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Modern AI workloads, especially Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, increasingly demand low-latency, fine-grained GPU-to-GPU communication with device-side control. Traditional GPU communication follows a host-initiated model, where the…
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Modern compute nodes in high-performance computing provide a tremendous level of parallelism and processing power. However, as arithmetic performance has been observed to increase at a faster rate relative to memory and network bandwidths,…
Improving time-to-solution in molecular dynamics simulations often requires strong scaling due to fixed-sized problems. GROMACS is highly latency-sensitive, with peak iteration rates in the sub-millisecond, making scalability on…
GPU-aware collective communication has become a major bottleneck for modern computing platforms as GPU computing power rapidly rises. A traditional approach is to directly integrate lossy compression into GPU-aware collectives, which can…
In recent years, GPUs have become the preferred accelerators for HPC and ML applications due to their parallelism and fast memory bandwidth. While GPUs boost computation, inter-GPU communication can create scalability bottlenecks,…
HiCCL (Hierarchical Collective Communication Library) addresses the growing complexity and diversity in high-performance network architectures. As GPU systems have envolved into networks of GPUs with different multilevel communication…
Highly parallelized workloads like machine learning training, inferences and general HPC tasks are greatly accelerated using GPU devices. In a cloud computing cluster, serving a GPU's computation power through multi-tasks sharing is highly…
Modern heterogeneous supercomputing systems are comprised of compute blades that offer CPUs and GPUs. On such systems, it is essential to move data efficiently between these different compute engines across a high-speed network. While…
Graphics processors, or GPUs, have recently been widely used as accelerators in the shared environments such as clusters and clouds. In such shared environments, many kernels are submitted to GPUs from different users, and throughput is an…
On-chip communication infrastructure is a central component of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), and it continues to gain importance as the number of cores, the heterogeneity of components, and the on-chip and off-chip bandwidth continue to…
Dense Multi-GPU systems have recently gained a lot of attention in the HPC arena. Traditionally, MPI runtimes have been primarily designed for clusters with a large number of nodes. However, with the advent of MPI+CUDA applications and…
Modern GPU-based high-performance computing clusters offer unprecedented communication bandwidth through heterogeneous intra-node interconnects and inter-node networks. However, despite this high aggregate bandwidth, many real-world…
Stencil computations are widely used in HPC applications. Today, many HPC platforms use GPUs as accelerators. As a result, understanding how to perform stencil computations fast on GPUs is important. While implementation strategies for…
Communication has become a first-order bottleneck in large-cale GPU workloads, and existing distributed compilers address it mainly by overlapping whole compute and communication kernels at the stream level. This coarse granularity incurs…
Full batch training of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) models is not feasible on a single GPU for large graphs containing tens of millions of vertices or more. Recent work has shown that, for the graphs used in the machine learning…
Distributed deep neural network training necessitates efficient GPU collective communications, which are inherently susceptible to deadlocks. GPU collective deadlocks arise easily in distributed deep learning applications when multiple…
Application development for distributed computing "Grids" can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these issues,…
Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computing paradigm that represents, manipulates, and communicates data using very long random vectors (aka hypervectors). Among different hardware platforms capable of executing HDC…