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<p class="MsoNormal">The High-Performance Deep Learning project, together with the MVAPICH<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/">http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/</a>) and High-Performance Big Data<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu) projects from the OSU Network-Based Computing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laboratory will be actively contributing to the $20M AI-Institute on Intelligent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cyberinfrastructure, announced by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303176">https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303176</a>). Prof. Dhabaleswar K.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(DK) Panda from the Ohio State University will be leading the overall institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with a core team of 46 academic researchers and scientists from 13<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">organizations. More details on the ICICLE institute are available from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/">https://icicle.osu.edu/</a> and
<a href="https://twitter.com/icicleai">https://twitter.com/icicleai</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A special session on the ICICLE will be held at the 9th Annual MVAPICH User<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group (MUG) Conference (<a href="http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/">http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/</a>). The MUG ‘21<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">event will be held in a virtual manner. Interested parties are invited to join<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">this event (free) by registering at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/registration/">http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/registration/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The HiDL Team.<o:p></o:p></p>
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