<p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/ofa-newsletter/?nltr=MjI7NztodHRwczovL3d3dy5vcGVuZmFicmljcy5vcmcvMjAyNC1vZmEtd29ya3Nob3AtaG9tZS87Ozk1ZDQwNjFmNTUwYzYxOTYxNDhlY2YyYzQxNTA5NjRk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-original-title="" title=""><strong>OFA Virtual Workshop 2024</strong></a></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/ofa-newsletter/?nltr=MjI7NztodHRwczovL3d3dy5vcGVuZmFicmljcy5vcmcvMjAyNC1vZmEtd29ya3Nob3AtaG9tZS87Ozk1ZDQwNjFmNTUwYzYxOTYxNDhlY2YyYzQxNTA5NjRk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-original-title="" title=""><strong>April 22-23, 2024</strong></a></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">The 20</span><sup style="color
: rgb(35, 31, 32);">th</sup><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span><span style="color: black;">annual </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;" data-original-title="" title="">OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Virtual Workshop</a><span style="color: black;">, is taking place April 22-23, 2024. It is 8:00am-2:00pm PT each day. </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: black;">The </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;">Annual OFA Workshop</a><span style="color: black;"> 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 fabr
ic developers and users can discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address problems that exist today.</span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>OFA Virtual Workshop 2024 </strong></a></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">April 22-23, 2024 </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">8:00am – 2:00pm PT </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Virtual</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Hosted on WebEx </strong>
</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;" data-original-title="" title=""><strong>Registration</strong></a></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: black;">The Workshop is hosted on WebEx. Both attendees and speakers will use the same WebEx meeting information. The Workshop is in Pacific Time. </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: black;">Registration is simple – visit the </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;" data-orig
inal-title="" title="">OpenFabrics Alliance Virtual Workshop 2024 website</a><span style="color: black;"> and download the </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;" data-original-title="" title="">WebEx information. </a></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: black;">Please be respectful and courteous in this virtual environment. </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Contact <a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press@openfabrics.org</a> with questions. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83);">202
4 OFA Virtual Workshop Sessions</span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">April 22-23, 2024</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">8:00am to 2:00pm Pacific Time</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Hosted on WebEx</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Day 1 </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Monday, April 22 </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;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-heigh
t: 1.231;"><strong>Opening Remarks </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Phil Cayton </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 8:00-8:05am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Keynote </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Pavan Balaji, Meta</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 8:05-9:00am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 1: "OFI 2.0 Update" </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Jianxin Xiong, Intel </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 9:00-9:30am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">15-minute br
eak </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 9:30-9:45am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 2: "Status of OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) Support in MPICH"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Yanfei Guo, Argonne National Laboratory</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 9:45-10:15am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 3: "Accelerating MPI AllReduce Communication with Efficient GPU-Based Compression Schemes on Modern GPU Clusters"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Hari Subramoni and Qinghua Zhou, The Ohio State University</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 10:15-10:45am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; lin
e-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">15-minute break </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 10:45-11:00am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 4: "High Performance & Scalable MPI library over Broadcom RoCE"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Mustafa Abduljabbar, The Ohio State University; Hemal Shah, Broadcom Inc; and Shulei Xu, The Ohio State University</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 11:00-11:30am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Lunch and email break </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">11:30am - 1:00pm PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-
height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 5: "Scaling Large Language Model Training using Hybrid GPU-based Compression in MVAPICH"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Aamir Shafi and Lang Xu, The Ohio State University</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 1:00-1:30pm PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 6: "OFI Integrated Shared Memory Offload"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Alexia Ingerson, Intel; Shi Jin, Amazon; and Amir Shehata, Oak Ridge National Laboratories</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 1:30-2:00pm PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>2:00pm PT - End of Day 1</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>&nb
sp;</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Day 2</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Tuesday, April 23 </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> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 7: "Managing Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure With OFA Sunfish"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Christian Pinto, IBM Research Europe; Michael Aguilar, Sandia National Laboratories; Phil Cayton, Intel; Russ Herrell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Brian Pan, H3 Platform </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 8:00-8:30am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>S
ession 8: "An Integrated Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Sunfish and HPC Workload </strong>Manager Composable Disaggregated Resource Scheduling"</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Catherine Appleby and Michael Aguilar, Sandia National Laboratories</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 8:30-9:00am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 9: "Cornelis Networks CN5000 Adapter and Software Update"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Dennis Dalessandro, Cornelis Networks</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 9:00-9:30am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">15-minute break </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;
">Time: 9:30-9:45am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 10: "System Composability Using CXL"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Kurtis Bowman, CXL Consortium MWG Co-Chair</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 9:45-10:15am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 11: "Optimized All-to-all Connection Establishment for High-Performance MPI Libraries over InfiniBand"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Mustafa Abduljabbar and Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 10:15-10:45am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><
p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 12: "RecoNIC: RDMA-enabled Compute Offloading on FPGA-based SmartNIC"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Guanwen Zhong, AMD</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 10:45-11:15am PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Session 13: "Designing In-Network Computing Aware Reduction Collectives in MPI"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Dhabaleswar Panda and Bharath Ramesh, The Ohio State University</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 11:15-11:45am PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Lunch and email break </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"
>11:45am-1:00pm PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Tutorial: "How to setup RDMA CI using the FSDP cluster" </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>and "How to do manual RDMA testing using the FSDP cluster"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speakers: Doug Ledford, Redhat and Jeremy Spewock, UNH InterOperability Lab (IOL)</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 1:00-1:55pm PT </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>Closing remarks </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Speaker: Doug Ledford </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Time: 1:55-2:00pm PT</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong
> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong>2:00pm PT - End of Workshop</strong></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;padding-left:1ex} </style>