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Together with the improvements in state-of-the-art accuracies of various tasks, deep learning models are getting significantly larger. However, it is extremely difficult to implement these large models because limited GPU memory makes it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Boxiang Wang , Qifan Xu , Zhengda Bian , Yang You

Training large-scale models relies on a vast number of computing resources. For example, training the GPT-4 model (1.8 trillion parameters) requires 25000 A100 GPUs . It is a challenge to build a large-scale cluster with one type of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Si Xu , Zixiao Huang , Yan Zeng , Shengen Yan , Xuefei Ning , Quanlu Zhang , Haolin Ye , Sipei Gu , Chunsheng Shui , Zhezheng Lin , Hao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

The past few years have witnessed growth in the computational requirements for training deep convolutional neural networks. Current approaches parallelize training onto multiple devices by applying a single parallelization strategy (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Zhihao Jia , Sina Lin , Charles R. Qi , Alex Aiken

Deep learning (DL) has transformed applications in a variety of domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, and tabular data analysis. The search for improved DL model accuracy has led practitioners to explore…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Kabir Nagrecha

Most research on novel techniques for 3D Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) is currently done using Deep Learning with GPU accelerators. The principal challenge of such technique is that a single input can easily cope computing resources, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Josep Lluis Berral , Oriol Aranda , Juan Luis Dominguez , Jordi Torres

Efficiently scaling deep neural networks across GPU clusters requires navigating complex trade-offs between computational throughput, memory utilization, and synchronization overhead. This paper presents a unified empirical evaluation of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

Training large-scale deep neural networks is a long, time-consuming operation, often requiring many GPUs to accelerate. In large models, the time spent loading data takes a significant portion of model training time. As GPU servers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Mahdi Zolnouri , Xinlin Li , Vahid Partovi Nia

Transformer models have revolutionized a wide spectrum of disciplines, especially in language processing. The recent success has proven that model size scalability is crucial for achieving superior performance metrics. However, training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiangtao Wang , Jan Ebert , Oleg Filatov , Stefan Kesselheim

With increasing data and model complexities, the time required to train neural networks has become prohibitively large. To address the exponential rise in training time, users are turning to data parallel neural networks (DPNN) to utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Daniel Coquelin , Charlotte Debus , Markus Götz , Fabrice von der Lehr , James Kahn , Martin Siggel , Achim Streit

Distributed training techniques have been widely deployed in large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) training on dense-GPU clusters. However, on public cloud clusters, due to the moderate inter-connection bandwidth between instances,…

The advent of the Transformer architecture has propelled the growth of natural language processing (NLP) models, leading to remarkable achievements in numerous NLP tasks. Yet, the absence of specialized hardware like expansive GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaofeng Wu , Jia Rao , Wei Chen

Training massive-scale deep learning models on datasets spanning tens of terabytes presents critical challenges in hardware utilization and training reproducibility. In this paper, we identify and resolve profound data-loading bottlenecks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kashish Mittal , Di Yu , Roozbeh Ketabi , Arushi Arora , Brendon Lapp , Peng Zhang

Large-scale computing systems are increasingly using accelerators such as GPUs to enable peta- and exa-scale levels of compute to meet the needs of Machine Learning (ML) and scientific computing applications. Given the widespread and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Rutwik Jain , Brandon Tran , Keting Chen , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

Inference for Deep Neural Networks is increasingly being executed locally on mobile and embedded platforms due to its advantages in latency, privacy and connectivity. Since modern System on Chips typically execute a combination of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Lei Xun , Long Tran-Thanh , Bashir M Al-Hashimi , Geoff V. Merrett

As the data size in Machine Learning fields grows exponentially, it is inevitable to accelerate the computation by utilizing the ever-growing large number of available cores provided by high-performance computing hardware. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kun Li , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Gongwei Chen

In the last decades, extreme classification has become an essential topic for deep learning. It has achieved great success in many areas, especially in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). However, it is very challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Liuyihan Song , Pan Pan , Kang Zhao , Hao Yang , Yiming Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yinghui Xu , Rong Jin

In this paper we solve on GPUs massive problems with large amount of data, which are not appropriate for solution with the SIMD technology. For the given problem we consider a three-level parallelization. The multithreading of CPU is used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Natalya Litvinenko

Typically, Ultra-deep neural network(UDNN) tends to yield high-quality model, but its training process is usually resource intensive and time-consuming. Modern GPU's scarce DRAM capacity is the primary bottleneck that hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jinrong Guo , Wantao Liu , Wang Wang , Qu Lu , Songlin Hu , Jizhong Han , Ruixuan Li

In this paper we analyze, evaluate, and improve the performance of training generalized linear models on modern CPUs. We start with a state-of-the-art asynchronous parallel training algorithm, identify system-level performance bottlenecks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Nikolas Ioannou , Celestine Dünner , Kornilios Kourtis , Thomas Parnell

The growing demand for computational power is driven by advancements in deep learning, the increasing need for big data processing, and the requirements of scientific simulations for academic and research purposes. Developing countries like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aatiz Ghimire , Shahnawaz Alam , Siman Giri , Madhav Prasad Ghimire