10th Annual UCF Workshop and Annual Meeting 2024

10th Annual UCF Workshop and Meeting 2024 (Dec 3-5, 2024), Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid Event (In-Person and Virtual via Zoom)

Registration

Please register using this form

Agenda

The event agenda can be found here

Location

• AMD Offices at 7171 Southwest Pkwy, Austin, TX 78735

Overview

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 provides insights and discussions on a range of topics of interests around the consortium’s growing projects.

This year, we're pleased to announce that we will be accepting abstracts for talks. Following a review of abstracts, we will invite the selected authors to expand their abstract contributions into a talk. All contributions are subject to a peer-review process conducted by our program committee. Interested authors should initially submit a 250-word abstract of their talks. Once the abstract is accepted, authors will be encouraged to submit slides and present at UCF 2024.

Submit the abstract for your talk here: UCF 2024 Submissions (easychair)

This year, 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

Deadlines:

• Abstract submission for a talk due date: October 2, 2024
• Author notification for abstract acceptance for talk: October 13, 2024
• Slides for presentations: December 1, 2024
• Conference presentation: December 3-5, 2024

Program Committee Members

• DK Panda (Ohio State University)
• Yong Chen (Texas Tech)
• John Liedel (Tactical Computing labs)
• Steve Poole (LANL)
• Matthew Baker (Voltron Data)
• Oscar Hernandez (ORNL)
• Aaron Welch (ORNL)
• Manjunath Gorentla (NVIDIA)
• Tony Pena (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
• Edgar Gabriel (AMD)
• Pavel Shamis (NVIDIA)
• Christopher Taylor (Tactical Computing Lab)

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.