The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) seeks to foster open, collaborative research on the development and deployment of large and massive scale AI models for science. EuroTPC is Europe’s coordinated presence within the TPC, connecting Europe’s leading high-performance computing centres, AI Factories and research institutions to TPC’s international governance, working groups and scientific activities.
Through hackathons, the TPC community has catalyzed the acceleration of many individual and multi-institutional projects. LRZ with be hosting the Fall 2026 edition of the TPC hackathon. The hackathon will start on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 to Friday, September 11, 2026, and will take place in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
Over the course of the event, computational scientists and researchers will work hands-on to build a first prototype of their ideas, or port, accelerate, scale and optimize existing AI applications for a variety of CPU and GPU architectures. Each team will be matched with an experienced mentor — well-versed in both programming techniques and the relevant application domain — to help drive tangible progress and speedups through targeted use of programming models, libraries, and optimization tools.
Working Group Breakout Descriptions:
WG1: Develop workflows and agentic systems, collaborate on various implementations for Pandemic Preparedness Engine (PPX), a project funded from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
WG2: Benchmark llama.cpp backends and GPU vendors for performance and energy efficiency across chat, reasoning, and vision-language models to find the most power-efficient hardware/software/model combinations.
WG3: Cost-aware LLM evolutionary algorithm design (multi-fidelity + Bayesian optimization + tiered model routing), benchmarked on GPU kernel-generation tasks on LRZ HPC infrastructure.
WG4: LLM-agent system that profiles HPC hardware, runs targeted micro-benchmarks, and suggests informed code optimizations grounded in real measurements.
Agenda:
- Wednesday, September 9, 2026
10:00-11:00 Welcome and Introduction of Teams (+ coffee)
11:00-13:00 Breakout
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Updates on TPC
14:30-16:00 Breakout / Tour of the Compute Cube Group 1
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Breakout
18:00-18:30 Daily Progress Updates by each Team
- Thursday, September 10, 2026
08:30-10:30 Breakout
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:45 Breakout
12:45-13:45 Lunch
14:00 onwards Social event (brewery tour + dinner)
18:00 onwards Social Dinner
- Friday, September 11, 2026
08:30-10:30 Breakout
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Breakout / Tour of the Compute Cube Group 2
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Final updates
16:00-16:30 Closing & Adjourn
