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As HPC system architectures and the applications running on them continue to evolve, the MPI standard itself must evolve. The trend in current and future HPC systems toward powerful nodes with multiple CPU cores and multiple GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Hui Zhou , Ken Raffenetti , Yanfei Guo , Thomas Gillis , Robert Latham , Rajeev Thakur

MPI collective operations provide a standardized interface for performing data movements within a group of processes. The efficiency of collective communication operations depends on the actual algorithm, its implementation, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Sascha Hunold , Alexandra Carpen-Amarie

The conventional model of resource allocation in HPC systems is static. Thus, a job cannot leverage newly available resources in the system or release underutilized resources during the execution. In this paper, we present Kub, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Daniel Medeiros , Jacob Wahlgren , Gabin Schieffer , Ivy Peng

MPI has been ubiquitously deployed in flagship HPC systems aiming to accelerate distributed scientific applications running on tens of hundreds of processes and compute nodes. Maintaining the correctness and integrity of MPI application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Luanzheng Guo , Giorgis Georgakoudis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Ignacio Laguna , Dong Li

The increasing complexity of HPC architectures and the growing adoption of irregular scientific algorithms demand efficient support for asynchronous, multithreaded communication. This need is especially pronounced with Asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiakun Yan , Marc Snir , Yanfei Guo

Scaling supercomputers comes with an increase in failure rates due to the increasing number of hardware components. In standard practice, applications are made resilient through checkpointing data and restarting execution after a failure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Giorgis Georgakoudis , Luanzheng Guo , Ignacio Laguna

Modified policy iteration (MPI) is a dynamic programming algorithm that combines elements of policy iteration and value iteration. The convergence of MPI has been well studied in the context of discounted and average-cost MDPs. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yashaswini Murthy , Mehrdad Moharrami , R. Srikant

High-performance computing continues to increase its computing power and energy efficiency. However, energy consumption continues to rise and finding ways to limit and/or decrease it is a crucial point in current research. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Marina Morán , Javier Balladini , Dolores Rexachs , Enzo Rucci

With the growing constraints on power budget and increasing hardware failure rates, the operation of future exascale systems faces several challenges. Towards this, resource awareness and adaptivity by enabling malleable jobs has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Mohak Chadha , Jophin John , Michael Gerndt

This paper provides some new approaches to MPI implementations to improve MPI performance. These approaches include dynamically composable libraries, reducing average layer numbers of MPI libraries, and a single entity of MPI-network,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yuqing Xiong

Adaptive workloads can change on--the--fly the configuration of their jobs, in terms of number of processes. In order to carry out these job reconfigurations, we have designed a methodology which enables a job to communicate with the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Sergio Iserte , Rafael Mayo , Enrique S. Quintana-Orti , Vicenc Beltran , Antonio J. Peña

We investigate the termination problem of a family of multi-path polynomial programs (MPPs), in which all assignments to program variables are polynomials, and test conditions of loops and conditional statements are polynomial equalities.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yangjia Li , Naijun Zhan , Mingshuai Chen , Hui Lu , Guohua Wu , Joost-Pieter Katoen

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the prevalent programming model used on today's supercomputers. Therefore, MPI library developers are looking for the best possible performance (shortest run-time) of individual MPI functions across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Sascha Hunold , Alexandra Carpen-Amarie

When using LLMs to rank items based on given criteria, or evaluate answers, the order of candidate items can influence the model's final decision. This sensitivity to item positioning in a LLM's prompt is known as position bias. Prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ali Vardasbi , Gustavo Penha , Claudia Hauff , Hugues Bouchard

We propose a new approach for solving planning problems with a hierarchical structure, fusing reinforcement learning and MPC planning. Our formulation tightly and elegantly couples the two planning paradigms. It leverages reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Toshiaki Hori , Jonathan DeCastro , Deepak Gopinath , Avinash Balachandran , Guy Rosman

While application profiling has been a mainstay in the HPC community for years, profiling of MPI and other communication middleware has not received the same degree of exploration. This paper adds to the discussion of MPI profiling,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Riley Shipley , Garrett Hooten , David Boehme , Derek Schafer , Anthony Skjellum , Olga Pearce

Scientific and data science applications are becoming increasingly complex, with growing computational and memory demands. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems provide high parallelism and heterogeneity across nodes, devices, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jonas H. Müller Korndörfer , Ali Mohammed , Ahmed Eleliemy , Quentin Guilloteau , Reto Krummenacher , Florina M. Ciorba

Message Passing Interfaces (MPI) plays an important role in parallel computing. Many parallel applications are implemented as MPI programs. The existing methods of bug detection for MPI programs have the shortage of providing both input and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Xianjin Fu , Zhenbang Chen , Yufeng Zhang , Chun Huang , Wei Dong , Ji Wang

Production-quality parallel applications are often a mixture of diverse operations, such as computation- and communication-intensive, regular and irregular, tightly coupled and loosely linked operations. In conventional construction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Ivy Bo Peng , Roberto Gioiosa , Gokcen Kestor , Erwin Laure , Stefano Markidis

C++ advocates exceptions as the preferred way to handle unexpected behaviour of an implementation in the code. This does not integrate well with the error handling of MPI, which more or less always results in program termination in case of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Christian Engwer , Mirco Altenbernd , Nils-Arne Dreier , Dominik Göddeke