7th Annual UCF Workshop and Annual Meeting 2021

7th Annual UCF Workshop and Annual Meeting 2021 (Nov. 20-Dec. 2, 2021)

This is a call for participation for the UCF consortium for its 7th annual meeting and workshop (UCF 2021) which will be held virtually in December 2021. The call 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 submissions can be for technical talks, posters, and tutorials. We also welcome submissions for Birds of Feather (BoF) or Panel sessions on topics of interests to the community..

The UCF annual meeting will covers multiple topics around the consortium’s growing projects, such as (but not limited to):

• Unified Communication X (UCX), UCX-Py, UCX-Jave, UCX-Go
• Unified Communication Collectives (UCC)
• OpenSNAPI
• RDMA user-space and kernel subsystem
• Data Processing Units (DPUs)/SmartNIC APIs
• Programming Models on top of UCF stack
• Open MPI, MPICH, OpenSHMEM, Julia, UPC, OpenMP remote offload
• Machine Learning and data sciences frameworks implemented on top of UCX
• Spark, BlazingSQL, Dask/RAPIDS, etc
• Network offloading of scientific libraries
• FFTs, etc
• Edge Computing and Scientific Instruments leveraging UCF technologies etc.
• Cloud-native Supercomputing networking technologies
• UCF the latest developments, usage and futures of its software stack.

Submissions will be done via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucf2021

Invitation to Participate Submissions are in the form of a 500-word abstract, where the participant proposes a topic and a type of submission. The submissions types are:

• Technical presentations
• Tutorials
• Lightning talks
• Birds of a Feather (BoF) or Panel discussions

All the submissions will be peer-reviewed by the UCF 2021 program committee.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submissions November 1st, 2021
• Acceptance notifications November 14th, 2021
• Presentation materials At the event
• Video Recordings* November 29th, 2021

See Proceedings & Video Recordings’ section below for details

Program Committee Members:

• Pavel Shamis, Arm
• Gilad Shainer, NVIDIA
• Steve Poole, LANL
• Jeff Kuehn, LANL
• Brad Benton, AMD
• Yanfei Guo, ANL
• Sameh Sharkawi, IBM
• Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, OSU
• Oscar Hernandez, NVIDIA

Information for Authors:

All submissions will be selected based on the submitted short abstract where the topic is appropriate for a technical audience. The program committee will review submissions based on the following criteria.

Concept of the submission and its relevance Technical depth and clarity Findings and results of your work Credentials and expertise in the subject matter Technical Talks.require a 500 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 organisers at the event.

Tutorials can include half-day format tutorials on a topic that provides developers an opportunity to spend more time exploring a specific UCF topic. Tutorial submissions are asked to submit a 500-1000 word abstract, an agenda and the preferred length of the tutorial (hours). The tutorials will be presented live.

Lightning talks require a 200 word abstract and the duration of the presentation is 5mins (2 slides). The goal of a lightning talk is to make the community aware of a given topic of the community. Lightning talks can be work in progress or new project announcements.

BoFs and Panel Discussions require a 500-1,000 word abstract and should include the session’s goal, topic, moderator information, panelists or presenters information, the expected outcome and how you plan to organize the session. These are scheduled to last 60 mins.