Student Travel Support for MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting

现代高性能计算(HPC)系统正在快速发展，以响应和预期底层计算和网络技术的进步。在这样一个快速变化的环境中，下一代工程师和科学家熟悉现代高性能混凝土的建筑和技术趋势是至关重要的。这种知识和专业知识使下一代科学家和工程师能够设计HPC软件堆栈，了解开放源代码软件开发的过程，并提高软件的可持续性。自2000年以来，MVAPICH项目一直在提供开源、高性能、可扩展的软件库，供大部分科学和工程界使用。一年一度的MVAPICH用户组(MUG)会议提供了一个公开论坛，以交流关于MVAPICH2库的设计和使用的信息。该项目的旅行资金将使一批学生(包括本科生和毕业生)能够参加MUG会议。学生的参与将帮助他们为进入下一代HPC劳动力做好准备，使他们在软件设计、重用和可持续发展方面拥有更多的专业知识。MVAPICH项目专注于为HPC系统设计高性能MPI和PGAS运行时。多年来，该项目已经能够融入新的设计，以利用Intel Xeon PHI、NVIDIA GPGPU等新颖的多核平台和开放电源架构，以及支持远程直接内存访问(RDMA)的商用网络技术，如InfiniBand、ROCE、Omni-Path和带iWARP的10/40GigE。三年前，MVAPICH用户组(MUG)创建了一个年度会议，为交流MVAPICH2库的信息提供了一个公开论坛。这笔赠款下的资金旨在让更多在高性能计算领域(系统和应用)工作的本科生和研究生参加一年一度的MUG活动。申请的学生旅行基金将有助于吸引一批来自美国一系列机构的学生。参加像MUG这样的国际活动将使学生能够在全球范围内了解快速发展的HPC领域和开源软件设计方面的发展。选拔委员会将强调学生的广泛和多样化的参与。

Modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are rapidly evolving in response to and in anticipation of underlying computing and networking technology advances. In such a rapidly changing environment it is critical that next-generation engineers and scientists are familiar with modern HPC architectural and technology trends. This knowledge and expertise allows the next generation of scientists and engineers to design HPC software stacks, learn about the process of open-source software development and to improve software sustainability. Since 2000, the MVAPICH project has been providing open-source, high performance, scalable software libraries used by a significant part of the science and engineering community. The annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting provides an open forum to exchange information on the design and usage of MVAPICH2 libraries. Travel funding from this project will enable a set of students (both undergraduates and graduates) to attend the MUG meeting. Student participation will help prepare them to enter the next-generation HPC workforce with increased expertise on software design, reuse, and sustainability. The MVAPICH project focuses on the design of high-performance MPI and PGAS runtimes for HPC systems. Over the years, this project has been able to incorporate new designs to leverage novel multi-/many-core platforms like Intel Xeon Phis, NVIDIA GPGPUs, and Open POWER architectures coupled with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) enabled commodity networking technologies like InfiniBand, RoCE, Omni-Path, and 10/40GigE with iWARP. An annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting was created three years back to provide an open forum to exchange information on MVAPICH2 libraries. The funding under this grant aims to achieve increased participation of undergraduate and graduate students working in the HPC area (systems and applications) in the annual MUG event. The requested student travel fund will help in attracting a set of students from a range of US institutions. The participation in an international event such as MUG will enable the students to get a global picture of the developments happening in the rapidly evolving HPC domain and open-source software design. The selection committee will stress broad and diverse student participation.