<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">OFA Virtual Workshop 2024</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">April 22-23, 2024</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Join us for the 20th annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Virtual Workshop, taking place April 22-23, 2024. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">The Annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and create applications that rely on fabrics. It is the only event of its kind where fabric developers and users can discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address problems that exist today.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong
>OFA Virtual Workshop 2024 </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>April 22-23, 2024 </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>8:00am – 2:00pm PT </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Virtual</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Hosted on WebEx </strong></p><h4><br></h4><h4><br></h4><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Registration</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>The Workshop is hosted on WebEx. Both attendees and speakers will use the same WebEx meeting information. </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Registration is simple – Go to the<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/ofa-newsletter/?nltr=MjE7Nz
todHRwczovL3d3dy5vcGVuZmFicmljcy5vcmcvMjAyNC1vZmEtd29ya3Nob3AtaG9tZS87O2U0NDg1OTE1MWI3MjRhMzNmYzI2NTAwNTIyMTQ0MjQx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-original-title="" title=""><strong>2024 OFA Virtual Workshop page</strong></a> to download the invitation.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Please be respectful and courteous in this virtual environment. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"> </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Contact <a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-original-title="" title="">press@openfabrics.org</a> with questions. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><h4><strong>Sessions </strong></h4><ul><li>Keynote — 
;<strong>Pavan Balaji, Meta </strong></li><li>“OFI 2.0 Update” — <strong>Jianxin Xiong, Intel </strong></li><li>“Status of OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) Support in MPICH” — <strong>Yanfei Guo, Argonne National Laboratory</strong></li><li>“Designing In-Network Computing Aware Reduction Collectives in MPI” — <strong>Dhabaleswar Panda and Bharath Ramesh, The Ohio State University</strong></li><li>“High Performance & Scalable MPI library over Broadcom RoCE” — <strong>Mustafa Abduljabbar, The Ohio State University; Hemal Shah, Broadcom Inc; and Shulei Xu, The Ohio State University</strong></li><li>“Scaling Large Language Model Training using Hybrid GPU-based Compression in MVAPICH” — <strong>Aamir Shafi and Lang Xu, The Ohio State University</strong></li><li>“OFI Integrated Shared Memory Offload” — <stro
ng>Alexia Ingerson, Intel; Shi Jin, Amazon; and Amir Shehata, Oak Ridge National Laboratories</strong></li><li>"Managing Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure With OFA Sunfish" — <strong>Christian Pinto, IBM Research Europe; Michael Aguilar, Sandia National Laboratories; Phil Cayton, Intel; Russ Herrell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Brian Pan, H3 Platform</strong></li><li>"An Integrated Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Sunfish and HPC Workload Manager Composable Disaggregated Resource Scheduling" — <strong>Catherine Appleby and Michael Aguilar, Sandia National Laboratories</strong></li><li>"Cornelis Networks CN5000 Adapter and Software Update" — <strong>Dennis Dalessandro, Cornelis Networks</strong></li><li>"System Composability Using CXL" – <strong>Kurtis Bowman, CXL Consortium MWG Co-Chair</strong></li><li>"Optimized All-to-all Connection Establishment for High-Performance MPI Libraries over InfiniBand" — <
strong>Mustafa Abduljabbar and Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University</strong></li><li>"RecoNIC: RDMA-enabled Compute Offloading on FPGA-based SmartNIC" — <strong>Guanwen Zhong, AMD</strong></li><li>"Accelerating MPI AllReduce Communication with Efficient GPU-Based Compression Schemes on Modern GPU Clusters" —<strong> Hari Subramoni and Qinghua Zhou, The Ohio State University</strong></li><li>"How to setup RDMA CI using the FSDP cluster" —<strong> Doug Ledford, Redhat</strong></li><li>"How to do manual RDMA testing using the FSDP cluster" —<strong> Jeremy Spewock, UNH InterOperability Lab (IOL)</strong></li></ul><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><br><style data-iframe-mode="simple">.ql-align-left{text-align:left}.ql-align-center{text-align:center}.ql-align-right{text-align:right}p{margin:0;padding:0;line-height:1.231;}blockquote{margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc!important;paddin
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