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Join the NVIDIA DOCA Virtual and be part of the next evolution in the AI-driven data center and cloud. Take part in supercharging the NVIDIA BlueField data processing unit (DPU) capabilities for AI, networking, storage, and security by familiarizing yourself with the NVIDIA® DOCA™ software framework and building an innovative accelerated application. Build your network, meet NVIDIA experts, and show what you can accomplish with DOCA. Please join us and reshape the future of the data center and cloud.
If you’re passionate about advancing cloud and data center computing, the power of innovation is at your fingertips. Take advantage of the DOCA Hackathon to build the hands-on skills needed to leverage next-generation cloud and data center innovation that will help you advance your infrastructure services.
If you love technology, we want you here, whether you’re a seasoned researcher or a novice developer, an independent software vendor (ISV) partner or a cloud service provider. Be prepared to learn, brainstorm, and build amazing real-world DOCA skills. Throughout the event, we’ll provide the support and tools you need to learn the foundations of the DOCA software framework and how to use its SDK and tools to develop DPU-accelerated cloud applications.
Read more about how DPU hackathons are unleashing breakthrough technologies and furthering advancements in AI, cloud, and accelerated computing.
At NVIDIA, where non-stop innovation is our culture, we’re hosting a global series of regional DPU software hackathons that will take place over the next 12 months. These virtual events are aimed at advancing research and development in data center and AI technologies.
The last NVIDIA DPU Hackathon brought together 11 teams with the goal of creating new and exciting DPU innovations. The event spanned 24 hours from December 8-9 and included 50 team applications from various universities and enterprises.
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SVP of Software R&D
SVP of Software Architecture
VP of Business Ethernet NIC and DPU
VP of Storage Technology
VP of Cloud Programs
Along with the below prizes, the top three teams* will receive special recognition in an NVIDIA blog about the hackathon, and each winner will get three credits to the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.
One NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 DPU card for the winning team
* Up to five participants per team
(per participant)
One NVIDIA BlueField®-2 DPU card for the winning team
*Up to five participants per team
To prepare for the hackathon, there will be an optional bootcamp before the event, to familiarize yourself with the DOCA SDK, as well as the hackathon’s online platform. To get a headstart, take our free introductory course.
The DOCA software framework is a development platform that enables developers to create network, storage, security, management, and AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications and services for BlueField DPUs, much like how NVIDIA CUDA® enables developers to build GPU-accelerated applications.
https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone
The hackathon will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.
Each team can use their own set up or can request a pre-configured DPU set up from NVIDIA DOCA Hackathon.
Your team will be contacted a few days before the event and provided with connection details and credentials to access your team’s dedicated setup. You will be able to use Secure Shell (SSH) to directly connect your laptop to the BlueField DPU operating system and its hosting x86 server. In addition, you’ll have access to the server’s Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for power cycle and additional management operations.
Bring your team (up to five people per team), your ideas for AI or network-based applications that can use the BlueField DPU and its hardware acceleration, and your best hacking abilities!
Register a team of up to 5 people. If you don't have a team, please reach out to DOCAHackathon@nvidia.com and we’ll try to match you with others to form a team. We encourage participants to start forming teams before registration.
Have your team leader submit the form on this page. Then the team lead will receive a confirmation email with a registration link for the rest of the team. After your team has registered, you may still modify your application by re-submitting the form and indicating that you’re amending your previous registration. Submissions will be evaluated by an admissions committee who decides which ideas enter the hackathon.
The competition is open to any solution that runs on and/or leverages the hardware acceleration of the BlueField DPU.
The judges will evaluate both the level of innovation and vision in using the BlueField DPU and the execution of the idea.
Teams can be formed by people from different countries and organizations.
Participants will get a full 24 hours to develop and test their application. The schedule will be custimized for each event.
For further inquiries you can send an email to DOCAHackathon@nvidia.com.
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Mr. Gindi has served as NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Investments since completion of Mellanox acquisition (4/2020) and served at the same role in Mellanox since February 2015.
