9th Annual UCF Workshop and Annual Meeting 2023

9th Annual UCF Workshop and Meeting 2023 (Dec 5-7, 2023), Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid Event (In-Person and Virtual via Zoom)

Location

Arm Headquarters Building 1, 5707 Southwest Pkwy #100, Austin, TX

Registration

Please register using this form

Agenda

The event agenda can be found here

Overview

We are delighted to invite researchers, network technology implementers, and users to participate in the Annual Unified Communication Framework (UCF) Workshop and Consortium Meeting 2023. 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 will become available in November.

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 and paper due date: October 2, 2023 (extended)
• Author notification for abstract acceptance for talk: October 13, 2023 (extended)

• Slides for presentations: December 1, 2023 (extended)
• Conference presentation: December 5-7, 2023

Program Committee Members

To be announced (TBA)

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.