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most citedSizey: Memory-Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflow Tasks

9 citations · 25 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

E8 Lattice Key Quantization for Low-Bit KV-Cache Compression

Sasho Nedelkoski, Alexander Acker, Soeren Becker +2

Compressing the key-value (KV) cache is essential for serving long-context large language models (LLMs) under memory constraints. While current scalar quantization methods achieve…

cs.DC2026

Reconciling Bottom-Up Metrics with Top-Down Reporting for Cloud Carbon Accounting

Philipp Wiesner, Loïc Lannelongue, Alexander Acker +1

Organizations seeking to reduce the carbon footprint of their cloud applications must rely on two largely disconnected ways of measuring it, each with important limitations. Bottom…

cs.LG2026

Collaborative Reasoning Distillation via Cross-Feedback and Coherent Curation

Taehoon Kim, Seunggeun Cho, Dongsu Han

Reasoning capabilities are critical for advancing Large Language Models, yet current approaches either require massive computational budgets or struggle to effectively distill reas…

cs.DC2026

About the Influence of Workflow Topology on Task Intensity Prediction through Graph Learning

Max Otto, Haci Ismail Aslan, Joel Witzke +2

Efficient resource provisioning for large-scale workflows on cloud infrastructures is a critical performance engineering challenge. These workflows are often structured as directed…

cs.AI2026★ 3 cited

Scalable and Data-Driven Decision Support in the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Process

Houkun Zhu, Helena Ebel, Dominik Scheinert +3

Several businesses apply maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) principles to the life-cycle of their existing products. In cases like casted gas turbine component Product Lifecyc…

cs.DC2026★ 1 cited

Optimizing Memory Allocation in Distributed Clusters with Predictive Modeling

Jonathan Bader, Edgar Blumenthal, Marten Eckardt +5

In modern distributed systems, efficient resource allocation is a vital aspect to maintain scalability, reduce operational costs, and ensure fast execution even across heterogeneou…

cs.DC2026

Beyond Microservices: Testing Web-Scale RCA Methods on GPU-Driven LLM Workloads

Dominik Scheinert, Alexander Acker, Thorsten Wittkopp +6

Large language model (LLM) services have become an integral part of search, assistance, and decision-making applications. However, unlike traditional web or microservices, the hard…

cs.DC2025

What happens when nanochat meets DiLoCo?

Alexander Acker, Soeren Becker, Sasho Nedelkoski +3

Although LLM training is typically centralized with high-bandwidth interconnects and large compute budgets, emerging methods target communication-constrained training in distribute…

cs.DC2025

Learning Process Energy Profiles from Node-Level Power Data

Jonathan Bader, Julius Irion, Jannis Kappel +4

The growing demand for data center capacity, driven by the growth of high-performance computing, cloud computing, and especially artificial intelligence, has led to a sharp increas…

cs.LG2025

Distributed Low-Communication Training with Decoupled Momentum Optimization

Sasho Nedelkoski, Alexander Acker, Odej Kao +2

The training of large models demands substantial computational resources, typically available only in data centers with high-bandwidth interconnects. However, reducing the reliance…

cs.DC2025

Optimizing Microgrid Composition for Sustainable Data Centers

Julius Irion, Philipp Wiesner, Jonathan Bader +1

As computing energy demand continues to grow and electrical grid infrastructure struggles to keep pace, an increasing number of data centers are being planned with colocated microg…

cs.DC2025

Predicting the Performance of Scientific Workflow Tasks for Cluster Resource Management: An Overview of the State of the Art

Jonathan Bader, Kathleen West, Soeren Becker +5

Scientific workflow management systems support large-scale data analysis on cluster infrastructures. For this, they interact with resource managers which schedule workflow tasks on…

cs.DC2025

Flora: Efficient Cloud Resource Selection for Big Data Processing via Job Classification

Jonathan Will, Lauritz Thamsen, Jonathan Bader +1

Distributed dataflow systems like Spark and Flink enable data-parallel processing of large datasets on clusters of cloud resources. Yet, selecting appropriate computational resourc…

cs.DC2025

Experimentally Evaluating the Resource Efficiency of Big Data Autoscaling

Jonathan Will, Nico Treide, Lauritz Thamsen +1

Distributed dataflow systems like Spark and Flink enable data-parallel processing of large datasets on clusters. Yet, selecting appropriate computational resources for dataflow job…

cs.DC2024★ 5 cited

KS+: Predicting Workflow Task Memory Usage Over Time

Jonathan Bader, Ansgar Lößer, Lauritz Thamsen +2

Scientific workflow management systems enable the reproducible execution of data analysis pipelines on cluster infrastructures managed by resource managers such as Kubernetes, Slur…

cs.DC2024★ 9 cited

Sizey: Memory-Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflow Tasks

Jonathan Bader, Fabian Skalski, Fabian Lehmann +4

As the amount of available data continues to grow in fields as diverse as bioinformatics, physics, and remote sensing, the importance of scientific workflows in the design and impl…

cs.DC2022★ 7 cited

SyncMesh: Improving Data Locality for Function-as-a-Service in Meshed Edge Networks

Daniel Habenicht, Kevin Kreutz, Soeren Becker +3

The increasing use of Internet of Things devices coincides with more communication and data movement in networks, which can exceed existing network capabilities. These devices ofte…

cs.DC2021

C3O: Collaborative Cluster Configuration Optimization for Distributed Data Processing in Public Clouds

Jonathan Will, Lauritz Thamsen, Dominik Scheinert +2

Distributed dataflow systems enable data-parallel processing of large datasets on clusters. Public cloud providers offer a large variety and quantity of resources that can be used…