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Elasticity is one important feature in modern cloud computing systems and can result in computation failure or significantly increase computing time. Such elasticity means that virtual machines over the cloud can be preempted under a short…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Mingyue Ji , Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebò

Straggler nodes are well-known bottlenecks of distributed matrix computations which induce reductions in computation/communication speeds. A common strategy for mitigating such stragglers is to incorporate Reed-Solomon based MDS (maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

In 2018, Yang et al. introduced a novel and effective approach, using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, to mitigate the impact of elasticity in cloud computing systems. This approach is referred to as coded elastic computing. Some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xi Zhong , Joerg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. For the more general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We study the optimal design of heterogeneous Coded Elastic Computing (CEC) where machines have varying computation speeds and storage. CEC introduced by Yang et al. in 2018 is a framework that mitigates the impact of elastic events, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Coded matrix multiplication is a technique to enable straggler-resistant multiplication of large matrices in distributed computing systems. In this paper, we first present a conceptual framework to represent the division of work amongst…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

Modern learning algorithms use gradient descent updates to train inferential models that best explain data. Scaling these approaches to massive data sizes requires proper distributed gradient descent schemes where distributed worker nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Songze Li , Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , A. Salman Avestimehr , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, we propose the first optimum process scheduling algorithm for an increasingly prevalent type of heterogeneous multicore (HEMC) system that combines high-performance big cores and energy-efficient small cores with the same…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Chien-Hao Chen , Ren-Song Tsay

Coded distributed computing has been considered as a promising technique which makes large-scale systems robust to the "straggler" workers. Yet, practical system models for distributed computing have not been available that reflect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Muah Kim , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et. al. is an effective technique to trade computation load for communication load in a MapReduce framework. CDC achieves an optimal trade-off by duplicating map computations at $r$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Deep learning systems are optimized for clusters with homogeneous resources. However, heterogeneity is prevalent in computing infrastructure across edge, cloud and HPC. When training neural networks using stochastic gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sahil Tyagi , Prateek Sharma

Nowadays, many companies possess various types of AI accelerators, forming heterogeneous clusters. Efficiently leveraging these clusters for high-throughput large language model (LLM) inference services can significantly reduce costs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yi Xiong , Jinqi Huang , Wenjie Huang , Xuebing Yu , Entong Li , Zhixiong Ning , Jinhua Zhou , Li Zeng , Xin Chen

A distributed machine learning platform needs to recruit many heterogeneous worker nodes to finish computation simultaneously. As a result, the overall performance may be degraded due to straggling workers. By introducing redundancy into…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Ningning Ding , Zhixuan Fang , Lingjie Duan , Jianwei Huang

Originated from distributed learning, federated learning enables privacy-preserved collaboration on a new abstracted level by sharing the model parameters only. While the current research mainly focuses on optimizing learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Cong Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Pengzhan Zhou

Coded Distributed Computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji