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<p class="MsoNormal">The 9th Annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) conference will be held virtually with free registration from August 23-25, 2021. An exciting program has been put together with the following highlights:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> - Two Keynote Talks by Luiz DeRose from Oracle and Gilad Shainer from NVIDIA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - Seven Tutorials/Demos (AWS, NVIDIA, Oracle, Rockport Networks, X-ScaleSolutions, and The Ohio State University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - 16 Invited Talks from many organizations (LLNL, INL, Broadcom, Rockport Networks, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Paratools and
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<p class="MsoNormal"> University of Oregon, CWRU, SDSC, TACC, KISTI, Konkuk University, UTK, Redhat, NSF, X-ScaleSolutions, and OSC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - 12 Short Presentations from the MVAPICH2 project members<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - A talk on the Future Roadmap of the MVAPICH2 Project<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - A special session on the newly funded NSF AI Institute - ICICLE (<a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/">https://icicle.osu.edu/</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">The detailed program is available from <a href="http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/program/">
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<p class="MsoNormal">All interested parties are welcome to attend the event free. The registration link is available from the following link:<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to your participation at the event!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The MVAPICH Team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS: The MVAPICH community would like to thank the following sponsors for MUG '21: AWS, NVIDIA, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Oracle, Paratools, Rockport Networks, The Ohio State University, and X-ScaleSolutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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