Presentation

· Contributors · Organizations · Search Program · My Schedule · Happening Now

Leveraging SmartNICs for HPC Applications

DescriptionThe past few years have witnessed an increased support for programmable network adapters, known as “Smart-NICs", that offer additional functionalities beyond standard packet processing capabilities. These devices often feature programmable lightweight processing cores, FPGAs, and even CPU- and GPU-based platforms capable of running separate operating systems. Their primary target has been data center operations, such as infrastructure management, packet filtering, and I/O acceleration, but are increasingly being explored for high-performance
computing (HPC) application acceleration.

This tutorial offers an in-depth exploration of the state-of-the-art for SmartNICs and the emerging software ecosystems supporting them. Attendees will engage in hands-on exercises to better understand how to take advantage of SmartNICs for application acceleration, including MPI collective operation offloading, OpenMP offload, system security, file I/O, and algorithmic modifications to maximize on-board processing power. Participants will have the opportunity to execute these exercises using cutting-edge SmartNICs like NVIDIA’s BlueField-3 Data
Processing Unit (DPU). The tutorial presenters will discuss additional techniques for optimizing applications to harness SmartNICs as communication accelerators in HPC systems.

Presenters