English
Related papers

Related papers: Scheduling Coflows for Minimizing the Total Weight…

200 papers

We consider routing in reconfigurable networks, which is also known as coflow scheduling in the literature. The algorithmic literature generally (perhaps implicitly) assumes that the amount of data to be transferred is large. Thus the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alexander Lindermayr , Kirk Pruhs , Andréa W. Richa , Tegan Wilson

The coflow scheduling problem is considered: given an input/output switch with each port having a fixed capacity, find a scheduling algorithm that minimizes the weighted sum of the coflow completion times respecting the port capacities,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Akhil Bhimaraju , Debanuj Nayak , Rahul Vaze

In distributed computing frameworks like MapReduce, Spark, and Dyrad, a coflow is a set of flows transferring data between two stages of a job. The job cannot start its next stage unless all flows in the coflow finish. To improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Li Shi , Junwei Zhang , Yang Liu , Thomas Robertazzi

This paper addresses the challenging scheduling problem of coflows with release times, with the objective of minimizing the total weighted completion time. Previous literature has predominantly concentrated on establishing the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chi-Yeh Chen

A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Qingkai Liang , Eytan Modiano

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

Many emerging distributed applications, including big data analytics, generate a number of flows that concurrently transport data across data center networks. To improve their performance, it is required to account for the behavior of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Cristian Hernandez Benet , Andreas J. Kassler , Gianni Antichi , Theophilus A. Benson , Gergely Pongracz

Collaborative edge computing has become a popular paradigm where edge devices collaborate by sharing resources. Data dissemination is a fundamental problem in CEC to decide what data is transmitted from which device and how. Existing works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yuvraj Sahni , Jiannong Cao , Lei Yang , Shengwei Wang

In the past decade, increasingly network scheduling techniques have been proposed to boost the distributed application performance. Flow-level metrics, such as flow completion time (FCT), are based on the abstraction of flows yet they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jiawei Fei , Yang Shi , Qun Huang , Mei Wen

We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Hyeonjoong Cho , Arvind Easwaran

Hybrid parallelism techniques are essential for efficiently training large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, current automatic parallel planning frameworks often overlook the simultaneous consideration of node heterogeneity and dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ruilong Wu , Xinjiao Li , Yisu Wang , Xinyu Chen , Dirk Kutscher

We consider the online buffer minimization in multiprocessor systems with conflicts problem (in short, the buffer minimization problem) in the recently introduced flow model. In an online fashion, workloads arrive on some of the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niklas Haas , Sören Schmitt , Rob van Stee

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

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

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

In order to improve system performance efficiently, a number of systems choose to equip multi-core and many-core processors (such as GPUs). Due to their discrete memory these heterogeneous architectures comprise a distributed system within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hao Wu , Daniel Lohmann , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

This paper addresses the problem of parallelizing computations to study non-linear dynamics in large networks of non-locally coupled oscillators using heterogeneous computing resources. The proposed approach can be applied to a variety of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-04 Oleksandr Sudakov , Volodymyr Maistrenko

Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in shared-nothing parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or disk(s)) and space-shared (e.g., memory) resources and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Minos Garofalakis , Yannis Ioannidis

Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

This paper investigates co-scheduling algorithms for processing a set of parallel applications. Instead of executing each application one by one, using a maximum degree of parallelism for each of them, we aim at scheduling several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Guillaume Aupy , Manu Shantharam , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Padma Raghavan