3 Wednesday, October 22, 2025: 09:00 - 17:00

• 09:00 - 17:00: Teams and mentors work in breakout rooms
• 10:00 - 11:00: Daily SCRUMs, teams present for 5 minutes on daily progress
• 12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break

Day 4 Thursday, October 23, 2025: 09:00 - 17:00

• 09:00 - 15:00: Teams and mentors work in breakout rooms
• 12:00 - 13:00: Lunch break
• 15:00 - 17:00: Final team presentations

Language

English

Mentors

Mentors: TBA (NVIDIA)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for participants from academia, public administration and industry from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme. Please make sure to register with your official institute or comany email address to prove your affiliation.

Legal Notices

This course is offered in cooperation by Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA. Registration is done via Openhackathons.org hosted by OpenACC-Standard.org.

Acknowledgements

EuroCC 2 has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Türkiye, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia.