Call for Participation: 7th UCF Annual Meeting and Workshop 2021 (UCF 2021)

This is a call for participation for the UCF consortium for its 7th annual meeting and workshop (UCF 2021), which will be held virtually. The call 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. This year we have 21 talks from academia, national laboratories, and industry. The topics can be found in the agenda.

Registration	https://forms.gle/iU8U7WLDrd1LTVaD6
Agenda	https://github.com/openucx/ucx/wiki/UCF-2021-Schedule

The UCF annual meeting will cover multiple topics around the consortium's growing projects, such as (but not limited to):

• Unified Communication X (UCX), UCX-Py, UCX-Java, UCX-Go
• Unified Communication Collectives (UCC)
• OpenSNAPI
• RDMA user-space and kernel subsystem
• Data Processing Units (DPUs), SmartNIC APIs
• Programming Models on top of UCF stack
• Open MPI, MPICH, OpenSHMEM, Julia, UPC, OpenMP remote offload
• Machine Learning and data sciences frameworks implemented on top of UCX: Spark, BlazingSQL, Dask/RAPIDS, etc.
• Network offloading of scientific libraries: FFTs, etc
• Edge Computing and Scientific Instruments leveraging UCF technologies etc.
• Cloud-native Supercomputing networking technologies
• UCF: the latest developments, usage, and futures of its software stack

Program Committee Members:

• Pavel Shamis, Arm
• Gilad Shainer, NVIDIA
• Steve Poole, LANL
• Jeff Kuehn, LANL
• Brad Benton, AMD
• Yanfei Guo, ANL
• Matthew Dosanjh, SNL
• Yanfei Guo, ANL
• Bryant Lam, DoD
• Nicholas Park, DoD
• Matthew Baker, ORNL
• Pavan Balaji, Facebook
• Sameh Sharkawi
• Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, OSU
• Perry Schmidt, IBM
• Oscar Hernandez, NVIDIA