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We study classical deadline-based preemptive scheduling of tasks in a computing environment equipped with both dynamic speed scaling and sleep state capabilities: Each task is specified by a release time, a deadline and a processing volume,…

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With the rapid growth of IoT devices and their diverse workloads, container-based microservices deployed at edge nodes have become a lightweight and scalable solution. However, existing microservice scheduling algorithms often assume static…

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Serving systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) improve throughput by processing several requests concurrently. However, multiplexing hardware resources between concurrent requests involves non-trivial scheduling decisions. Practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ferdi Kossmann , Bruce Fontaine , Daya Khudia , Michael Cafarella , Samuel Madden

We present a federated, asynchronous, memory-limited algorithm for online task scheduling across large-scale networks of hundreds of workers. This is achieved through recent advancements in federated edge computing that unlocks the ability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Andreas Grammenos , Evangelia Kalyvianaki , Peter Pietzuch

Plan Recognition algorithms require to recognize a complete hierarchy explaining the agent's actions and goals. While the output of such algorithms is informative to the recognizer, the cost of its calculation is high in run-time, space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Retuh Mirsky , Ya'akov , Gal

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Pipeline Parallelism (PP) serves as a crucial technique for training Large Language Models (LLMs), owing to its capability to alleviate memory pressure from model states with relatively low communication overhead. However, in long-context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhouyang Li , Yuliang Liu , Wei Zhang , Tailing Yuan , Bin Chen , Chengru Song , Di Zhang

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

This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach to scheduling mixed-criticality (MC) systems on processors with varying speeds. Building upon the foundation laid by [1], we extend their work to address the non-preemptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad El-Mahdy , Nourhan Sakr , Rodrigo Carrasco

The pursuit of general-purpose artificial intelligence depends on large language models (LLMs) that can handle both structured reasoning and open-ended generation. We present Omni-Thinker, a unified reinforcement learning (RL) framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Derek Li , Jiaming Zhou , Leo Maxime Brunswic , Abbas Ghaddar , Qianyi Sun , Liheng Ma , Yu Luo , Dong Li , Mark Coates , Jianye Hao , Yingxue Zhang

A key feature of the packet scheduler in LTE system is that it can allocate resources both in the time and frequency domain. Furthermore, the scheduler is acquainted with channel state information periodically reported by user equipments…

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In today's enterprise storage systems, supported data services such as snapshot delete or drive rebuild can cause tremendous performance interference if executed inline along with heavy foreground IO, often leading to missing SLOs (Service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Maher Kachmar , David Kaeli

Multi-socket multi-core servers are used for solving some of the important problems in computing. Remote DRAM accesses can impact performance of certain applications running on such servers. This paper presents a new near linear operating…

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The paper presents an efficient real-time scheduling algorithm for intelligent real-time edge services, defined as those that perform machine intelligence tasks, such as voice recognition, LIDAR processing, or machine vision, on behalf of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuochao Yao , Yifan Hao , Yiran Zhao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Jinyang Li , Tarek Abdelzaher

Performance-, power-, and energy-aware scheduling techniques play an essential role in optimally utilizing processing elements (PEs) of heterogeneous systems. List schedulers, a class of low-complexity static schedulers, have commonly been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Joshua Mack , Samet E. Arda , Umit Y. Ogras , Ali Akoglu

Large Language Model (LLM) workloads have distinct prefill and decode phases with different compute and memory requirements which should ideally be accounted for when scheduling input queries across different LLM instances in a cluster.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Kunal Jain , Anjaly Parayil , Ankur Mallick , Esha Choukse , Xiaoting Qin , Jue Zhang , Íñigo Goiri , Rujia Wang , Chetan Bansal , Victor Rühle , Anoop Kulkarni , Steve Kofsky , Saravan Rajmohan

Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge. In mainstream RL frameworks, inference and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Lu

In this paper, we explore how a natural generalization of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) can be a powerful \emph{meta-algorithm} for online scheduling. The meta-algorithm processes jobs to maximally reduce the objective of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Qingyun Chen , Sungjin Im , Aditya Petety

This paper presents Block, a distributed scheduling framework designed to optimize load balancing and auto-provisioning across instances in large language model serving frameworks by leveraging contextual information from incoming requests.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Wei Da , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized applications such as code completion, chatbots, and online classification. To elevate user experiences, service level objectives (SLOs) serve as crucial benchmarks for assessing inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jinqi Huang , Yi Xiong , Xuebing Yu , Wenjie Huang , Entong Li , Li Zeng , Xin Chen