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When should we encourage specialization in multi-agent systems versus train generalists that perform the entire task independently? We propose that specialization largely depends on task parallelizability: the potential for multiple agents…

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

In the world of supercomputers, the large number of processors requires to minimize the inefficiencies of parallelization, which appear as a sequential part of the program from the point of view of Amdahl's law. The recently suggested new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-02 János Végh

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer

We consider a large-scale parallel-server system, where each server independently adjusts its processing speed in a decentralized manner. The objective is to minimize the overall cost, which comprises the average cost of maintaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Daan Rutten , Martin Zubeldia , Debankur Mukherjee

As supercomputers' complexity has grown, the traditional boundaries between processor, memory, network, and accelerators have blurred, making a homogeneous computer model, in which the overall computer system is modeled as a continuous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Martin Karp , Niclas Jansson , Philipp Schlatter , Stefano Markidis

This paper argues that continued AI scaling requires repeated efficiency doublings. Classical AI scaling laws remain useful because they make progress predictable despite diminishing returns, but the compute variable in those laws is best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chien-Ping Lu

The paper highlights that the cooperation of the components of the computing systems receives even more focus in the coming age of exascale computing. It discovers that inherent performance limitations exist and identifies the major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-17 János Végh

While Learned Data Compression (LDC) has achieved superior compression ratios, balancing precise probability modeling with system efficiency remains challenging. Crucially, uniform single-stream architectures struggle to simultaneously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Huidong Ma , Xinyan Shi , Hui Sun , Xiaofei Yue , Xiaoguang Liu , Gang Wang , Wentong Cai

In large-scale AI systems, allocating scarce resources such as GPU compute time and bandwidth among multiple agents is a critical challenge. Conventional policies focus on efficiency metrics, potentially leading to dominance concentration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Ji-Won Park , Chae Un Kim

The universal scalability law (USL) is an analytic model used to quantify application scaling. It is universal because it subsumes Amdahl's law and Gustafson linearized scaling as special cases. Using simulation, we show: (i) that the USL…

Performance · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Jim Holtman , Neil J. Gunther

With the advent of exascale computing, effective load balancing in massively parallel software applications is critically important for leveraging the full potential of high performance computing systems. Load balancing is the distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Omer Rathore , Alastair Basden , Nicholas Chancellor , Halim Kusumaatmaja

A renewal system divides the slotted timeline into back to back time periods called renewal frames. At the beginning of each frame, it chooses a policy from a set of options for that frame. The policy determines the duration of the frame,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Xiaohan Wei

A myriad of applications ranging from engineering and scientific simulations, image and signal processing as well as high-sensitive data retrieval demand high processing power reaching up to teraflops for their efficient execution. While a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Patrick Mukala

Schedulability is a fundamental problem in real-time scheduling, but it has to be approximated due to the intrinsic computational hardness. As the most popular algorithm for deciding schedulability on multiprocess platforms, the speedup…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xin Han , Liang Zhao , Zhishan Guo , Xingwu Liu

The assumption of maximum parallelism support for the successful realization of scalable quantum computers has led to homogeneous, ``sea-of-qubits'' architectures. The resulting architectures overcome the primary challenges of reliability…

The remarkable progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is foundation-ally linked to a concurrent revolution in computer architecture. As AI models, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have grown in complexity, their massive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shahid Amin , Syed Pervez Hussnain Shah

Traditional heterogeneous parallel algorithms, designed for heterogeneous clusters of workstations, are based on the assumption that the absolute speed of the processors does not depend on the size of the computational task. This assumption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-15 Alexey Lastovetsky , Ravi Reddy , Vladimir Rychkov , David Clarke

We improve complexity bounds for energy-efficient speed scheduling problems for both the single processor and multi-processor cases. Energy conservation has become a major concern, so revisiting traditional scheduling problems to take into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Zhentao Li , Claire Mathieu , Ioannis Millis

Modern edge AI workloads demand maximum energy efficiency, motivating the pursuit of analog Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures. Simultaneously, the popularity of Large-Language-Models (LLMs) drives the adoption of low-bit floating-point…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Brian Rojkov , Shubham Ranjan , Derek Wright , Manoj Sachdev