From 27 to 29 April 2026, researchers, developers and HPC users gathered at INESC TEC in Porto and online for the EPICURE Hackathon on Code Optimisation for Heterogeneous HPC Environments. Participants worked directly on optimisation challenges, either by bringing their own applications to the Custom Track or by joining guided starter projects with support from expert mentors.
Deucalion played a central role throughout the programme. Members of its operations and user support teams contributed to the technical sessions and mentoring activities, including a presentation on optimising scientific code on Deucalion’s ARM partition. The event concluded with final project presentations and awards, with the three highest-ranked teams receiving 100,000, 50,000 and 25,000 Deucalion core-hours to continue developing their work.