Online Hackathon with a Prize Worth $30,000 from Hackerearth

Hackerearth is inviting all programmers and research teams all over the world to participate in the National HPC Hackathon to port their existing solutions and optimize in cloud. Participating teams will be provided with AWS infrastructure on Intel for building pipelines for solutions in the field of life sciences. They will compete to execute these pipelines to showcase faster, parallel, high throughput and optimized use of compute.

Hackathon Themes:-

Life sciences field is vast and covers a plethora of opportunities. An indicative list of a few life sciences research areas below (not exhaustive):

• Chemistry: Bio-chemistry & molecular modelling.
• Bio-engineering: Agricultural engineering.
• Genomics: Complex disease genomics, agri-genomics, oncology & microbial genomics.
• Biology: Molecular biology.
• Pharmacology: Drug discovery, pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamic modelling.

Winning Team will receive prizes worth USD 30K and a 2-year access to exclusive Intel software support.

• The National HPC Hackathon is focused on the field of life sciences. Participants can choose the projects from life sciences. 
• The Hackathon is open to all research institutes and scientists/post-doctoral candidates associated with a research institute in India. 
• This is a team participation Hackathon. There should be a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 members in the team. Team members can be from multiple institutes. One person can be part of one team only. 
• The Hackathon has two phases - an idea qualification phase and the actual Hackathon itself (aka Hack phase where AWS resources will be provided for 7 days).
• The Idea phase is a qualification phase to the actual Hackathon where ideas will be solicited, and submissions will be shortlisted on certain selection criteria.
• It's an online Hackathon, you can participate from anywhere.
• The intellectual property of your solution belongs only to your team.
• Participants need to submit an idea detailing a research computational workflow (inclusive of pre-processing, simulation/core-analyses, post-processing and visualization if applicable) which they have already run on-premise on CPU architectures only. Along with detailing the workflow itself, key metrics around performance of the workflow will also need to be defined. For example, time to results, throughput or absolute simulation performance (need not be extensive but these metrics need to be compared when running the workflow on the cloud). 

About Hackerearth:-

HackerEarth is an Indian software company headquartered in San Francisco, that provides enterprise software that helps organizations with their technical hiring needs. HackerEarth is used by organizations for technical skill assessment and remote video interviewing. In addition to that HackerEarth also has a community and since inception built a base of 4M+ developers.

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