SCU Hack-a-Stack - Endurance Track
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
to Sunday, May 17, 2026
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1 day long
Artificial IntelligenceProductivityVoice Skills
Event Type
in person
14
Participants
$5,500
Prize Pool
1
Est. Projects
About the challenge
SCU Hack-a-Stack's Endurance Track will feature 5 submission tracks. The following tracks will leverage the tech-stack or functionality of the following sponsors:
Cisco:
AI Factory Ops: Engineering the Infrastructure Behind AI Competitors will be provided with a small synthetic dataset for an AI cluster. The dataset would serve as the environment, but the challenge would be to build AI-assisted tools that support operational decision-making. To make it accessible, each subtrack functions as a constrained decision problem.- AI App Performance Advisor
Given traffic, latency, error, and GPU usage data, recommend actions such as adding capacity, reducing load, rerouting traffic, or investigating errors. Example outcomes: lower latency, fewer failed requests, and better GPU usage. - GPU Job Placement Challenge
Given AI jobs that need different numbers of GPUs and a set of available GPU nodes, decide where jobs should run. Example outcomes: lower wait time, fewer idle GPUs, and fewer blocked large jobs. - AI Job Failure Detective
Given alerts, logs, metrics, and short runbooks, rank likely causes and recommend recovery actions such as retry, restart, move job, reduce load, or escalate. Example outcomes: better root-cause matching, faster recovery, and fewer wasted GPU hours.
SCU Ciocca Center
Adal
VoiceOS/HypeScribe
Future Unicorn
To be eligible to win a top 3 overall award, you must submit to both the Sprint track and the Endurance track.
