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Efficiently scaling deep neural networks across GPU clusters requires navigating complex trade-offs between computational throughput, memory utilization, and synchronization overhead. This paper presents a unified empirical evaluation of…

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Load balance is important for MapReduce to reduce job duration, increase parallel efficiency, etc. Previous work focuses on coarse-grained scheduling. This study concerns fine-grained scheduling on MapReduce operations. Each operation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Liya Fan , Bo Gao , Xi Sun , Fa Zhang , Zhiyong Liu

In order to satisfy timing constraints, modern real-time applications require massively parallel accelerators such as General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs). Generation after generation, the number of computing clusters made…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Houssam-Eddine Zahaf , Ignacio Sanudo Olmedo , Jayati Singh , Nicola Capodieci , Sebastien Faucou

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a widely popular workload in both enterprises and cloud data centers. Existing schedulers for DNN training consider GPU as the dominant resource, and allocate other resources such as CPU and memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jayashree Mohan , Amar Phanishayee , Janardhan Kulkarni , Vijay Chidambaram

Modern cloud platforms increasingly host large-scale deep learning (DL) workloads, demanding high-throughput, low-latency GPU scheduling. However, the growing heterogeneity of GPU clusters and limited visibility into application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shruti Dongare , Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan , Hadeel Albahar , Nannan Zhao , Diego Melendez Maita , Ali R. Butt

Pollux improves scheduling performance in deep learning (DL) clusters by adaptively co-optimizing inter-dependent factors both at the per-job level and at the cluster-wide level. Most existing schedulers expect users to specify the number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Aurick Qiao , Sang Keun Choe , Suhas Jayaram Subramanya , Willie Neiswanger , Qirong Ho , Hao Zhang , Gregory R. Ganger , Eric P. Xing

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies disrupt a wide range of industries, cloud datacenters face ever-increasing demand in inference workloads. However, conventional CPU-based servers cannot handle excessive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jung-Hoon Kim , Sungyeob Yoo , Seungjae Moon , Joo-Young Kim

The recent explosive growth of deep learning (DL) models has necessitated a compelling need for efficient job scheduling for distributed deep learning training with mixed parallelisms (DDLwMP) in GPU clusters. This paper proposes an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Ziyue Luo , Jia Liu , Myungjin Lee , Ness B. Shroff

Optimizing resource utilization in high-performance computing (HPC) clusters is essential for maximizing both system efficiency and user satisfaction. However, traditional rigid job scheduling often results in underutilized resources and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Patrick Zojer , Jonas Posner , Taylan Özden

As the Moore's scaling era comes to an end, application specific hardware accelerators appear as an attractive way to improve the performance and power efficiency of our computing systems. A massively heterogeneous system with a large…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kartik Hegde , Abhishek Srivastava , Rohit Agrawal

Automatic industrial scheduling, aiming at optimizing the sequence of jobs over limited resources, is widely needed in manufacturing industries. However, existing scheduling systems heavily rely on heuristic algorithms, which either…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Longkang Li , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Jiawen Lu , XialiangTong , Jia Zeng , Jun Wang , Dirk Schnieders

In the most popular distributed stream processing frameworks (DSPFs), programs are modeled as a directed acyclic graph. This model allows a DSPF to benefit from the parallelism power of distributed clusters. However, choosing the proper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hamid Nasiri , Saeed Nasehi , Arman Divband , Maziar Goudarzi

We consider the design of efficient algorithms for a multicore computing environment with a global shared memory and p cores, each having a cache of size M, and with data organized in blocks of size B. We characterize the class of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Richard Cole , Vijaya Ramachandran

Modern SoCs integrate multiple CPU cores and Hardware Accelerators (HWAs) that share the same main memory system, causing interference among memory requests from different agents. The result of this interference, if not controlled well, is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Hiroyuki Usui , Lavanya Subramanian , Kevin Chang , Onur Mutlu

As deep learning models are increasingly deployed on mobile devices, modern mobile devices incorporate deep learning-specific accelerators to handle the growing computational demands, thus increasing their hardware heterogeneity. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Duseok Kang , Yunseong Lee , Junghoon Kim

Most neural network scheduling research focuses on optimizing static, end-to-end models of fixed width, overlooking dynamic approaches that adapt to heterogeneous hardware and fluctuating runtime conditions. We present Slim Scheduler, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ian Harshbarger , Calvin Chidambaram

This paper first presents a parallel solution for the Flowshop Scheduling Problem in parallel environment, and then proposes a novel load balancing strategy. The proposed Proportional Fairness Strategy (PFS) takes computational performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Zheng Sun , Xiaohong Huang , Yan Ma

In recent years, the issue of energy consumption in high performance computing (HPC) systems has attracted a great deal of attention. In response to this, many energy-aware algorithms have been developed in different layers of HPC systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi

Energy consumption is a critical design issue in real-time systems, especially in battery- operated systems. Maintaining high performance, while extending the battery life between charges is an interesting challenge for system designers.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Santhi Baskaran , P. Thambidurai

Multi-user schedulers are designed to achieve optimal average system utility (e.g. throughput) subject to a set of fairness criteria. In this work, scheduling under temporal fairness constraints is considered. Prior works have shown that a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Farhad Shirani , Shahram Shahsavari , Elza Erkip