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