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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are fundamental to plasma physics but often suffer from limited scalability due to particle-grid interaction bottlenecks and particle redistribution costs. Specifically, the particle-grid interaction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yizhuo Rao , Xingjian Cui , Shangzhi Pang , Jiabin Xie , Guangnan Feng , Jinhui Wei , Ziyan Zhang , Languang Gao , Zhenyu Wang , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

Split learning (SL) offloads main computing tasks from multiple resource-constrained user equippments (UEs) to the base station (BS), while preserving local data privacy. However, its computation and communication processes remain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chenyu Liu , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zirui Chen , Zhaohui Yang

We study the problem of computing conjunctive queries over large databases on parallel architectures without shared storage. Using the structure of such a query $q$ and the skew in the data, we study tradeoffs between the number of…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

Many deep learning applications benefit from using large models with billions of parameters. Training these models is notoriously expensive due to the need for specialized HPC clusters. In this work, we consider alternative setups for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Max Ryabinin , Tim Dettmers , Michael Diskin , Alexander Borzunov

Many modern workloads such as neural network inference and graph processing are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, data movement between memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency and energy. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

We give lower bounds on the communication complexity required to solve several computational problems in a distributed-memory parallel machine, namely standard matrix multiplication, stencil computations, comparison sorting, and the Fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Michele Scquizzato , Francesco Silvestri

This paper gives processor-allocation algorithms for minimizing the average number of communication hops between the assigned processors for grid architectures, in the presence of occupied cells. The simpler problem of assigning processors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael A. Bender , David P. Bunde , Erik D. Demaine , Sandor P. Fekete , Vitus J. Leung , Henk Meijer , Cynthia A. Phillips

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) enhances memory with computational capabilities, potentially solving energy and latency issues associated with data transfer between memory and processors. However, managing concurrent computation and data flow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmed Mamdouh , Haoran Geng , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Dayane Reis

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

Several methods for density matrix propagation in distributed computing environments, such as clusters and graphics processing units, are proposed and evaluated. It is demonstrated that the large communication overhead associated with each…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luke J. Edwards , Ilya Kuprov

Parallel matrix multiplication is one of the most studied fundamental problems in distributed and high performance computing. We obtain a new parallel algorithm that is based on Strassen's fast matrix multiplication and minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Benjamin Lipshitz , Oded Schwartz

Memory-centric computing aims to enable computation capability in and near all places where data is generated and stored. As such, it can greatly reduce the large negative performance and energy impact of data access and data movement, by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Onur Mutlu

Spatial networks, in which nodes and edges are embedded in space, play a vital role in the study of complex systems. For example, many social networks attach geo-location information to each user, allowing the study of not only topological…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Nicholas D. Larusso , Brian E. Ruttenberg , Ambuj Singh

Due to the significant increase in the size of spatial data, it is essential to use distributed parallel processing systems to efficiently analyze spatial data. In this paper, we first study learned spatial data partitioning, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Keizo Hori , Yuya Sasaki , Daichi Amagata , Yuki Murosaki , Makoto Onizuka

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

In algorithms for finite metric spaces, it is common to assume that the distance between two points can be computed in constant time, and complexity bounds are expressed only in terms of the number of points of the metric space. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Michael Kerber , Arnur Nigmetov

On modern parallel architectures, the cost of synchronization among processors can often dominate the cost of floating-point computation. Several modifications of the existing methods have been proposed in order to keep the communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qinmeng Zou , Frederic Magoules

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a widely used kernel in various graph, scientific computing and machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we consider SpGEMMs performed on hundreds of thousands of processors generating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Md Taufique Hussain , Oguz Selvitopi , Aydin Buluç , Ariful Azad

Modern computer systems are characterized by deep memory hierarchies, composed of main memory, multiple layers of cache, and other specialized types of memory. In parallel and distributed systems, additional memory layers are added to this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-18 David Walker , Anthony Skjellum

While the cost of computation is an easy to understand local property, the cost of data movement on cached architectures depends on global state, does not compose, and is hard to predict. As a result, programmers often fail to consider the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tobias Gysi , Tobias Grosser , Laurin Brandner , Torsten Hoefler