A team of DeepWave researchers (Juan Daniel Romero, Nick Luiken and Miguel Angel Corrales Guerrero) was awarded the Best Performance achievement for accelerating their Primal-dual algorithm for image segmentation during the 8th KAUST-NVIDIA Hackathon. The team  received an NVIDIA GPU RTX 3080Ti card for this feat. The event provides an opportunity for participants to learn about the latest advances by NVIDIA in Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence as well as showcasing the related KAUST success stories using GPUs.