Annual Meeting 2023

9th Annual UCF Workshop and Meeting 2023

Held annually, the UCF Workshop and Consortium Meeting is aimed at researchers, network technology implementers, and users who are interested in sharing their ideas with a wider community about their state-of-the-art developments, user experiences and research topics. The workshop provided insights and discussions on a range of topics of interests around the consortium’s growing projects. Videos of each day and slides are available via the agenda below:

UCF Annual Meeting and Workshop 2023 Agenda

5-Dec

Watch Day 1 Video

Start Time

Session Title

Presenter

9:00

Opening Remarks and UCF Overview

Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA)

9:15

Recent Advances in UCX for AMD GPUs
View Slide

Edgar Gabriel (AMD)

10:00

UCX Backend for Realm: Design, Benefits, and Feature Gaps
View Slide

Hessam Mirsadeghi (NVIDIA), Akshay Venkatesh (NVIDIA), Jim Dinan (NVIDIA), Sreeram Potluri (NVIDIA), Nishank Chandawala (NVIDIA)

11:00

Lunch

11:30

Use In-Chip Memory for RDMA Operations
View Slide

Roie Danino (NVIDIA)

12:15

Low-Latency MPI RMA: Implementation and Challenges

Thomas Gillis (ANL), Ken Raffenetti (ANL), Yanfei Guo (ANL)

13:00

UCX Protocols for NVIDIA Grace Hopper
View Slide

Akshay Venkatesh (NVIDIA), Hessam Mirsadeghi (NVIDIA), Jim Dinan (NVIDIA), Nishank Chandawala (NVIDIA), Sreeram Potluri (NVIDIA)

6-Dec

Watch Day 2 Video

Start Time

Session Title

Presenter

9:00

Day 2 Open and Recap

Pavel Shamis (Pasha)(NVIDIA)

9:15

An Implementation of LCI Backend Using UCX
View Slide

Weixuan Zheng (University of Illinois), Jiakun Yan (University of Illinois), Omri Mor (University of Illinois), Marc Snir (University of Illinois)

10:00

Spark Shuffle Offload on DPU
View Slide

Ofir Farjon (NVIDIA), Mikhail Brinskii (NVIDIA), Artemy Kovalyov (NVIDIA), Leonid Genkin (NVIDIA)

11:00

Lunch

11:30

Cross-GVMI UMR Mkey Pool
View Slide

Yong Qin (NVIDIA)

12:00

Enhanced Deferment for Aggregation Contexts in OpenSHMEM
View Slide

Aaron Welch (ORNL), Oscar Hernandez (ORNL), Steve Poole (LANL)

12:30

Wire Compatibility in UCX
View Slide

Mickail Brinskii (NVIDIA)

13:15

Dynamic Transport Selection
View Slide

Shachar Hasson (NVIDIA)

7-Dec

Watch Day 3 Video

Start Time

Session Title

Presenter

9:15

Symmetric Remote Key with UCX
View Slide

Thomas Vegas (NVIDIA), Artem Polyakov (NVIDIA)

10:15

Extending OpenSHMEM for Rust-on-RISC-V, Python, Nim, and HPX
View Slide

Christopher Taylor (Tactical Computing Laboratories)

11:00

Lunch

11:30

Offloading Tag Matching Logic to the Data Path Accelerator (DPA)
View Slide

Savatore Di Girolamo (NVIDIA), Mikhail Brinskii (NVIDIA)

12:15

UCX 2023: Latest and Greatest
View Slide

Yossi Itigin (NVIDIA)