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20192026
most citedEvaluating Modern GPU Interconnect: PCIe, NVLink, NV-SLI, NVSwitch and GPUDirect

305 citations · 320 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.DC2026

LayerCheck: Adaptive Layer-wise Checkpointing for Large Language Model Post-training

Minqiu Sun, Xin Huang, Luanzheng Guo +3

With the rising computational and monetary costs of training large language models (LLMs), checkpointing---periodically storing model states for recovery---becomes essential for fa…

cs.DC2026

ZOCheck: CPU-Shadow Checkpointing for Zeroth-Order LLM Fine-Tuning

Minqiu Sun, Xin Huang, Luanzheng Guo +3

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is an attractive option for memory-efficient LLM fine-tuning, but its fault tolerance remains underexplored. Unlike first-order training, ZO progress…

cs.DC2026

Effects of Hybrid CPU and Cache Architectures on Parallel HPC and Cloud Applications

Nanda Velugoti, Joseph Manzano, Nathan Tallent +1

Hybrid CPU architectures have entered the mainstream desktop computing with the announcement of Intel's Alderlake architecture. Such a transition to heterogeneous CPU architecture…

cs.DC2026

MEMPOWER: Efficient Power Management with Fine-grained Memory Analysis and Modeling for HPC Workloads

Nanda Velugoti, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez +2

Managing the energy consumption and power efficiency of parallel applications is a significant issue in both HPC environments and in the cloud. As emerging applications continue to…

cs.LG2026

NOMAD: Generating Embeddings for Massive Distributed Graphs

Aishwarya Sarkar, Sayan Ghosh, Nathan R. Tallent +1

Successful machine learning on graphs or networks requires embeddings that not only represent nodes and edges as low-dimensional vectors but also preserve the graph structure. Esta…

cs.LG2026

Communication-free Sampling and 4D Hybrid Parallelism for Scalable Mini-batch GNN Training

Cunyang Wei, Siddharth Singh, Aishwarya Sarkar +7

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning on graph datasets derived from various real-world scenarios. Learning from extremely large graphs requires distributed tra…

cs.LG2026

SCOPE: Scalable Training-Free Semantic Coreset Selection for Long-Tailed Federated Learning

Md Anwar Hossen, Nathan R. Tallent, Luanzheng Guo +1

Scientific discovery increasingly relies on federated learning over data from high-resolution instruments, and these data are strongly non-IID and long-tailed. Coreset selection co…

cs.DC2026

QoSFlow: Ensuring Service Quality of Distributed Workflows Using Interpretable Sensitivity Models

Md Hasanur Rashid, Jesun Firoz, Nathan R. Tallent +3

With the increasing importance of distributed scientific workflows, there is a critical need to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) constraints, such as minimizing time or limiting exe…

cs.LG2026

Rudder: Steering Prefetching in Distributed GNN Training using LLM Agents

Aishwarya Sarkar, Sayan Ghosh, Nathan Tallent +3

Large-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are typically trained by sampling a vertex's neighbors to a fixed distance. Because large input graphs are distributed, training requires f…

cs.DC2026

CARAT: Client-Side Adaptive RPC and Cache Co-Tuning for Parallel File Systems

Md Hasanur Rashid, Nathan R. Tallent, Forrest Sheng Bao +1

Tuning parallel file system in High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems remains challenging due to the complex I/O paths, diverse I/O patterns, and dynamic system conditions. While…

cs.DC2026★ 2 cited

LLMTailor: A Layer-wise Tailoring Tool for Efficient Checkpointing of Large Language Models

