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<a name="_MailOriginal">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:</a></p>
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<span style=""> - Two Keynote Talks by Luiz DeRose from Oracle and Gilad Shainer from NVIDIA</span></p>
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<span style=""> - Seven Tutorials/Demos (AWS, NVIDIA, Oracle, Rockport Networks, X-ScaleSolutions, and The Ohio State University)</span></p>
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<span style=""> - 16 Invited Talks from many organizations (LLNL, INL, Broadcom, Rockport Networks, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Paratools and
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<span style=""> University of Oregon, CWRU, SDSC, TACC, KISTI, Konkuk University, UTK, Redhat, NSF, X-ScaleSolutions, and OSC)</span></p>
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<span style=""> - 12 Short Presentations from the MVAPICH2 project members</span></p>
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<span style=""> - A talk on the Future Roadmap of the MVAPICH2 Project</span></p>
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<span style=""> - A special session on the newly funded NSF AI Institute - ICICLE (</span><a href="https://icicle.osu.edu/"><span style="">https://icicle.osu.edu/</span><span style=""></span></a><span style="">)
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<span style="">The detailed program is available from </span><a href="http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/program/"><span style="">http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/program/</span><span style=""></span></a><span style="">
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<span style="">All interested parties are welcome to attend the event free. The registration link is available from the following link:</span></p>
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<span style="">Looking forward to your participation at the event!!</span></p>
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<span style="">Thanks, </span></p>
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<span style="">The MVAPICH Team</span></p>
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<span style="">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.</span></p>
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