2021 OFA Virtual Workshop
March 15-19, 2021
About the Workshop
The 17th annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop will be taking place virtually March 15-19, 2021. 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
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Below is the OFA Virtual Workshop 2021 agenda*
*All times are PDT. The below schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Monday, March 15
Evolution of Interconnects and Fabrics To Support Future Compute Infrastructure
Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Corp.
8:00-9:00am
Designing a ROCm-aware MPI Library for AMD GPUs over High-speed Networks
Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University
9:00-9:30am
Break
9:30-10:00am
INEC: In-Network Erasure Coding
Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced
10:00-10:30am
Understanding Compute Express Link 2.0: A Cache-coherent Interconnect
Jim Pappas, CXL Consortium
10:30-11:00am
Suresh Srinivasan, Intel Corp.
11:00-11:30am
Tuesday, March 16
RDMA Spark Meets OSU INAM: Performance Engineering Big Data Applications on HPC Clusters
Dr. Aamir Shafi, The Ohio State University
8:00-8:30am
Accelerating HPC Runtimes such as OpenSHMEM with COPA
David Ozog, Intel Corp.
8:30-9:00am
Remote Persistent Memory Access as Simple as Local Memory Access
Tomasz Gromadzki, Intel, Corp.
9:00-9:30am
Break
9:30-10:00am
Brendan Cunningham, Cornelis Networks
10:00-10:30am
Overview of Gen-Z Linux Subsystem, Fabric Manager, and Bridge Driver Development
Jim Hull, Gen-Z Consortium
10:30-11:00am
OpenFabrics Management Framework (Birds of a Feather)
Michael Aguilar, Sandia National Laboratories; Russ Herrell, HPE; Jeff Hilland, HPE; Paul Grun
11:00am-12:00pm
Wednesday, March 17
How to efficiently provide software-defined storage using SmartNICs
Jonas Pfefferle, IBM Research
8:00-8:30am
Infiniband reliability engineering - stories from a public cloud
Vladimir Chukov, 1&1 IONOS
8:30-9:00am
Progress of upstream GPU RDMA support
Jianxin Xiong, Intel Corp.
9:00-9:30am
Break
9:30-10:00am
Status of OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) Support in MPICH
Yanfei Guo, Argonne National Laboratory
10:00-10:30am
Introduction to the OFA Fabric Software Development Platform
Tatyana Nikolova, Intel Corp.
10:30-11:00am
To logo program, or not to logo program? (Birds for a Feather)
Tatyana Nikolova, Intel Corp.; Doug Ledford, Red Hat, Inc.
11:00am-12:00pm
Thursday, March 18
sRDMA: secure transport for Remote Direct Memory Access
Konstantin Taranov, ETH Zurich
8:00-8:30am
Supporting Live Migration of VMs communicating with bare-metal RDMA endpoints
Jorgen Hansen, VMware
8:30-9:00am
Efficient MPI Offloading Designs on Modern BlueField Smart NICs
Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University
9:00-9:30am
Break
9:30-10:00am
Designing a High-performance MPI library using In-Network Computing
Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University
10:00-10:30am
Performance Scaled Messaging v3 (PSM3) Architecture Overview
Todd Rimmer, Intel Corp.
10:30-11:00am
OFA Annual General Meeting
Doug Ledford, OpenFabrics Alliance
11:00am-12:00pm
Friday, March 19
Infiniband Developments around the T7 Trading Engine at the Deutsche Boerse
Christoph Lameter, Deutsche Boerse AG
8:00-8:30am
James Erwin, Intel Corp.
8:30-9:00am
Flatten the curve: Source Flow Control for sub-RTT management of network tail latency
Jeongkeun Lee, Intel Corp.
9:00-9:30am
Break
9:30-10:00am
Omni-Path Architecture Advanced IP
Mike Marciniszyn, Cornelis Networks
10:00-10:30am
Standards-based scalable fabrics management now and into the future
Richelle Ahlvers, Intel Corp.
10:30-11:00am
