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+      <td>Jiakun Yan</td>
+      <td><a href="#fy258">LCI: a Lightweight Communication Interface for Asynchronous Multithreaded Communication</a></td>
+      <td>05/27/2025</td>
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       <td>Johannes Blaschke</td>
       <td><a href="#fy257">Deploying and Supporting Julia at NERSC</a></td>
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 <h2>Talks</h2>
 
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+<h3>LCI: a Lightweight Communication Interface for Asynchronous Multithreaded Communication</h3>
+Speaker: Jiakun Yan<br>
+University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<br><br>
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+Abstract:
+<p>
+The Lightweight Communication Interface (LCI) is an experimental communication library aiming for better asynchronous multithreaded communication support, both in terms of performance and programmability. It is also a research tool helping us understand how to design communication libraries to better fit the needs of dynamic programming systems/applications. It features a simple, incrementally refinable interface unifying all common point-to-point communication primitives and an atomic-based runtime for maximum threading efficiency. It has been integrated into established asynchronous many-task systems such as HPX and shown significant performance improvement on microbenchmarks/real-world applications. This talk will present an overview of its interface and software design and showcase its performance.
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+Bio:
+<p>
+Jiakun Yan is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at UIUC, advised by Prof. Marc Snir. His research involves exploring better communication library designs for highly dynamic/irregular programming systems and applications. He is the main contributor to the Lightweight Communication Interface (LCI) Project and the HPX LCI parcelport.
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 <div id="fy257"></div>
 <h3>Deploying and Supporting Julia at NERSC</h3>
 Speaker: Johannes Blaschke<br>