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10th Annual Unified Communication Framework Workshop and Consortium Meeting (UCF 2024)

Date: December 3-5, 2024

Hybrid Event (In-Person and Virtual via Zoom)

Location: AMD, 7171 Southwest Parkway, Building 100, Austin, Texas

We are delighted to invite researchers, network technology implementers, and users to participate in the 10th Annual Unified Communication Framework (UCF) Workshop and Consortium Meeting 2024. The aim of this gathering is to facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas, state-of-the-art developments, and user experiences, while providing an event to have a dialogue within our growing community. Registration information can be found here.

UCF Annual Meeting and Workshop 2024 Agenda

3-Dec

Start Time

Session Title

Presenter

09:00-09:15

Opening Remarks and UCF

Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA)

09:15-10:00

UCX in the AMD Instinct MI300 Series Accelerators Eco-System

Edgar Gabriel (AMD)

10:00-11:00

UCX Network Plugin for NCCL

Thomas Vegas (NVIDIA)

11:00-11:30

Lunch

11:30-12:15

UCX Protocols for Multi-GPU Communication Across NVLink Network

Ashkay Venkatesh, Mikhail Brinskii, Yossi Itigin, Ilia Yastrebov (NVIDIA)

12:15-13:00

EFA Support on UCX

Thomas Vegas (NVIDIA)

13:00-13:45

Hybrid DCS – New DCI Allocation Policy

Roie Danino (NVIDIA)

4-Dec

Start Time

Session Title

Presenter

09:00-09:15

Day 2 Open and Recap

Pavel Shamis (Pasha) (NVIDIA)

09:15-10:00

Optimizing MPI Shared Memory Communication for Modern Multi-core Systems

Yanfei Guo, Ken Raddenetti, Hui Zhou, Rajeev Thakur (ANL)

10:00-11:00

Cross-GVMI UMR Memory Key Pool Optimization

Ilia Yastrebov, Yong Qin (NVIDIA)

11:00-11:30

Lunch

11:30-12:15

Enhanced Stream API

Artmey Kovalyov (NVIDIA)

12:15-13:00

Addressing Aggregate Efficiency and Offload of RMA Operations at Scale

Aaron Welch (ORNL), Oscar Hernandez (ORNL) Steve Poole (LANL), Wendy Poole (LANL), Shubhendra Singhal (GT), Akihiro Hayashi (GT)

13:00-13:45

Global Virtual Address

Artmey Kovalyov (NVIDIA)

Deadlines

  • Abstract submission for a talk and paper due date: October 2, 2024

  • Author notification for abstract acceptance for talk: October 13, 2024

  • Slides for presentations: December 1, 2024

  • Conference presentation: December 3-6, 2024

Information for Technical Talks

Technical Talks require a 250-word abstract and the duration of the presentation can be 30mins or 60mins total (including Q&A). The final presentation slides are required to be provided to the organizers at the event.

Program Committee Members

  • Yong Chen (Texas Tech)

  • John Liedel (Tactical labs)

  • Steve Poole (LANL) 

  • Matthew Baker (Voltron Data)

  • Oscar Hernandez (ORNL)

  • Manjunath Gorentla (NVIDIA)

  • Christopher Zimmer (ORNL)

  • Jacques Pienaar (Google) 

  • Tony Pena (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

  • Edgar Gabriel (AMD)

  • Pavel Shamis (NVIDIA)

  • Christopher Taylor (Tactical Computing Lab)

  • DK Panda (Ohio State University)

Conference Location

AMD, 7171 Southwest Parkway, Building 100, Austin, TX 78735

Directions:

  • Make sure you turn in at 7171 as other driveways will not connect to the correct building.

  • When you pull onto the campus and follow the curve of the driveway, there will be a building on your right side with circular driveway and three large flagpoles. This is Building 100.

  • Guest parking is available on all levels of the parking structure straight ahead as you pass Building 100.

  • Conference room is located in Building 500.

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