[mvapich] Call For Presentations: Fifth International MVAPICH User Group Meeting

[Hari Subramoni]

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                         Call For Presentations

            Fifth International MVAPICH User Group Meeting
                            (MUG 2017)

               August 14-16, 2017, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/
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The MVAPICH team is excited to host the 5th annual MVAPICH User Group
(MUG) meeting. It will take place from August 14-16, 2017 in Columbus,
Ohio, USA.  MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers,
developers, and system administrators to share their experience 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
session during the first day of the event (August 14th) and part of
the last day (August 16th).  Other talks and sessions will be held
during August 15-16.

We already have the following invited speakers confirmed (so far)
for the event. Other Invited Speakers and Keynote Speakers are being
finalized:

Keynote Speakers (Confirmed so far)
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    * Dan Stanzione, Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Invited Speakers (Confirmed so far)
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    * Gene Cooperman    (North Eastern University)
    * Hyun-Wook Jin     (Konkuk University, South Korea)
    * Allen Malony      (University of Oregon)
    * Adam Moody        (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
    * Hoon Ryu          (Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Information - KISTI)
    * Jeffrey Salmond   (University of Cambridge, UK)
    * Karl Schulz       (Intel)
    * Gilad Shainer     (Mellanox)
    * Pavel Shamis      (ARM)
    * Filippo Spiga     (University of Cambridge, UK)
    * Sayantan Sur      (Intel)
    * Mahidhar Tatineni (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
    * Craig Tierney     (NVIDIA)
    * Abhinav Vishnu    (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
    * Hao Wang          (Virginia Tech)
    * Carsten Weinhold  (TU Dresden, Germany)

Tutorials (Confirmed so far)
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    * A tutorial from Intel focusing on the technologies, schemes, and
      techniques in designing efficient runtime support using the
      upcoming network architecture from Intel.

    * A tutorial from Mellanox focusing on the upcoming technologies,
      schemes, ands techniques being made available in next-generation
      Mellanox adapters ands switches for exascale systems.

    * A tutorial from NVIDIA focusing on the upcoming technologies,
      schemes, and techniques being made available in next-generation
      CUDA runtimes for GPU computing.

    * How to Boost the Performance of Your MPI and PGAS Applications
      with MVAPICH2 Libraries by the MVAPICH developers. This tutorial
      will focus on internal designs of the MVAPICH2 libraries,
      associated runtime parameters, the impact of tuning these
      parameters at the applications level and a set of `best
      practices' examples.

Topics
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We invite MVAPICH users to submit short, contributed presentations to
be included in MUG. 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 GPGPUs, MICs, PGAS,
      Energy-Awareness, Virtualization, etc.

Submission Information
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The submission should include

    * Title of the presentation
    * Details of the speaker(s)
    * 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 as a single file to mug at cse.ohio-state.edu.

Important Dates
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Presentation Submission Deadline    :   July  7, 2017
Notification of Acceptance          :   July 14, 2017
Early Registration Deadline         :   July 31, 2017

Student Travel Support (Pending)
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A set of travel awards, for students from US academic institutions
interested in attending and presenting at MUG '17, will be provided
through a grant from NSF (pending).

Interested students are requested to submit the following materials
(items 1, 2 and 3 included in a single .pdf file) to
mug at cse.ohio-state.ed <mug at cse.ohio-state.edu>u. Applications will be
considered until July
30th, 2017. However, decisions will be made in batches as the
applications arrive.
Students are encouraged to apply early.

1. A short (1-2 page) document describing the following:
    a. Contact details
        - University, Department, Institutional E-mail address,
          and Phone Number
    b. Brief overview of current research
    c. Experience with HPC systems (hardware, software, and
       applications), high-performance virtualization, MPI/PGAS, and
       Deep Learning middleware
    d. What you would like to learn from attending MUG '17?
    e. Interest in presenting a poster about your work with a title
       and a short abstract.
2. A copy of your CV
3. Requested travel cost (including hotel and registration) with
   justification
4. An e-mail approval from the student's adviser supporting the travel
   and indicating that the travel cost will not be reimbursed from any
   other sources.

Event Sponsors
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This event is sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, ParaTools, Ohio
Supercomputer Center and The Ohio State University. If you are
interested in sponsoring the event, please send a note to
mug at cse.ohio-state.edu.

Further Information
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Please visit http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu for more
information on MUG'17 (program, registration, travel & stay).

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team
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