9th Annual UCF Workshop and Annual Meeting 2023
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The event agenda can be found here
- ARM, Austin
- Address: 1, 5707 Southwest Pkwy #100, Austin, TX 78735
- Google maps: click here
- Main Entrance:
- Parking Arrangements:
a) You can park on the street
b) Covered parking on the left (please make sure that the spot is not registered):
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 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
- 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
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.