From panda at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat Jul 11 07:14:49 2026 From: panda at cse.ohio-state.edu (Panda, Dhabaleswar) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:14:49 +0000 Subject: [Mvapich-discuss] Call for Participation (MUG '26 Conference to be held during August 17-19, 2026 in a Hybrid manner) Message-ID: The 14th annual MVAPICH User group (MUG) conference with an exciting program is getting finalized to be held in a hybrid manner from August 17-19, 2026. A preliminary program is available from http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/program/ All interested parties are welcome to attend the event. Online attendance is free. However, one must register for the conference in advance to get the WebEx link. The registration link is available from the following link: http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/registration/ Highlights of the conference include: - A Keynote Talk by Prof. Yutong Lu from Sun Yat-sen University and NSSC, China on the #1 supercomputer in the world (LineShine) - A Keynote Talk by Dan Stanzione from Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), USA on the upcoming LCCF Horizon system - Presentations on many topics related to HPC and AI: High-Performance MPI Implementations over various networks and accelerators, Communication Offload, In-Network Computing, Performance tuning for HPC and AI applications, Applications-level optimizations for HPC and AI workloads on many platforms, MPI-based communication for AI workload, Optimization of collective communication over CXL, Ultra Ethernet, High-Throughput and Scale-up Ethernet, High-Performance Inference, Predictive performance modeling and synthetic workload generation for parallel DNN and LLM training, and Overview of upcoming products for accelerating HPC and AI from many vendors - Eight tutorials and demos from Broadcom, Cornelis Networks, D-Matrix, Keysight, ParaTools, The Ohio State University, Univ. of Oregon, and X-ScaleSolutions - 15 invited/contributed talks from many organizations (Broadcom, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC, India), ETRI (South Korea), KAUST (Saudi Arabia), Keysight, Microsoft Azure, NSF, NVIDIA, ParaTools, San Diego Supercomputer Center, The Ohio State University, The Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, UPB (Romania), Univ. of Oregon, and X-ScaleSolutions) - A talk on the Future Roadmap of the MVAPICH project for HPC and AI - Two talks from Case Western University and The Ohio State University focusing on the AI, CI services, and domain specific services available from the NSF-AI ICICLE Institute (https://icicle.osu.edu/) for running AI workloads on computing continuum spanning edge to cloud/HPC centers - Multiple short presentations and posters by students The detailed program is available from http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/program/ Thanks to all sponsors for the MUG '26 conference ? Broadcom, Cornelis, d-Matrix, Keysight, NSF, NVIDIA, Ohio Supercomputer Center, The Ohio State University, Paratools, and X-ScaleSolutions!! Join us for the conference!! The MVAPICH Team