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This paper presents a comparative analysis of distributed training strategies for large-scale neural networks, focusing on data parallelism, model parallelism, and hybrid approaches. We evaluate these strategies on image classification…
Developing an efficient server-based real-time scheduling solution that supports dynamic task-level parallelism is now relevant to even the desktop and embedded domains and no longer only to the high performance computing market niche. This…
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Computationally intensive distributed and parallel computing is often bottlenecked by a small set of slow workers known as stragglers. In this paper, we utilize the emerging idea of "coded computation" to design a novel…
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The study deals with the parallelization of 2D and 3D finite element based Navier-Stokes codes using direct solvers. Development of sparse direct solvers using multifrontal solvers has significantly reduced the computational time of direct…
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The ability to leverage large-scale hardware parallelism has been one of the key enablers of the accelerated recent progress in machine learning. Consequently, there has been considerable effort invested into developing efficient parallel…
As emerging deep neural network (DNN) models continue to grow in size, using large GPU clusters to train DNNs is becoming an essential requirement to achieving acceptable training times. In this paper, we consider the case where future…
As current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices suffer from decoherence errors, any delay in the instruction execution of quantum control microarchitecture can lead to the loss of quantum information and incorrect computation…
Motivated by the increasing availability of high-performance parallel computing, we design a distributed parallel algorithm for linearly-coupled block-structured nonconvex constrained optimization problems. Our algorithm performs…
In this work, we consider the solution of boundary integral equations by means of a scalable hierarchical matrix approach on clusters equipped with graphics hardware, i.e. graphics processing units (GPUs). To this end, we extend our…
In the paper, a parallel Tabu Search algorithm for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is proposed. To deal with this NP-hard combinatorial problem many optimizations have been performed. For example, a resource evaluation…
This paper presents a parallel Monte Carlo simulation based performance quantification method for nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) in closed-loop. The method provides distributions for the controller performance in stochastic…
We discuss the parallelization of algorithms for solving polynomial systems symbolically by way of triangular decomposition. Algorithms for solving polynomial systems combine low-level routines for performing arithmetic operations on…
Inspired by recent successes with parallel optimization techniques for solving Boolean satisfiability, we investigate a set of strategies and heuristics that aim to leverage parallel computing to improve the scalability of neural network…