Fall 2026 TPC Hackathon
Hosted by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
9-11 September 2026
Open calls now to:
Event Overview
The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) seeks to foster open, collaborative research on the development and deployment of large and massive scale AI models for science. EuroTPC is Europe’s coordinated presence within the TPC, connecting Europe’s leading high-performance computing centres, AI Factories and research institutions to TPC’s international governance, working groups and scientific activities.
Through hackathons, the TPC community has catalyzed the acceleration of many individual and multi-institutional projects. LRZ with be hosting the Fall 2026 edition of the TPC hackathon. The hackathon will start on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 to Friday, September 11, 2026, and will take place in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
Over the course of the event, computational scientists and researchers will work hands-on to build a first prototype of their ideas, or port, accelerate, scale and optimize existing AI applications for a variety of CPU and GPU architectures. Each team will be matched with an experienced mentor — well-versed in both programming techniques and the relevant application domain — to help drive tangible progress and speedups through targeted use of programming models, libraries, and optimization tools.
A call is now open to recruit Breakout Group Leaders.
Working Group Breakout Descriptions
- Various breakouts will run simultaneously at times, these groups will combine for a group hackathon and discussions at others.
- Team leads are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon.
- 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 is much easier for the hackathon organizer to pair your team with Mentors.
If you have a problem statement of your own and would like to lead a Breakout Group, please submit using this form:
Deadline: 20 July 2026
Registration
- This Hackathon is open for international participants from academia and industry.
- Registration does not guarantee participation. We will evaluate your application and inform you upon acceptance.
- Please register with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.
If you’d like to participate as part of a team, you can do so through LRZ’s official platform:
Deadline: 24 August 2026
Agenda
Coming soon…
Program Committee
- Ajay Navilarekal (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
- Miguel Vázquez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
- Arvind Ramanathan (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)