UCF Virtual Workshop 2020

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You are registering for an open public standards setting discussion and development meeting of UCF. The discussions that take place during this meeting are intended to be open to the general public and all work product derived therefrom shall be made widely and freely available to the public. All information including exchange of technical information shall take place during open sessions of this meeting and UCF will not sponsor or support any private working group, standards setting or development sessions that may take place during this meeting. Your participation in any non-public interactions or settings during this meeting are outside the scope of UCF's intended open-public meeting format.

Dates

Nov 30 - Dec 3 (4 days)

Free registration for the event

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Location

Virtual - ZOOM (Zoom link to be provided)

Agenda

Open UCX Agenda (USA Central time zone)

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker/Moderator
11/30	08:00-09:00	UCF State of the Union	Gilad Shainer, Nvidia & Pavel Shamis, Arm
	09:00-10:00	GPU memory support Seamless support of GPU buffers communication introduces yet another dimension for designing optimal data transfer protocols. In this talk we will have open discussion about outstanding issues and challenges, including out-of-box performance, PCI topology support, rendezvous protocols, memory type cache and memory hooks, and more.	Yossi Itigin, Nvidia Yossi Itigin is a UCX team lead at NVIDIA, focuses on high-performance communication middleware, and a maintainer of OpenUCX project. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Itigin spent nine years at Mellanox Technologies in different technical roles, all related to developing and optimizing RDMA software.
	10:00-11:00	ROCM + UCX Plans	Sourav Chandra, AMD
	11:00-12:00	UCX for Apache Spark	Yossi Itigin, Nvidia
	12:00-13:00	UCX Python - Dask/RAPIDS	Ben Zaitlen, NVIDIA, Peter Entschev, NVIDIA, Matthew Baker, ORNL
12/01	08:00-09:00	UCF - Future directions	Steve Poole, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	09:00-10:00	UCP Protocols v2 In order to achieve out-of-box performance, UCX must select the optimal protocol for the given scenario, considering factors such as buffer length, memory locality, and data layout. In this talk we will present and discuss the next version of protocol selection mechanism, and make sure it will be able to handle that task.	Yossi Itigin, Nvidia Yossi Itigin is a UCX team lead at NVIDIA, focuses on high-performance communication middleware, and a maintainer of OpenUCX project. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. Itigin spent nine years at Mellanox Technologies in different technical roles, all related to developing and optimizing RDMA software.
	10:00-11:00	UCP Active messages API	Yossi Itigin, Nvidia
	11:00-12:00	UCX development in Huawei	Alex Margolin, Huawei
	12:00-13:00	Open Smart NIC API - State of the Union	Steve Poole, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12/02	08:00-09:00	BlazingSQL with UCX	Rodrigo Aramburu & Felipe Aramburu, BlazingSQL
	09:00-10:00	Charm++ with UCX	Nitin Bhat, Charmworks
	10:00-10:30	MPICH/UCX Update	Ken Raffenetti ,Argonne National Laboratory
	10:40-11:40	UCX counters in Score-P and Vampir	Shuki Zanyovka, Huawei
	11:40-12:40	Unified Communication Datatypes - State of the Union	Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
	12:40-13:00	Arm IP building blocks and standards for SmartNIC This talk describes the building-blocks available from Arm for modern SmartNICs/DPUs along with relevant standards enabling operating systems to boot on Arm-based SmartNICs without modification. Support for interfaces like CXL in Arm IP that targets future SmartNIC architectures is also discussed.	Kshitij Sudan, Arm Kshitij the Technical Assistant to the GM of Arm’s Infrastructure business unit. He is a systems architect and focuses on enabling Arm customers targeted different market segments using Arm IP. Kshitij holds a PhD in computer architecture from University of Utah.
12/03	08:00-09:00	UCC: Design and Implementation of Next Generation Collectives Library	Manju Gorentla, Nvidia
	09:00-09:30	One-to-many UCT transports, part I: Shared-memory	Alex Margolin, Huawei
	09:30-10:00	One-to-many UCT transports, part II: Multicast	Morad Horany, Huawei
	10:00-11:00	Until UCC is available - UCG status update	Alex Margolin, Huawei
	11:00-11:45	RDMA-CORE Linux kernel and user space updates	Jason Gunthorpe, Nvidia
	11:45-12:30	RDMA-CORE DMABUF	Jianxin Xiong, Intel
	12:30-13:30	Scaling Facebook's Deep Learning Recommender Model (DLRM) with UCC/XCCL	Josh Ladd, Nvidia & Srinivas, Facebook
	13:30-14:00	Open Smart NIC API - OpenSHMEM I/O Extensions for Fine-grained Access to Persistent Memory Storage	Megan Grodowitz, Arm