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Quantum Internetworking is a recent field that promises numerous interesting applications, many of which require the distribution of entanglement between arbitrary pairs of users. This work deals with the problem of scheduling in an…

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Modern GPU clusters, particularly those built on NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) architecture, often suffer from inefficiencies because jobs are treated as rigid, indivisible blocks that occupy a fixed slice until completion. The reliance…

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While deploying large language models on edge devices promises low-latency and privacy-preserving AI services, it is hindered by limited device resources. Although pipeline parallelism facilitates distributed inference, existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuran Liu , Nan Xue , Rui Bao , Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

This paper addresses the computational offloading of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to nearby devices with similar processing capabilities, to avoid the larger communication delays incurred for cloud offloading. We present a preemption aware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jamie Cotter , Ignacio Castineiras , Donna O'Shea , Victor Cionca

Existing GPU-sharing techniques, including spatial and temporal sharing, aim to improve utilization but face challenges in simultaneously ensuring SLO adherence and maximizing efficiency due to the lack of fine-grained task scheduling on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Tiancheng Hu , Chenxi Wang , Ting Cao , Jin Qin , Lei Chen , Xinyu Xiao , Junhao Hu , Hongliang Tian , Shoumeng Yan , Huimin Cui , Quan Chen , Tao Xie

Several classic problems in graph processing and computational geometry are solved via incremental algorithms, which split computation into a series of small tasks acting on shared state, which gets updated progressively. While the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Alistarh , Nikita Koval , Giorgi Nadiradze

To amortize cost, cloud vendors providing DNN acceleration as a service to end-users employ consolidation and virtualization to share the underlying resources among multiple DNN service requests. This paper makes a case for a "preemptible"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yujeong Choi , Minsoo Rhu

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Scheduling real-time tasks that utilize GPUs with analyzable guarantees poses a significant challenge due to the intricate interaction between CPU and GPU resources, as well as the complex GPU hardware and software stack. While much…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yidi Wang , Cong Liu , Daniel Wong , Hyoseung Kim

Modern large multicore systems often run multiple workloads that share CPUs under schedulers such as Linux CFS. To keep CPUs busy, these schedulers load-balance runnable work, causing each workload to execute on many cores. This weakens…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jin Xin Ng , Ori Livneh , Richard O'Grady , Josh Don , Peng Ding , Samuel Grossman , Luis Otero , Chris Kennelly , David Lo , Carlos Villavieja

Large language models now serve millions of users daily, with providers incurring costs exceeding $700,000 per day. Each request requires token-by-token inference, making GPU scheduling central to latency, capacity, and cost. The difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ruicheng Ao , Gan Luo , David Simchi-Levi , Xinshang Wang

Long-horizon tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and dynamic re-planning remain challenging for large language models (LLMs). Sequential prompting methods are prone to context drift, loss of goal information, and recurrent failure cycles,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhenyu Zhang , Tianyi Chen , Weiran Xu , Alex Pentland , Jiaxin Pei

With the growing model size, deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly trained over massive GPU accelerators, which demands a proper parallelization plan that transforms a DNN model into fine-grained tasks and then schedules them to GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Zhiqi Lin , Youshan Miao , Guodong Liu , Xiaoxiang Shi , Quanlu Zhang , Fan Yang , Saeed Maleki , Yi Zhu , Xu Cao , Cheng Li , Mao Yang , Lintao Zhang , Lidong Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming critical infrastructure for enterprise applications, driving unprecedented demand for GPU-based inference services. A key operational challenge arises from the two-phase nature of LLM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ruihan Lin , Zezhen Ding , Zean Han , Jiheng Zhang

Video diffusion models (VDMs) perform attention computation over the 3D spatio-temporal domain. Compared to large language models (LLMs) processing 1D sequences, their memory consumption scales cubically, necessitating parallel serving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhiyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Li Chen , Kaihui Gao , Dan Li , Yanyu Ren , Qiming Zhang , Yong Wang

Large Language Models have revolutionized natural language processing, yet serving them efficiently in data centers remains challenging due to mixed workloads comprising latency-sensitive (LS) and best-effort (BE) jobs. Existing inference…

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Reliance on external localization infrastructure and centralized coordination are main limiting factors for formation flying of vehicles in large numbers and in unprepared environments. While solutions using onboard localization address the…

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Accurate prediction of laminar-turbulent transition is a critical element of computational fluid dynamics simulations for aerodynamic design across multiple flow regimes. Traditional methods of transition prediction cannot be easily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-17 Muhammad I. Zafar , Meelan M. Choudhari , Pedro Paredes , Heng Xiao

In this paper we describe HeSP, a complete simulation framework to study a general task scheduling-partitioning problem on heterogeneous architectures, which treats recursive task partitioning and scheduling decisions on equal footing.…

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