[mvapich-discuss] Call For Presentations: Seventh International MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting

Hari Subramoni subramoni.1 at osu.edu
Tue Apr 30 00:15:18 EDT 2019


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                         Call for Presentations



            Seventh International MVAPICH User Group Meeting

                            (MUG 2019)



               August 19-21, 2019, Columbus, Ohio, USA



                http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/

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The MVAPICH team is excited to host the 7th annual MVAPICH User Group

(MUG) meeting. It will take place from August 19-21, 2019 in Columbus,

Ohio, USA.  MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers,

developers, and system administrators to share their experience and

knowledge and learn from each other.  The event includes keynote

talks, invited tutorials, invited talks, contributed presentations,

open MIC session, hands-on sessions with MVAPICH developers, etc.



This year, we will be holding special tutorials and demo/hands-on

session during the first day of the event (August 19th.) Other talks

and sessions will be held on August 20-21.



The following Keynote Speakers and Invited speakers are confirmed for the
event. Other Invited Speakers are being finalized:



Keynote Speakers

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    * Dan Stanzione         Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

    * Robert Harrison       ICAS (Stony Brook) and CSC (Brookhaven)



Invited Speakers (Confirmed to date)

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    * Gene Cooperman            Northeastern University

    * Hyon-Wook Jin             Konkuk University (South Korea)

    * Jithin Jose               Microsoft Azure

    * Pramod Kumbhar            Blue Brain Project, EPFL (Switzerland)

    * Vikram Saletore           Intel

    * Jeffrey Salmond           University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

    * Gilad Shainer             Mellanox

    * Sameer Shende             Paratools and University of Oregon

    * Sayantan Sur              Intel

    * Mahidhar Tatineni         San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)



Tutorials and Demos

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    * A tutorial from ARM on advanced features of ARM Forge.



    * A tutorial from IBM on advanced features of the OpenPOWER

      Architecture.



    * A tutorial from Mellanox focusing on the upcoming technologies,

      schemes, and techniques to be made available in next-generation

      Mellanox adapters and switches for Exascale systems.



    * How to Boost the Performance and Scalability of Your HPC and

      AI Applications with MVAPICH2 Libraries.



More details are available at the following website

http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/



Topics

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We invite MVAPICH users to submit short, contributed presentations to

be included in MUG. Topics for presentations include, but are not

limited to:



·         Case studies and best practices of novel applications from

different application domains, such as astronomy, bioinformatics,

       biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, fluid dynamics,

       materials science and engineering, medicine, physics, machine

       learning and deep learning



·         Performance and scalability studies of applications on

large-scale systems



·         Special tuning and optimization strategies to exploit maximum

performance and scalability



·         Tools and code instrumentation for measuring and monitoring

performance and/or resilience



·         Tools for parallel program development (e.g., debuggers and

integrated development environments)



·         Unique usage scenarios such as GPGPUs, Xeons, Xeon Phis, FPGAs,

PGAS, Energy-Awareness, Virtualization, etc.



Submission Information

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The submission should include



    * Title of the presentation

    * Details of the speaker(s)

    * Short bio of the speaker(s)

    * A draft version of the presentation

        - Around 10-15 slides in PDF or PowerPoint format



Send your submission as a single file to mug at cse.ohio-state.edu.



Important Dates

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Presentation Submission Deadline:       July  1, 2019

Notification of Acceptance:             July  7, 2019

Early Registration Deadline:            July 22, 2019



Student Travel Support (Pending)

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A set of travel awards for students from US academic institutions

interested in attending and presenting at MUG ’19 will be provided

through a grant from NSF (pending).



Interested students are requested to submit the following materials

(items 1, 2 and 3 included in a single .pdf file) to

mug at cse.ohio-state.edu. Applications will be considered until July

1st 2019. However, decisions will be made in batches as the applications

arrive. Students are encouraged to apply early.



1. A short (1-2 page) document describing the following:

    a. Contact details

        - University, department, institutional e-mail address,

          and phone number

    b. Brief overview of current research

    c. Experience with HPC systems (hardware, software, and

       applications), high-performance virtualization, MPI/PGAS, and

       deep learning middleware

    d. What you would like to learn from attending MUG ’19?

    e. Interest in presenting a poster about your work with a title

       and a short abstract

2. A copy of your CV

3. Requested travel cost (including hotel and registration) with

   justification

4. An e-mail approval from the student’s adviser supporting the travel

   and indicating that the travel cost will not be reimbursed from any

   other sources.



Event Sponsors

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This event is sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, ParaTools, Ohio

Supercomputer Center, X-ScaleSolutions, and The Ohio State University.

If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please send a note to

mug at cse.ohio-state.edu.



Further Information

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Please visit http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu for more

information about MUG'19, including the program, registration, travel &
lodging.



Thanks,


The MVAPICH Team.
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