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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.

We are pleased to announce that we will be accepting abstracts for talks and papers for UCF 2024. We aim to encourage a broad cross-section of the community to contribute to the workshop, enhancing the diversity and depth of our discussions. We are especially interested in delving deeper into the consortium’s expanding projects and related themes such as:

  • Unified Communication Framework Tools and Technologies:

    • Unified Communication X (UCX), UCX-Py, UCX-Java, UCX-Go

    • Unified Communication Collectives (UCC)

    • RDMA user-space and kernel subsystem

    • Data Processing Units (DPUs) / SmartNIC APIs

  • Programming and Computational Models:

    • Programming Models on top of UCF stack

    • Open MPI, MPICH, OpenSHMEM, Julia, UPC, OpenMP remote offload

  • Machine Learning, Data Science, and Libraries:

    • Machine Learning and data science frameworks implemented on top of UCX and UCC

    • Spark, Dask/RAPIDS, Apache Arrow on top of UCX, etc.

    • Network offloading of scientific libraries, FFTs, etc.

  • Emerging Technologies and Applications:

    • Edge Computing and Scientific Instruments leveraging UCF technologies, etc.

    • Cloud-native supercomputing networking technologies

    • Application experiences with network offload

  • Future of UCF and Evaluation Tools:

    • UCF: the latest developments, usage, and future prospects of its software stack

    • Benchmarks for in-network computing (e.g. DPUs)

    • Cost-models and simulation tools for understanding trade-offs in network offloading

Submit your abstracts here. 

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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