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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Hauke Brinkop , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

Data preprocessing techniques are devoted to correct or alleviate errors in data. Discretization and feature selection are two of the most extended data preprocessing techniques. Although we can find many proposals for static Big Data…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Alejandro Alcalde-Barros , Diego García-Gil , Salvador García , Francisco Herrera

Modern applications increasingly rely on inference serving systems to provide low-latency insights with a diverse set of machine learning models. Existing systems often utilize resource elasticity to scale with demand. However, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Joel Wolfrath , Daniel Frink , Abhishek Chandra

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning capabilities when fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL). However, such methods require extensive data and compute, making them impractical under many realistic training budgets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Dai Do , Manh Nguyen , Svetha Venkatesh , Hung Le

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is being increasingly applied to the problem of resource allocation for emerging System-on-Chip (SoC) applications, and has shown remarkable promises. In this paper, we introduce SoCRATES (SoC Resource…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tegg Taekyong Sung , Bo Ryu

We propose a unifying framework based on configuration linear programs and randomized rounding, for different energy optimization problems in the dynamic speed-scaling setting. We apply our framework to various scheduling and routing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Evripidis Bampis , Alexander Kononov , Dimitrios Letsios , Giorgio Lucarelli , Maxim Sviridenko

Minimizing job scheduling time is a fundamental issue in data center networks that has been extensively studied in recent years. The incoming jobs require different CPU and memory units, and span different number of time slots. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Weijia Chen , Yuedong Xu , Xiaofeng Wu

In the past decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieved state-of-the-art performance in a broad range of problems, spanning from object classification and action recognition to smart building and healthcare. The flexibility that makes DNNs…

Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

We consider the optimization of distributed resource scheduling to minimize the sum of task latency and energy consumption for all the Internet of things devices (IoTDs) in a large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) system. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

In a cloud computing job with many parallel tasks, the tasks on the slowest machines (straggling tasks) become the bottleneck in the job completion. Computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark tackle this by replicating the straggling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Da Wang , Gauri Joshi , Gregory Wornell

Advance reservation is important to guarantee the quality of services of jobs by allowing exclusive access to resources over a defined time interval on resources. It is a challenge for the scheduler to organize available resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Bo Li , Yijian Pei , Bin Shen , Hao Wu , Min He , Jundong Yang

GPU clusters have become essential for training and deploying modern AI systems, yet real deployments continue to report average utilization near 50%. This inefficiency is largely caused by fragmentation, heterogeneous workloads, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Akhmadillo Mamirov

In this work we study the problem of scheduling tasks with dependencies in multiprocessor architectures where processors have different speeds. We present the preemptive algorithm "Save-Energy" that given a schedule of tasks it post…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Georgios Giannoulis , Paul G. Spirakis

Modern Mixed-Criticality Systems (MCSs) rely on hardware heterogeneity to satisfy ever-increasing computational demands. However, most of the heterogeneous co-processors are designed to achieve high throughput, with their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiapeng Guan , Ran Wei , Dean You , Yingquan Wang , Ruizhe Yang , Hui Wang , Zhe Jiang

In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mario Souto , Joaquim D. Garcia , Alvaro Veiga

We propose a novel job scheduling approach for homogeneous cluster computing platforms. Its key feature is the use of virtual machine technology to share fractional node resources in a precise and controlled manner. Other VM-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-27 Henri Casanova , Mark Stillwell , Frédéric Vivien

Resource provisioning plays a pivotal role in determining the right amount of infrastructure resource to run applications and target the global decarbonization goal. A significant portion of production clusters is now dedicated to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Clement Mommessin , Renyu Yang , Natalia V. Shakhlevich , Xiaoyang Sun , Satish Kumar , Junqing Xiao , Jie Xu

Modern manufacturing systems require adaptive computing infrastructures that can respond to highly dynamic workloads and increasingly customized production demands. The compute continuum emerges as a promising solution, enabling flexible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Tien Hung Nguyen , Sanjeet Raj Pandey

We consider a large-scale parallel-server system, where each server independently adjusts its processing speed in a decentralized manner. The objective is to minimize the overall cost, which comprises the average cost of maintaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Daan Rutten , Martin Zubeldia , Debankur Mukherjee