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

Hybrid Event (In-Person and Virtual via Zoom)

Registration

Please register using this form

Agenda

The event agenda can be found here

Location

• 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):

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 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

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.