As Mergers & Acquisition Executive Mr. Gindi established an excellent track record with ~$1.5B on the buy side (~14 transactions) and ~$7B on the Sell side.
Overseeing Nvidia Networking Ventures (formerly Mellanox Capital) Mr. Gindi as a Corporate-VC with >15 investments from establishment to an evergreen venture arm. Mr. Gindi joined Mellanox in 2000 as a software engineer, holding numerous roles including firmware/software development, solution validation, Business Development. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Gindi worked at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Mr. Gindi graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Dror joined Nvidia in 2020 as part of the Mellanox acquisition. He joined Mellanox as an architect in 2000 to work on exciting network innovations. Dror drove silicon and system architecture of multiple generations of NICs, Switches and SoCs. Dror’s main focus nowadays is on software architecture, enabling network accelerations of cool technologies like artificial intelligence, HPC, cloud, storage, big data, security and more. He has organized more than a dozen Hackathons and is passionate about innovations. Dror holds several patents in the field of high speed networking. He graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and holds an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology Israel.
Michael Kagan is NVIDIA CTO (Chief Technology Officer) since May 2020. He joined NVIDIA through Mellanox acquisition.
Michael Kagan was previously Mellanox CTO and a co-founder of Mellanox that was founded in April 1999.
From 1983 to April 1999, Mr. Kagan held a number of architecture and design positions at Intel Corporation. While at Intel Corporation, Mr. Kagan was architect of the i860XP vector processor, managed Pentium MMX design, and managed the architecture team of the Basic PC product group.
Mr. Kagan holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
Amit Krig joined NVIDIA in 2020, through the acquisition. In Mellanox, Amit was Senior Vice President of Software and Nic product line and previously Vice President of solution validation and program management Mr. Krig joined Mellanox in 2000 as a software engineer, holding numerous roles including software development, solution validation, post-silicon program management and customer project management. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Krig worked at Intel Corporation. Mr. Krig graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Computer Science from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
Yaël Asseraf Shenhav is vice president of Business Ethernet NIC and DPU at NVIDIA, leading the Ethernet network adapter and DPU business and products. Previously, she was managing all product lines at Mellanox Technologies and earlier was head of Application Engineering and ROW Presales. Yaël also held a number of architecture and design positions at Mellanox, Intel and in the space telecommunications industry over her 20 years in technology and management. She holds an engineering degree from Sup’Aero, the French National Aeronautics and Space Engineering School, with a major in telecommunications and space engineering.
Vice President of Storage Technology
Rob Davis is the Vice President of Storage Technology at the Nvidia Networking BU where he focuses on ways to apply high-speed interface technology to storage systems. As technology leader and visionary for more than 35 years, he has been a key evaluator and decision maker for the development of storage networking products. He is currently leading the development and marketing of products based on NVMe over fabrics, which will allow for the high-speed networking of PCIe-based storage.
Mr. Davis was previously Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at QLogic, where for 15 years he drove development and marketing of Fibre Channel, Ethernet and InfiniBand technology into new markets such as blade servers. Prior to QLogic, Davis spent 20 years at Ancor Communications, which QLogic acquired in 2000. At Ancor, Davis served as Vice President of Advanced Development, Director of Technical Marketing, and Director of Engineering. He drove development and marketing of their Fibre Channel products in the early 90s and their InfiniBand products in the late 90s.
Davis’ in-depth expertise spans Virtualization, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, InfiniBand, RoCE, SAS, PCI, PM, SATA, and Flash Storage.
Erez Cohen acts as NVIDIA Mellanox Vice President for Cloud Programs, responsible for all aspects of the programs including strategy, architecture, and implementation. The Cloud programs span across multiple cloud solutions including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Microsoft and VMware and incorporate NVIDIA state of the art network and storage interconnect products to form the most efficient and scalable enterprise, scientific, Telco and AI cloud infrastructure.
Mr. Cohen holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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