20th Patatrack Hackathon

11 May 2026, 08:00 → 13 May 2026, 23:59 Europe/Zurich

Lyon

Adriano Di Florio (CC-IN2P3), Breno Orzari (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Felice Pantaleo (CERN)

20th Patatrack Hackathon in Lyon!

Dinner @ https://maps.app.goo.gl/Kyq14qxZhutLHqzD8

The Patatrack Hackathon has been ruling since 2017, and for its 20th edition, it will go abroad: to Lyon! It will be held at CCIN2P3, the Computing Center of IN2P3, and France WLCG T1.

For the nostalgic, here is the 2nd edition, the first officially on Indico, in January 2018.

These hackathons are open to all members of CMS, and self-organized in small groups of 2-4 people.
The goal is to brainstorm, debug, develop, and improve well-defined algorithms or pieces of code, sharing ideas and knowledge, away from emails, meetings, and other distractions.

The deadline for registration is April 24th 2026.

Topics include: performance portability, new algorithms, optimization, reconstruction, memory management, machine learning.

 

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Monday 11 May

1 Welcome

Speakers: Adriano Di Florio (CC-IN2P3), Felice Pantaleo (CERN)

20thPataWelcome.pdf

2 Hacking

11:15 Lunch

3 Hacking

4 Scrum - day 1

Social Events: Velocroc!

Tuesday 12 May

5 Hacking

Group picture

11:30 Lunch

6 Hacking

7 Scrum - day 2

Social Events: Social Dinner

Wednesday 13 May

8 Hacking

12:00 Lunch

9 Hacking

10 Final scrum - day 5