[hpc-announce] Call for participation for MNHACK26: 8th MareNostrum Hackathon

[Sergio Iserte]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

MNHACK26: 8th MareNostrum Hackathon

Virtual from 15/9/26 to 25/9/26
Hybrid 28-30/9/2026
Barcelona, Spain


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Together with NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization, the Barcelona 
Supercomputing Center will host the 8th Marenostrum Hackathon, a hybrid 
Open Hackathon starting 15 September 2026 and concluding 30 September 2026.

These hackathons are multi-day, hands-on coding events that help 
computational scientists and researchers port, accelerate, and optimize 
their own real-world applications on data center architectures. 
Participants are paired with dedicated, expert mentors and work together 
to tackle computational bottlenecks, optimize HPC and AI workloads, and 
realise performance gains and speedups using a variety of programming 
models, libraries, and tools.

This hackathon is open to everyone looking to take their projects to the 
next level; however, priority acceptance will be given to Barcelona 
Supercomputing Center affiliated scientists and their collaborators.

MNHack is an opportunity for HPC application developers and users to 
deploy, test, port, and optimize their codes on cutting-edge platforms 
provided by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Unlike 
traditional competitive hackathons, MNHack is a non-competitive, 
hands-on event designed to help users improve their applications with 
the support of world-class mentors.

Participants will gain access to Europe’s pre-exascale supercomputer, 
MareNostrum 5, including both general-purpose and accelerated computing 
resources. This event is ideal for those looking to:

-Deploy and scale up HPC applications
-Optimize performance on cutting-edge CPU/GPU hardware
-Analyze behavior using BSC tools such as Extrae, Paraver, and Dimemas
-Leverage programming models like MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenACC, and HIP

Participants receive training and help tailored to their needs, 
including programming models, tools, hardware platforms, and DevOps. 
Experts from BSC and NVIDIA will be available to provide guidance 
throughout the hackathon. You can participate individually or in a team 
of up to 4 people—just bring an HPC application and be ready to have a 
whale of a time.

Organizing Committee
-Steering Committee: Antonio J. Peña (chair) and David Vicente.
-Executive Committee: Sergio Iserte (chair), Hannah Elizabeth Ross 
(online chair), Marta Garcia (in-person chair).

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