<p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>OFA Virtual Workshop 2024</strong><strong style="color: red;"> </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>April 22-23, 2024</em><strong> </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: red;"> Call for Sessions Extended to March 21</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: red;"> </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: red;"> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">The OFA Workshop 2024 is now virtual to accommodate all interested attendees and the Call for Sessions is extended by one week. Proposals are now due by <strong>Thursday, March 21 at 5:00PM Pacific Time. </strong>The Technical Program Committee will respond to proposals by<strong> April 1. </strong> </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: bla
ck;">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 &nb
sp; </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 compu
te 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 </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></ul><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">o Composable infrastructure implemented with RDMA </p><ul><li class="ql-indent-1"><span style="color: black;">CXL Switching </spa
n></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 W
orkshop 2024 Call for Sessions 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%7C48d2c3de83454a8893c5
21ec0de71de4%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" style="color: blue;" data-original-title="" title="">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;"><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 interested 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;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Registration:</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);">Registration will open 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;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Sponsorships:</strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p styl
e="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Virtual sponsorships will be available for OFA members to show your support of the Alliance’s mission to accelerate the development and adoption of advanced fabrics for the benefit of advanced network ecosystems. Sponsorships will be announced soon. </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">If you have questions at this time, please contact <a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press@openfabrics.org</a>. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Regards, </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">The OFA Press Team</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press@openfabrics.org</a><span style="color: black;">
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