[Mug-conf] Call for Presentations - MUG '21 Conference

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is excited to host the 9th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) conference. It will take place from August 23-25, 2021. MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experiences 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 sessions from the sponsors during the first day of the event (August 23rd). Other talks and sessions will be held on August 23-25. 

A set of short contributed presentations from MVAPICH users will be included in the event. 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 GPUs, FPGAs, PGAS, Energy-Awareness, Virtualization, etc. 

Submission Procedure:

Submission should include the title of the presentation, speaker(s), a short bio of the speaker(s), and a draft version of the presentation (around 10-15 slides in PDF or PowerPoint format). Send your submission in a single file to mug at cse.ohio-state.edu. 

Important Dates:

Presentation Submission Deadline:      July 19, 2021
Notification of Acceptance:                  July 25, 2021

If you have any additional questions regarding the submission, send us a note to mug at cse.ohio-state.edu.

More details on the MUG '21 conference are available from http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/

Looking forward to your submission!!

The MVAPICH Team

PS: The MVAPICH community would like to thank the following sponsors (confirmed so far) for MUG '21: NVIDIA, The Ohio State University, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Paratools, Rockport Networks, and X-ScaleSolutions.