UCX Report from SC15 !

Monday, November 23rd, 2015

We want to thank UCX community for a fantastic participation in SC15 events.This is the first SC conference when we had UCX Birds of a feather (BoF) session. We would like to thank ORNL, ANL, LLNL, LANL, USG, Nvidia, IBM, and Mellanox in active participation in this session. The session was followed by a panel were UCX advisors have been answering question from the community.

• ORNL’spresentation
• Nvidia’spresentation
• Argonne National Laboratory’s presentation

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UCX BoF:

UCX BoF presentation by Yossi:

UCX BoF presentation by Pavan Balaji:

UCX Demo at DoE Booth (Pasha and Manju):

UCX and OpenSHMEM posters at PGAS Booth:

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Early draft of UCX specification is here !

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

We are pleased to announce a first early draft (work in progress ) of the UCX specification for community review. Please access ithere.

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Paving the Road to Exascale

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

Scot Schultz from Mellanox Technologies talks aboutco-design architecture and OpenUCX collaboration atInsideHPC.

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UCX Presentation at 2015 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference

Tuesday, September 29th, 2015

Gilad Shainer presented the UCX effort at 2015 HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference.   The slides can be found here.

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“UCX: An Open Source Framework for HPC Network APIs and Beyond” paper was presented at IEEE HOTI 2015 Conference

Thursday, August 27th, 2015

Pavel Shamis (Pasha) from Oak Ridge National Laboratorypresented“UCX: An Open Source Framework for HPC Network APIs and Beyond” paper atIEEE HOTI 2015 conference.

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“This paper presents Unified Communication X (UCX), a set of network APIs and their implementations for high throughput computing. UCX comes from the combined effort of national laboratories, industry, and academia to design and implement a high-performing and highly-scalable network stack for next generation applications and systems. UCX design provides the ability to tailor its APIs and network functionality to suit a wide variety of application domains and hardware. We envision these APIs to satisfy the networking needs of many programming models such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenSHMEM, Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages, task-based paradigms and I/O bound applications. To evaluate the design we implement the APIs and protocols, and measure the performance of overhead-critical network primitives fundamental for implementing many parallel programming models and system libraries. Our results show that the latency, bandwidth, and message rate achieved by the portable UCX prototype is very close to that of the underlying driver. With UCX, we achieved a message exchange latency of 0.89 us, a bandwidth of 6138.5 MB/s, and a message rate of 14 million messages per second. As far as we know, this is the highest bandwidth and message rate achieved by any network stack (publicly known) on this hardware.”

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UCX F-2-F Meeting was a Blast !

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

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I want to thank all the UCX community members for joining“The Fist OpenUCX F-2-F” meeting. The meeting was a real blast !!!

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UCX Technical Presentation at OpenSHMEM 2015 Workshop

Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

Yossi Itigin presented a very nice technical presentation about theUCX effort atOpenSHMEM 2015 Workshop. The slides can be foundhere.

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UCX Collaboration is formally announced at the ISC 2015

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

We are super excited toannounce that the UCX collaboration was launched at the2015 International Super Computing Conference !The launch was featured atHPC Wire,Inside HPC, andORNL ! We want to thank all the member for their support in the development of this collaboration.The access to thegithub is open for everybody and the community is more than welcome to join and contribute. We just started and everybody has the opportunity to define and influence the API, designs, and software architecture.Happy Hacking !

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UCX paper will be present at HOTI-2015 conference

Thursday, June 18th, 2015

“UCX: An Open Source Framework for HPC Network APIs and Beyond” paper will be presented atHOTI-2015 conference !

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UCX Slidecast on InsideHPC !

Friday, May 29th, 2015

UCX Slidecast was featured onInsideHPC

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UCX Presentation at OFV-OFA working group

Thursday, May 28th, 2015

UCX project was presented at Open Fabric Alliance Verbs Working Group. The slides of the presentation can be foundhere

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