Northflank is the developer platform you’ll use to deploy your work, using compute provided by Coreweave.

tl;dr

• To get started, you first need to request access to the compute by filling out this form.

• Every participant gets an H100.

• You will receive an email from Northflank from [email protected].

• Accept your Northflank Team invite in your email, this will open your Northflank Team dashboard

• In your Northflank Project called team, you’ll have access to several VS Code dev containers with NVIDIA H100s.

  • Each member of your team has a development sandbox where they can work on their code in isolation without affecting others’ progress.
  • There’s also an extra shared team sandbox which you can use for submitting your code to the leaderboard

• Open the services page in Northflank and click on the instance you want to use

  

• Here you’ll find a URL for your VS Code instance, click it and you’ll be able to edit and run your code as usual

  

• You can submit your code by running python team/example_model.py --host $SERVER_HOST --port 8001 Keep in mind that if you close your tab/shell connection, the server will be killed. You can circumvent that by having a tab open at all times or running it inside a tool like tmux/screen.

In-depth guide

1. Your team will have a Northflank team and project associated to you. You’ll receive an invite for your team to your email address:

1. Once you’ve made an account and accepted the invite, you’ll be presented with the Northflank home page. Here you can find your project called team. You can click on it and this will navigate you to the project dashboard.

1. Your team will have access to development environments with NVIDIA H100s for your task.

On the project page, you’ll see a list of Services (Containers) – there’s one for each of your team’s participants as well as a shared one which is used for submitting your code to the leaderboard.

On the project page, click on the “View all” button to navigate to the services page.

1. From here, you can navigate to the corresponding service, e.g. participant-1.