It is almost the one-year anniversary of the first Code-a-thon I helped organize for Texas A&M nuclear engineering students. It is a good time to reflect on what we did last year. A code-a-thon is an event where a group of people gathers, usually in one location, for a defined period of time to solve a particular problem. In our code-a-thon the students were tasked with developing a Monte Carlo code for thermal x-ray transport that was parallel using C++.
After the jump we go into a lot more detail.