<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>OFA Workshop 2024</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong> Call for Sessions Now Open</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>April 22-23, 2024</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>AT&T Hotel and Conference Center at UT Austin</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Austin, Texas</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: black;">The </span><a href="http://www.openfabrics.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA)</a><span style="color: black;"> has published a Call for Sessions for its annual OFA Workshop taking place in Austin, Texas, April 22-23, 2024. The Annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and cre
ate 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. For more information about the OFA Workshop, visit the </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;">Workshop website</a><span style="color: black;">. </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 OFA Workshop 2024 is coming up fast, taking place in Austin, Texas on April 22-23, 2024. </span><strong style="color: black;">We encourage attendees to confirm their travel arrangements as soon as possible. Registration will open soon. </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;">The OFA Workshop 2024 will focus on the following overarching themes that cover advanced network technology, innovative networking approaches, and the open community:</span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><ul><li><span style="color: black;">Network Protocols and Technology </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">L2-L4 Protocols </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Congestion Control </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Virtual Subnet Management </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">High-Performance Software </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">RDMA subsystem (kernel/userspace) </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color
: black;">Kernel/OS-bypass communication </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Zero-copy techniques </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Low-level networking APIs </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">New Language Bindings </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">MPI, PGAS, other HPC programming models </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Other ULPs </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Hardware Acceleration and In-network Compute </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">GPU, FPGA, Other accelerators </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"
><span style="color: black;">Switch-based compute and RDMA </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">P2P communication </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Compute APIs pertaining to networking </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Broader Ecosystem, Community, and Standards </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">SNIA</span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Ultra Ethernet Consortium </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">DMTF </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">PCIe </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">CXL &
nbsp;</span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">FSDP </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">NVMe </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">State-of-Practice </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Cloud provider </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Hyperscaler </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Academia </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Research lab </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Composable Infrastructure </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">RDMA with CXL </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">CXL Switching </sp
an></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">CXL memory technologies </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Other composable technologies </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">AI and ML </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Machine Learning framework optimizations </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Collective communication </span></li><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">Impact of data/model parallelism techniques on networking</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Other Topics</span></li></ul><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 OFA
Workshop 2024 </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/2024-ofa-workshop-call-for-sessions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: black;">Call for Sessions</a><span style="color: black;"> encourages industry experts and thought leaders to help shape this year’s discussions by presenting or leading discussions on critical high-performance networking issues. Session proposals are being solicited in any area related to high performance networks and networking software, with a special emphasis on the topics for this year’s Workshop. In keeping with the Workshop’s emphasis on collaboration, proposals for Birds of a Feather sessions and panels are particularly encouraged. </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: rgb(35, 31, 32);">To submit a speaking proposal, visit </span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.
outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dofaws2024&data=05%7C02%7Clnardozza%40nereus-worldwide.com%7Cbd7e3f652a5b4d27119008dc274b0739%7C48d2c3de83454a8893c521ec0de71de4%7C0%7C0%7C638428450425590846%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Bese%2Fa%2FpX3hkCU8%2Behxz4H0VIVjuVYPTcT9%2FDM8p%2B9o%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ofaws2024</a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </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: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Proposals must be received by </span><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">March 14, 2024, 5:00 PM PST</strong><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">. The Technical
Program Committee (TPC) will respond to proposals by </span><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">April 1, 2024.</strong><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">We strongly encourage submitters to provide as much advanced presentation material and/or background information as possible in their proposals to help with the TPC’s evaluations. There will be a separate, camera-ready submission deadline for presentations closer to the workshop, to give authors an opportunity to revise their submission with additional content or results as necessary.</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: rgb(35, 31, 32);">We invite you to forward this email to peers and colleagues who may be intereste
d in contributing their expertise to the workshop, as well.</span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Please contact <a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press@openfabrics.org</a><span style="color: rgb(219, 86, 13);"> </span>with questions related to the Call for Sessions.</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;">More information about the OFA Workshop 2024 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 22-23, 2024, will be announced soon. </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Thank you,</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">OFA Press Team</p><br><style data-iframe-mode
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