Program
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for Hoti27, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - Friday, August, 21, 2020.
Conference Day 1: Wednesday, August 19, 2020
| Time | Title | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 8:50AM-9:00AM | Introduction and Welcome | General Chairs: Khaled Hamidouche and Don Draper () |
| 9:00AM-10:00AM | Keynote 1: The Data Center is a Computer | Michael Kagan (Chief Technology Officer, NVIDIA) |
| 10:00AM-10:10AM | Break | |
| 10:10AM-10:30AM | Diamond Sponsor Presentation | (Intel) |
| 10:30AM-11:30AM | Session A: Hardware | |
| PCI Express® 6.0 at 64.0 GT/s with PAM-4 signaling: a low latency, high bandwidth, high reliability, and cost-effective interconnect | Debendra Das Sharma (Intel), | |
| Bunch of Wires: An Open Die-to-Die Interface | Shahab Ardalan (Ayar Labs), Halil Cirit (Facebook), Ramin Farjadrad (Marvell), Mark Kuemerle (Marvell), Ken Poulton (Keysight), Suresh Subramanian (Apex Semiconductor), Bapi Vinnakota (Broadcom), | |
| 11:30AM-12:30PM | Lunch | |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Session B: Frameworks and Architectures | |
| Configurable Network Protocol Accelerator (COPA) - An Integrated Networking/Accelerator Hardware/Software Framework | Venkata Krishnan, Olivier Serres and Michael Blocksome (Intel), | |
| The Open Domain-Specific Architecture | Kevin Drucker (Facebook), Dharmesh Jani (Facebook), Ishwar Agarwal (Microsoft), Gary Miller (), Millind Mittal (Xilinx), Robert Wang (AnalogX), Bapi Vinnakota (Broadcom), | |
| 1:30PM-1:50PM | Break | |
| 1:50PM-2:00PM | Gold Sponsor Presentation | (IBM) |
| 2:00PM-2:30PM | Invited Talk: TeraPHY: An O-band WDM Electro-optic Chiplet for Low Power, Terabit/s Optical I/O | Mark Wade (Ayar Labs) |
| 2:30PM-2:40PM | Gold Sponsor Presentation | (GigaIO) |
| 2:40PM-4:10PM | Panel: SmartNIC or DPU, Who Wins? | Moderator: Scott Schweitzer, Xilinx Panelists: Andrew Gospodarek, Broadcom; Michael Kagan, NVIDIA; Gordon Brebner, Xilinx; Pradeep Sindhu, Fungible; Mario Baldi, Pensando () |
Conference Day 2: Thursday, August 20, 2020
| Time | Title | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM-10:00AM | Keynote 2 | Brian Barrett (AWS) |
| 10:00AM-10:20AM | Break | |
| 10:20AM-10:30AM | Gold Sponsor Presentation | (TidalScale) |
| 10:30AM-11:30AM | Session C: Machine Learning | |
| Scalable Distributed Training of Recommendation Models: An ASTRA-SIM + NS3 case-study with TCP/IP transport | Saeed Rashidi (Georgia Tech), Pallavi Shurpali (Facebook), Srinivas Sridharan (Facebook), Naader Hassani (Facebook), Dheevatsa Mudigere (Facebook), Krishnakumar Nair (Facebook), Misha Smelyanskiy (Facebook), Tushar Krishna (Georgia Tech), | |
| Communication-Efficient Distributed Deep Learning with GPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Computing | Kenji Tanaka, Yuki Arikawa, Ito Tsuyoshi, Kazutaka Morita, Naru Nemoto, Fumiaki Miura, Kazuhiko Terada, Junji Teramoto and Takeshi (NTT Corporation), | |
| 11:30AM-11:35AM | Silver Sponsor Presentation | (AlgoLogic) |
| 11:35AM-12:30PM | Lunch | |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Session D: Topologies and Routing | |
| Optimizing Packet Dropping by Efficient Congesting-Flow Isolation in Lossy Data-Center Networks | Cristina Olmedilla (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Jesús Escudero-Sahuquillo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Pedro Javier García (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Francisco Alfaro Cortés (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Francisco J. Quiles (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), José L. Sánchez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Wenhao Sun (Huawei), Xiang Yu (Huawei), Xu Yonghui (Huawei), Jose Duato (Universitat Politècnica de València), | |
| Isolated Trees in Multi-Tenant Fat Tree Datacenters for In-Network Computing | Ori Rottenstreich (Technion), Jose Yallouz and Lion Levi (Mellanox Tecnologies), | |
| 1:30PM-1:35PM | Silver Sponsor Presentation | (Ayar Labs) |
| 1:35PM-1:45PM | Break | |
| 1:45PM-2:45PM | Session E: Containers and Virtualization | |
| Kano: Efficient Container Network Policy Verification | Yifan Li (Tsinghua University), Chengjun Jia (Tsinghua University), Xiaohe Hu (Tsinghua University), Jun Li (RITT), | |
| Reliable and Time-efficient Virtualized Function Placement | Roi Ben Haim and Ori Rottenstreich (Technion), | |
| 2:45PM-2:50PM | Silver Sponsor Presentation | (Lenovo) |
| 2:50PM-3:00PM | Break | |
| 3:00PM-3:30PM | Invited Talk 2: Constructing a Computationally-Efficient Distributed GPU Appliance In a PCI Express-bsed Network | Scott Taylor (GigaIO) |
| 3:30PM-3:35PM | Close | Don Draper () |
Tutorials: Friday, August 21, 2020
| Time | Title | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM-12:30PM | Exploiting HPC for distributed Deep Learning | Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Hari Subramoni, Arpan Jain and Ammar Ahmad Awan (The Ohio State University) |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-5:00PM | InfiniBand, High-speed Ethernet, RoCE, Omni-Path, EFA and Slingshot for Beginners | Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda and Hari Subramoni (The Ohio State University) |
| 5:00PM-5:05PM | Close |