[Mug-conf] MUG '25 Call for Presentations

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is excited to host the 13th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) conference. It will take place from August 18-20, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It will be held in a hybrid manner. The MUG conference aims to bring together the MVAPICH users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experiences, knowledge and to learn from each other. The event includes keynote talks, invited tutorials, invited talks, contributed presentations, Open Mic session, hands-on sessions with the MVAPICH developers, etc.

This year, we will be holding special tutorials and demo/hands-on sessions during the first day of the event (August 18th). Other talks and sessions will be held on August 19-20. 

A set of short contributed presentations from the 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, and AI (machine learning, deep learning (training and inference))

- 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 with GPUs, DPUs, APUs, FPGAs, Energy-Awareness, Virtualization, Quantum simulation, etc. 

The submission should include the title of the presentation, speaker(s), short bio of the speaker(s), and a draft version of the presentation (around 10-15 slides in PDF or PowerPoint format).

Please send your submission in a single file to mug at cse.ohio-state.edu. 

Presentation Submission Deadline: 	July 11, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 	                July 18, 2025

More details on the conference and Call for Presentations are available from 
http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/

Thanks, 

The MVAPICH Team