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Memory bandwidth is critical in today's high performance computing systems. The bandwidth is particularly paramount for GPU workloads such as 3D Gaming, Imaging and Perceptual Computing, GPGPU due to their data-intensive nature. As the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Ishwar Bhati , Udit Dhawan , Jayesh Gaur , Sreenivas Subramoney , Hong Wang

With high throughput networks acquiring a crucial role in supporting data-intensive applications, a variety of data center network topologies have been proposed to achieve high capacity at low cost. While this literature explores a large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Ankit Singla , P. Brighten Godfrey , Alexandra Kolla

Optical data center network architectures are becoming attractive because of their low energy consumption, large bandwidth, and low cabling complexity. In\cite{Xu1605:PODCA}, an AWGR-based passive optical data center architecture (PODCA) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Chong Liu , Maotong Xu , Suresh Subramaniam

Reconfigurable data center networks (DCNs) enhance traditional architectures with optical circuit switches (OCSs), enabling dynamic reconfiguration of inter-pod links, i.e., the logical topology. Optimizing this topology is crucial for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yingming Mao , Qiaozhu Zhai , Ximeng Liu , Xinchi Han , Fafan li , Shizhen Zhao , Yuzhou Zhou , Zhen Yao , Xia Zhu

Traditional wired data center networks (DCNs) suffer from cabling complexity, lack flexibility, and are limited by the speed of digital switches. In this paper, we alternatively develop a top-down traffic grooming (TG) approach to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Abdulkadir Celik , Amer AlGhadhban , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The increasing gap between datacenter traffic volume and the capacity of electrical switches has driven the development of reconfigurable network designs utilizing optical circuit switching. Recent advancements, particularly those featuring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vamsi Addanki , Chen Avin , Goran Dario Knabe , Giannis Patronas , Dimitris Syrivelis , Nikos Terzenidis , Paraskevas Bakopoulos , Ilias Marinos , Stefan Schmid

This paper studies the design of self-adjusting networks whose topology dynamically adapts to the workload, in an online and demand-aware manner. This problem is motivated by emerging optical technologies which allow to reconfigure the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chen Avin , Stefan Schmid

State-of-the-art topologies for datacenters (DC) and high-performance computing (HPC) networks are demand-oblivious and static. Therefore, such network topologies are optimized for the worst-case traffic scenarios and can't take advantage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Chen Griner , Gil Einziger , Chen Avin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

This work addresses a fundamental challenge in applying deep learning to power systems: developing neural network models that transfer across significant system changes, including networks with entirely different topologies and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Tong Wu , Anna Scaglione , Sandy Miguel , Daniel Arnold

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

Numerous optical circuit switched data center networks have been proposed over the past decade for higher capacity, though commercial adoption of these architectures have been minimal so far. One major challenge commonly facing these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Min Yee Teh , Shizhen Zhao , Keren Bergman

Reconfigurable optical topologies are emerging as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of datacenter networks. This paper considers the problem of scheduling opportunistic links in such reconfigurable datacenters. We study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Janardhan Kulkarni , Stefan Schmid , Paweł Schmidt

Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

All-to-All communication is a key performance bottleneck for distributed machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, where dense traffic increasingly stresses scale-up interconnects. While these ML and HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anton Juerss , Stefan Schmid

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered a lot of recent interest because of their success in learning representations from graph-structured data across several critical applications in cloud and HPC. Owing to their unique compute and…

Fast and reliable optimal power flow (OPF) approximation is essential for reliable smart-grid operation, yet many learning-based surrogates either flatten the native heterogeneous structure of power networks, target a limited set of grid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Yijiang Li , Kibaek Kim , Teja Kuruganti

Graph processing systems are essential for analyzing large-scale data with complex relationships, yet most existing frameworks rely on statically provisioned clusters, resulting in poor elasticity and inefficient resource utilization under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Zhao , Parsa Poorsistani , Mohammad Goudarzi , Tawfiq Islam , Adel N. Toosi

Modular Aerial Robotic Systems (MARS) consist of multiple drone units assembled into a single, integrated rigid flying platform. With inherent redundancy, MARS can self-reconfigure into different configurations to mitigate rotor or unit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rui Huang , Siyu Tang , Zhiqian Cai , Lin Zhao

Deep neural network (DNN) inference is increasingly being executed on mobile and embedded platforms due to low latency and better privacy. However, efficient deployment on these platforms is challenging due to the intensive computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lei Xun , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett