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 TBD

Location

• Austin TX

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.