Minqiu Sun, Xin Huang, Luanzheng Guo +3

Checkpointing is essential for fault tolerance in training large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods, regardless of their I/O strategies, periodically store the entir…

cs.IR2025

ProHD: Projection-Based Hausdorff Distance Approximation

Jiuzhou Fu, Luanzheng Guo, Nathan R. Tallent +1

The Hausdorff distance (HD) is a robust measure of set dissimilarity, but computing it exactly on large, high-dimensional datasets is prohibitively expensive. We propose \textbf{Pr…

cs.DC2025

On The Reproducibility Limitations of RAG Systems

Baiqiang Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Nathan R Tallent +1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly employed in generative AI-driven scientific workflows to integrate rapidly evolving scientific knowledge bases, yet its reliabi…

cs.DC2025

PowerTrip: Exploiting Federated Heterogeneous Datacenter Power for Distributed ML Training

Talha Mehboob, Luanzheng Guo, Nathan Tallent +2

The exponential growth of large-scale AI models has led to computational and power demands that can exceed the capacity of a single data center. This is due to the limited power su…

cs.DS2025

HybHuff: Lossless Compression for Hypergraphs via Entropy-Guided Huffman-Bitwise Coordination

Tianyu Zhao, Dongfang Zhao, Luanzheng Guo +1

Hypergraphs provide a natural representation for many-to-many relationships in data-intensive applications, yet their scalability is often hindered by high memory consumption. Whil…

cs.CV2025

SuperSAM: Crafting a SAM Supernetwork via Structured Pruning and Unstructured Parameter Prioritization

Waqwoya Abebe, Sadegh Jafari, Sixing Yu +6

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-sh…

cs.DC2024

MassiveGNN: Efficient Training via Prefetching for Massively Connected Distributed Graphs

Aishwarya Sarkar, Sayan Ghosh, Nathan R. Tallent +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are indispensable in learning from graph-structured data, yet their rising computational costs, especially on massively connected graphs, pose significa…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Final Report for CHESS: Cloud, High-Performance Computing, and Edge for Science and Security

Nathan Tallent, Jan Strube, Luanzheng Guo +9

Automating the theory-experiment cycle requires effective distributed workflows that utilize a computing continuum spanning lab instruments, edge sensors, computing resources at mu…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Workflows Community Summit 2024: Future Trends and Challenges in Scientific Workflows

Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Deborah Bard, Kyle Chard +108

The Workflows Community Summit gathered 111 participants from 18 countries to discuss emerging trends and challenges in scientific workflows, focusing on six key areas: time-sensit…

cs.DC2024

Overcoming Memory Constraints in Quantum Circuit Simulation with a High-Fidelity Compression Framework

Boyuan Zhang, Bo Fang, Fanjiang Ye +4

Full-state quantum circuit simulation requires exponentially increased memory size to store the state vector as the number of qubits scales, presenting significant limitations in c…

cs.LG2024

Order-Preserving Dimension Reduction for Multimodal Semantic Embedding

Chengyu Gong, Gefei Shen, Luanzheng Guo +2

Searching for the -nearest neighbors (KNN) in multimodal data retrieval is computationally expensive, particularly due to the inherent difficulty in comparing similarity measure…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 11 cited

SAM-I-Am: Semantic Boosting for Zero-shot Atomic-Scale Electron Micrograph Segmentation

Waqwoya Abebe, Jan Strube, Luanzheng Guo +5

Image segmentation is a critical enabler for tasks ranging from medical diagnostics to autonomous driving. However, the correct segmentation semantics - where are boundaries locate…

cs.DC2022

Bit-GraphBLAS: Bit-Level Optimizations of Matrix-Centric Graph Processing on GPU

Jou-An Chen, Hsin-Hsuan Sung, Xipeng Shen +3

In a general graph data structure like an adjacency matrix, when edges are homogeneous, the connectivity of two nodes can be sufficiently represented using a single bit. This insig…

cs.AR2019★ 305 cited

Evaluating Modern GPU Interconnect: PCIe, NVLink, NV-SLI, NVSwitch and GPUDirect

Ang Li, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Jieyang Chen +4

High performance multi-GPU computing becomes an inevitable trend due to the ever-increasing demand on computation capability in emerging domains such as deep learning, big data and…