03 18 2020 - openucx/ucx GitHub Wiki

Participants:

• Mikhail Brinskii (Mellanox)
• Dmitry Gladkov (Mellanox)
• Evgeny Leksikov (Mellanox)
• Manjunath Gorentla (Mellanox)
• Tomislav Janjusic (Mellanox)
• Sergey Obolomov (Mellanox)
• Sergey Lebdev (Mellanox)
• Valentin Petrov (Mellanox)
• Pavel Shamis (Arm)
• Alex Margolin (Huawei)
• Akshay (NVIDIA)
• Matt Baker (ORNL)

Agenda

• Library initialization
• Context initialization
• Component architecture
• Multifaceted API

UCC Virtual F2F

• Socializing the idea of f2f outside the working group
• Split the 5-day meeting across two consecutive weeks for convenience, productivity, and avoiding the weekend conflict
• Send out the poll (AI: Manju)

CLA - Pasha driving the conversation with UCF

Library initialization

• Discussion driven with slides (please see attached slides for context)
• Discussion on the usage model
• How to tailor the library for the required functionality, particularly Users requesting a particular set of collectives?
• How to read the configuration?
• Support all three options (1) Reading environment variables (2) Reading configuration files (3) Populating the options in the code

Wiki page for requesting interfaces from the UCX Team (AI: Manju)