Feb 10 2025

Attds: Carl, Stephen, Evan, Gabriel, Cedric, Matthew, Vivek

General Topics

• Think about presenting KokkosComm and its use cases for the upcoming HPSF conference

  • Submission deadline February 23, 2025
  • Full HPSF meeting is May 5-8
    • Stephen, Cedric (probably?), Julien
  • Kokkos User Group meeting is May 7-8
    • Carl
  • Nicole & Evan submitting a plan / implementation / evaluation for a persistence API
  • If you have an idea, we can focus on this specific use case to deliver faster

• Carl making a Kokkos Comm poster at ASC workshop at Sandia tomorrow

  • CUDA is working I think

• Docs modernization

  • Deploy fixed

• CExA going to work on NCCL backend PR

PRs and issues

• https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos-comm/pull/139

• https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos-comm/pull/130

Roundtable

• Carl

  • NCCL backend
  • Semantic inconsistencies and confusion in the core API

• Nicole

  • working on Persistence API

• Evan

  • Working with Nicole

• Vivek

  • Kokkos Profiling interface autotuning, MPI-aware tuning:
    • e.g. vector length and team size optimized per-process. Can we use other process' tuning results to get out of a local minimum?