UCX

The UCF consortium will hold the 2018 UCX and RDMA annual meeting on December 10-12, at the Arm facilities in Austin Texas. This year the annual meeting will cover multiple topics around the UCX framework and RDMA, development, usage and futures.

	Monday, 10 December, 2018 UCX – State Of the Union	Tuesday, 11 December, 2018 UCX – API Discussions	Wednesday, 12 December, 2018 RDMA CORE
8:30 AM	Reception, Arm Lobby	Reception, Arm Lobby	Reception, Arm Lobby
9:00 AM	Keynote Future of HPC, Steve Poole, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Keynote UCX and MPI on Astra at Sandia National Laboratory	Keynote RDMA Core Overview, Jason Gunthorpe
10:00 AM	Topic UCX Roadmap 2019 and UCX 2.0 Abstract Things we would like to change/optimize/cleanup in next UCP API, and backward compatibility considerations Speaker Pasha/ARM and Yossi/Mellanox	Topic UCT component architecture Abstract Split UCT to modules, and load them dynamically, so missing dependencies would disable only the relevant transports Speaker Yossi/Mellanox	Topic RDMA-CM discussion Speaker Yossi/Mellanox Topic Verbs API send/complete disaggregation API directions Speaker Jason Gunthorpe / Mellanox
11:00 AM	Topic Open MPI integration with UCX Updates Speaker Mellanox	Topic UCP Active message API Abstract Discuss active messages implementation on UCP level Speaker Yossi/Mellanox	Topic Verbs, DevX and DV / how UCX will be using these features Speaker Jason Gunthorpe/Mellanox
12:00 PM	** Working Lunch ** Topic Regression and testing for multiple uarch (x86/Power/ARM) and interconnects ( RoCE, iWARP, TCP, etc.) Speaker All	** Working Lunch ** Topic 1. Multi-uarch support for various architectures, 2. Internal memcpy (DPDK style) Speaker All	** Working Lunch ** Topic UCX Upstream RDMA-core support status Speaker Yossi/Mellanox Topic SELinux Speaker Daniel Jurgens/Mellanox
1:00 PM	Topic UCX specification and manages update Speaker Brad/AMD	Topic 1. Async progress for protocols, 2. Internal memcpy (DPDK style) Abstract Progress various protocols, such as rendezvous, stream, disconnect, RMA/AMO emulation using progress thread Speaker All	Topic 1. Verbs ODP MR improvements, 2. RDMA and containers Speaker Parav/Mellanox
2:00 PM	Topic Support for shmem signaled put Abstract How to support new OpenSHMEM primitive – put with signal Speaker Yossi/Mellanox	Topic OpenMPI BTL over UCT Abstract UCT API freeze Speaker Nathan/Los Alamos National Laboratory	Topic Thread safety, fine-grained locking Abstract Discuss what is needed in UCP and UCT to support better concurrency than a big global lock Speaker Yossi/Mellanox
3:00 PM	Topic MPICH with UCX – State of the union Speaker Ken/Argonne National Laboratory	Topic OpenSHMEM context to UCX worker mapping Speaker Manju/Mellanox	Topic Xpmem support for tag matching Abstract Use 1-copy for expected eager messages using UCT tag-offload API Speaker Yossi/Mellanox
4:00 PM	Topic OSSS SHMEM with UCX update Speaker Tony/Stony Brook University	Topic UCX GPU Support. Abstract 1. State of the Union by AMD and NVIDIA 2. Datatypes for GPU devices Speaker Akshay/NVIDIA, Khaled/AMD, Brad/AMD	Topic Stream API and close protocol Abstract Using stream API as replacement for TCP and considerations of closing/flushing a connection Speaker Yossi/Mellanox
5:00 PM	Topic MVAPICH Status Abstract Latest development around MVAPICH Speaker Ohio State University	Topic UCX Collectives Speaker Khaled/AMD Topic UCX + Python bindings Speaker Akshay/NVIDIA	Topic High availability, failover Abstract How to implement fabric error recovery by using multiple devices/ports Speaker Yossi/Mellanox
6:00 PM	Open Discussion	Open Discussion	Open Discussion