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Compound AI Systems, integrating multiple interacting components like models, retrievers, and external tools, have emerged as essential for addressing complex AI tasks. However, current implementations suffer from inefficient resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Esha Choukse , Íñigo Goiri , Rodrigo Fonseca , Adam Belay , Ricardo Bianchini

Scheduling of constrained deadline sporadic task systems on multiprocessor platforms is an area which has received much attention in the recent past. It is widely believed that finding an optimal scheduler is hard, and therefore most…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Arvind Easwaran , Insik Shin , Insup Lee

Training machine learning (ML) models with large datasets can incur significant resource contention on shared clusters. This training typically involves many iterations that continually improve the quality of the model. Yet in exploratory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Haoyu Zhang , Logan Stafman , Andrew Or , Michael J. Freedman

Containerization technology offers lightweight OS-level virtualization, and enables portability, reproducibility, and flexibility by packing applications with low performance overhead and low effort to maintain and scale them. Moreover,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Peini Liu , Jordi Guitart

Rapid advancements in cloud based platforms providing access to quantum computing capabilities have opened up several challenges for efficient usage of these highly delicate and costly devices. Although most of the current systems use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhishek Sawaika , Udaya Parampalli , Rajkumar Buyya

Efficiently training large-scale models (LMs) in GPU clusters involves two separate avenues: inter-job dynamic scheduling and intra-job adaptive parallelism (AP). However, existing dynamic schedulers struggle with large-model scheduling due…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chunyu Xue , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Chen Chen , Han Zhao , Shulai Zhang , Linmei Wang , Yan Li , Limin Xiao , Weifeng Zhang , Jing Yang , Bingsheng He , Minyi Guo

We describe in this paper a new method for building an efficient algorithm for scheduling jobs in a cluster. Jobs are considered as parallel tasks (PT) which can be scheduled on any number of processors. The main feature is to consider two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Pierre-Francois Dutot , Lionel Eyraud , Grégory Mounié , Denis Trystram

With rapidly increasing distributed deep learning workloads in large-scale data centers, efficient distributed deep learning framework strategies for resource allocation and workload scheduling have become the key to high-performance deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Feng Liang , Zhen Zhang , Haifeng Lu , Chengming Li , Victor C. M. Leung , Yanyi Guo , Xiping Hu

Modern distributed machine learning (ML) training workloads benefit significantly from leveraging GPUs. However, significant contention ensues when multiple such workloads are run atop a shared cluster of GPUs. A key question is how to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Kshiteej Mahajan , Arjun Balasubramanian , Arjun Singhvi , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella , Amar Phanishayee , Shuchi Chawla

In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing has emerged as a promising avenue for addressing the growing computational demands of AI applications. This paper presents a comprehensive study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Neelesh Mungoli

GPUs are vastly underutilized, even when running resource-intensive AI applications, as GPU kernels within each job have diverse resource profiles that may saturate some parts of a device while often leaving other parts idle. Colocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Elvinger , Foteini Strati , Natalie Enright Jerger , Ana Klimovic

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

Large robot fleets are now common in warehouses and other logistics settings, where small control gains translate into large operational impacts. In this article, we address task scheduling for lifelong Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Johannes Gaber , Meshal Alharbi , Daniele Gammelli , Gioele Zardini

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm enabling sharing of the coupled data, computation, and networking resources among heterogeneous geo-distributed edge nodes. Recently, there has been a trend to orchestrate and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Lei Yang , Liang Zhang , Yuvraj Sahni , Shan Jiang

We propose a novel GPU-cluster scheduler for distributed DL (DDL) workloads that enables proximity based consolidation of GPU resources based on the DDL jobs' sensitivities to the anticipated communication-network delays. Our scheduler…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aakash Sharma , Vivek M. Bhasi , Sonali Singh , George Kesidis , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Chita R. Das

We present Canary, a scheduling architecture that allows high performance analytics workloads to scale out to run on thousands of cores. Canary is motivated by the observation that a central scheduler is a bottleneck for high performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Hang Qu , Omid Mashayekhi , David Terei , Philip Levis

In this study, a cluster-computing environment is employed as a computational platform. In order to increase the efficiency of the system, a dynamic task scheduling algorithm is proposed, which balances the load among the nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-22 I. K. Savvas , M. Tahar Kechadi

Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Qianlin Liang , Walid A. Hanafy , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

AI agents are emerging as a dominant workload in a wide range of applications, promising to be the vehicle that delivers the promised benefits of AI to enterprises and consumers. Unlike conventional software or static inference, agentic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zain Asgar , Michelle Nguyen , Sachin Katti

Nowadays, many companies possess various types of AI accelerators, forming heterogeneous clusters. Efficiently leveraging these clusters for high-throughput large language model (LLM) inference services can significantly reduce costs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yi Xiong , Jinqi Huang , Wenjie Huang , Xuebing Yu , Entong Li , Zhixiong Ning , Jinhua Zhou , Li Zeng , Xin Chen