Georgia Tech Hosts First In-Person OpenACC Hackathon

The clacking of keys and murmur of collaboration filled the room on the second floor of the CODA building as teams of Georgia Tech students and researchers hacked away at lines of code.

They were gathered there on January 30, 2025, the last day of the annual OpenACC Hackathon at Georgia Tech

, an event designed to help researchers and developers accelerate and optimize computer code by utilizing a variety of data center architectures, including central processing units (CPUs) and graphic processing units (GPUs).

The 10 participating teams, selected from a pool of nearly 50 applicants, had each worked on benchmarking and improving their own unique code for projects that covered a variety of topics from robotic autonomy to biomedical sensor applications. Their work culminated on the last day of the hackathon when each team presented the progress they had made over the 11-day event.