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Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

Modern large-scale scientific applications consist of thousands to millions of individual tasks. These tasks involve not only computation but also communication with one another. Typically, the communication pattern between tasks is sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Christian Schulz , Henning Woydt

We study distributed graph algorithms that adopt an iterative vertex-centric framework for graph processing, popularized by the Google's Pregel system. Since then, there are several attempts to implement many graph algorithms in a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Arijit Khan

In this paper, we present a neural network-enabled data distribution aware sorting method, coined as NN-sort. Our approach explores the potential of developing deep learning techniques to speed up large-scale sort operations, enabling data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiaoke Zhu , Qi Zhang , Wei Zhou , Ling Liu

Initially, a number of frequent itemset mining (FIM) algorithms have been designed on the Hadoop MapReduce, a distributed big data processing framework. But, due to heavy disk I/O, MapReduce is found to be inefficient for such highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Pankaj Singh , Sudhakar Singh , P. K. Mishra , Rakhi Garg

This paper investigates co-scheduling algorithms for processing a set of parallel applications. Instead of executing each application one by one, using a maximum degree of parallelism for each of them, we aim at scheduling several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Guillaume Aupy , Manu Shantharam , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Padma Raghavan

In this paper we consider distributed allocation problems with memory constraint limits. Firstly, we propose a tractable relaxation to the problem of optimal symmetric allocations from [1]. The approximated problem is based on the Q-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Iryna Andriyanova , Pablo M. Olmos

We investigate the problem of minimizing the expectation of smooth nonconvex functions in a distributed setting with multiple parallel workers that are able to compute stochastic gradients. A significant challenge in this context is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Artavazd Maranjyan , Omar Shaikh Omar , Peter Richtárik

Sorting is at the core of many database operations, such as index creation, sort-merge joins, and user-requested output sorting. As GPUs are emerging as a promising platform to accelerate various operations, sorting on GPUs becomes a viable…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Elias Stehle , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Distributed systems that manage and process graph-structured data internally solve a graph partitioning problem to minimize their communication overhead and query run-time. Besides computational complexity -- optimal graph partitioning is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

Among the many possible approaches for the parallelization of self-organizing networks, and in particular of growing self-organizing networks, perhaps the most common one is producing an optimized, parallel implementation of the standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Giacomo Parigi , Angelo Stramieri , Danilo Pau , Marco Piastra

This paper presents a case for exploiting the synergy of dedicated and opportunistic network resources in a distributed hosting platform for data stream processing applications. Our previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shah Asaduzzaman , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Distributed algorithms can be efficiently used for solving economic dispatch problem (EDP) in power systems. To implement a distributed algorithm, a communication network is required, making the algorithm vulnerable to noise which may cause…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wenwen Wu , Shuai Liu , Shanying Zhu

We present a sorting algorithm that works in-place, executes in parallel, is cache-efficient, avoids branch-mispredictions, and performs work O(n log n) for arbitrary inputs with high probability. The main algorithmic contributions are new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Michael Axtmann , Sascha Witt , Daniel Ferizovic , Peter Sanders

Modern supercomputers are increasingly requiring the presence of accelerators and co-processors. However, it has not been easy to achieve good performance on such heterogeneous clusters. The key challenge has been to ensure good load…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Jesse Kelly , Omar Ghattas , Hari Sundar

In this paper, we propose a distributed throughput-optimal ad hoc wireless network scheduling algorithm, which is motivated by the celebrated simplex algorithm for solving linear programming (LP) problems. The scheduler stores a sparse set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a popular stochastic optimization method in machine learning. Traditional parallel SGD algorithms, e.g., SimuParallel SGD, often require all nodes to have the same performance or to consume equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Cheng Daning , Li Shigang , Zhang Yunquan

The parallel and distributed processing are becoming de facto industry standard, and a large part of the current research is targeted on how to make computing scalable and distributed, dynamically, without allocating the resources on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Rajendra Purohit , K R Chowdhary , S D Purohit