Three ways to engage with HackHPC
Participants
Students and researchers — join a hackathon or codeathon and work hands-on with HPC, AI, and science gateways.
Learn MoreFaculty
Instructors — integrate HPC and science gateways into your courses through FacultyHack.
Learn MoreThree kinds of HackHPC events
Hackathons are multi-day, open-ended team build challenges for students. Codeathons are shorter, more structured coding sprints built around a guided dataset or challenge. FacultyHacks are multi-week course-redesign institutes for instructors, not students. All three run in-person, virtually, or as a hybrid of both, depending on the event.
18 multi-day, team-based build challenges
HackHPC's core format. Students form teams, get paired with a mentor from a national lab, research computing center, or industry partner, and spend a few intense days building a working prototype with high-performance computing, AI, or science gateway resources — culminating in team presentations or demos. Hackathons run alongside partner conferences like the ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions, and past events have run alongside PEARC and the Supercomputing (SC) conference.
HackHPC@ADMI26
HackHPC@ADMI26 Hackathon, held in conjunction with the ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions.
HackHPC@ADMI25
HackHPC@ADMI25 Hackathon, held in conjunction with the ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions.
4 guided, dataset-driven coding sprints
A shorter, more structured counterpart to the hackathon. Instead of an open-ended build, participants work through guided exercises around a specific dataset or challenge — a way to introduce HPC and science gateway tools without requiring prior experience. Codeathons have run with partners including SGX3, TACC, and the Minority Serving–Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC).
SGX3 Codeathon Training 2025
Operated with ECSU's Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER), advancing undergraduate professional development with career pathways into HPC and Science Gateways.
Codeathon@ADMI24 – Take a Ride on the ISS
ADMI community coding/codeathon event exploring space exploration data, part of the 2024 ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions.
TACC Codeathon 2023
TACC Codeathon for the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Cyberinfrastructure Research for Social Change.
5 multi-week course-redesign institutes for instructors
The only format built for faculty, not students. FacultyHack@Gateways, run with the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGX3), pairs instructors with mentors over several weeks to redesign a real course — integrating high-performance computing, AI tools, and reproducible workflows — with a concrete course deliverable due by the end, not just a lecture or two.
SGX3's FacultyHack@Gateways26
The 2026 Faculty Hackathon hosted by the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGX3), supporting faculty in integrating science gateways, AI tools, and reproducible workflows into their courses.
FacultyHack@Gateways25
The 2025 Faculty Hackathon hosted by the Science Gateways Community Institute, supporting faculty in integrating science gateways, AI tools, and reproducible workflows into their courses through mentorship and hands-on tutorials.
FacultyHack@Gateways24
The 2024 Faculty Hackathon hosted by the Science Gateways Community Institute.