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posts/julia-hackathon-v6-2024.md

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+title = "Julia hackathon v6.0 2024 - Announce"
+date = Date(2024, 07, 13)
+reading_time = "1-minute read"
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+tags = ["activities", "julia", "coding"]
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+The [GPU4GEO team](/team) and external collaborators will gather for the 6th Julia hackathon :tada:, **October 07 - 11 2024** to advance geoscientific Julia projects.
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+## GPU4GEO Julia hackathon
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+After five successful editions, we are happy to announce a 6th edition of the Julia hackathon, to be held in October 2024 in the Black Forest.
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+**Save the dates: October 07 - 11 2024**
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+During this event, we aim at moving forward with the various open-source Julia projects within ice-flow dynamics and geodynamics where collaboration with experts enables the fast track.
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+Namely, we will focus on advancing Julia software engineering and high-performance, parallel, GPU-accelerated code development in following topics:
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+- Work on [FastIce.jl](https://github.com/PTsolvers/FastIce.jl) large-scale application
+- Work on AD capabilities using [Enzyme.jl](https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme.jl) on GPUs
+- Further develop rheology and material parameter routines [GeoParams.jl](https://github.com/JuliaGeodynamics/GeoParams.jl) and use/implement that in existing codes
+- Advance several "differentiable modelling" projects
+- more...
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+Participant will team-up among topics of interest and work on their selected challenges in small groups during the week.
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+Stay tuned as more news will follow...

posts/pasc-dgpu4geo.md

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+title = "GPU4GEO news - Extension and Follow-up project"
+date = Date(2024, 06, 10)
+reading_time = "2-minute read"
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+tags = ["julia", "proposal"]
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+After the last progress meeting in Lugano in January 2024, GPU4GEO got granted a 1 year extension. 6 months later, we submitted a follow up project, ∂GPU4GEO, focussing on differentiable modelling with Julia on GPUs.
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+## GPU4GEO extension
+*Ludovic Räss*
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+After handing-in the final progress report, the GPU4GEO project got granted a 1 year extension to focus on topics such as:
+- GPU HPC CI (running continuous integration and packages' test suite on GPU HPC infrastructure)
+- Application readiness on Nvidia Grace-Hopper GH200 nodes CSCS' ALPS infrastructure
+- Large scale Geodynamics application readiness
+- Finalisation of the STREAM related large scale allocation
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+~~~
+<center>
+    <img src="../../assets/images/gpu4geo_rev.png" alt="GPU4GEO overview" width="600">
+</center>
+~~~
+*Target application and related multi-scale challenges.*
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+## Follow-up PASC project - ∂GPU4GEO
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+On June 10, 2024, we submitted a GPU4GEO follow-up project to the [2024 PASC call](https://pasc-ch.org/projects/2025-2028/call-for-pasc-project-proposals/index.html). The project core team, composed of many GPU4GEO members, proposes to tackles differentiable modelling at scale using unique features of the Julia language, namely, close to native integration of the [Julia GPU](https://juliagpu.org) stack and outstanding automatic differentiation capabilities (of CPU and GPU code) with [Enzyme.jl](https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme.jl).
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+~~~
+<center>
+    <img src="../../assets/images/dgpu4geo.png" alt="GPU4GEO overview" width="700">
+</center>
+~~~
+*Graphical abstract suggesting the next steps to be addressed in ∂GPU4GEO.*
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+The proposed development will articulate around similar topics as developed in recent workshop such as the [NuTS workshop (https://github.com/PTsolvers/Julia-AD-NuTS)](https://github.com/PTsolvers/Julia-AD-NuTS).