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Deep learning has been effectively applied to many discrete optimization problems. However, learning-based scheduling on unrelated parallel machines remains particularly difficult to design. Not only do the numbers of jobs and machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diego Hitzges , Guillaume Sagnol

The dynamic provisioning of virtualized resources offered by cloud computing infrastructures allows applications deployed in a cloud environment to automatically increase and decrease the amount of used resources. This capability is called…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Nicolo M. Calcavecchia , Bogdan Alexandru Caprarescu , Elisabetta Di Nitto , Daniel J. Dubois , Dana Petcu

CFS (Correlation-Based Feature Selection) is an FS algorithm that has been successfully applied to classification problems in many domains. We describe Distributed CFS (DiCFS) as a completely redesigned, scalable, parallel and distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Raul-Jose Palma-Mendoza , Luis de-Marcos , Daniel Rodriguez , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos

We study a difficult problem of how to schedule complex workflows with precedence constraints under a limited budget in the cloud environment. We first formulate the scheduling problem as an integer programming problem, which can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hang Zhang , Xiaoying Zheng , Ye Xia , Mingqi Li

We present a scheduler that improves cluster utilization and job completion times by packing tasks having multi-resource requirements and inter-dependencies. While the problem is algorithmically very hard, we achieve near-optimality on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Robert Grandl , Srikanth Kandula , Sriram Rao , Aditya Akella , Janardhan Kulkarni

Reinforcement learning exhibits potential in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models, yet it is hard to scale for the low sample efficiency during the rollout phase. Existing methods attempt to improve efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Deyang Kong , Qi Guo , Xiangyu Xi , Wei Wang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

MapReduce framework is the de facto in big data and its applications where a big data-set is split into small data chunks that are replicated on different servers among thousands of servers. The heterogeneous server structure of the system…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Amir Moaddeli , Iman Nabati Ahmadi , Negin Abhar

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou

To deliver high performance in power limited systems, architects have turned to using heterogeneous systems, either CPU+GPU or mixed CPU-hardware systems. However, in systems with different processor types and task affinities, scheduling…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Zhuo Chen , Diana Marculescu

With the rapidly growing demand of graph processing in the real scene, they have to efficiently handle massive concurrent jobs. Although existing work enable to efficiently handle single graph processing job, there are plenty of memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jin Zhao

The growth of big data in domains such as Earth Sciences, Social Networks, Physical Sciences, etc. has lead to an immense need for efficient and scalable linear algebra operations, e.g. Matrix inversion. Existing methods for efficient and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Chandan Misra , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Soumya K. Ghosh

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

Deep learning inference is increasingly run at the edge. As the programming and system stack support becomes mature, it enables acceleration opportunities within a mobile system, where the system performance envelope is scaled up with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Young Geun Kim , Carole-Jean Wu

Optimization is an important module of modern machine learning applications. Tremendous efforts have been made to accelerate optimization algorithms. A common formulation is achieving a lower loss at a given time. This enables a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhonglin Xie , Yiman Fong , Haoran Yuan , Zaiwen Wen

One significant challenge in the job scheduling of computing clusters for the development of deep learning algorithms is the efficient scheduling of trial-and-error (TE) job, the type of job in which the users seek to conduct small-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Hidehito Yabuuchi , Daisuke Taniwaki , Shingo Omura

A key challenge with machine learning approaches for ranking is the gap between the performance metrics of interest and the surrogate loss functions that can be optimized with gradient-based methods. This gap arises because ranking metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Robin Swezey , Aditya Grover , Bruno Charron , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling an application on a parallel computational platform. The application is a particular task graph, either a linear chain of tasks, or a set of independent tasks. The platform is made of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit

Scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on a set of identical machines to minimize the total processing time (makespan) is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. In practical settings such as cloud computing, jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi

MapReduce is emerged as a prominent programming model for data-intensive computation. In this work, we study power-aware MapReduce scheduling in the speed scaling setting first introduced by Yao et al. [FOCS 1995]. We focus on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Evripidis Bampis , Vincent Chau , Dimitrios Letsios , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Milis , Georgios Zois

Modern computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, are increasingly adopting GPUs to boost their computing capabilities primarily due to the heterogeneous nature of AI/ML/deep learning workloads. However, the energy consumption of GPUs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shashikant Ilager , Rajeev Muralidhar , Kotagiri Rammohanrao , Rajkumar Buyya