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most citedDatacenter Ethernet and RDMA: Issues at Hyperscale

4 citations · 7 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.NI2026

PCM: Programmable Congestion Management for Terabit RDMA NICs

Mikhail Khalilov, Timo Schneider, Tommaso Bonato +10

Datacenter congestion control (CC) and load balancing (LB) evolve rapidly as workload demands change, but deployment depends on RDMA hardware and transport interfaces. Emerging pro…

cs.DC2026

Every Microsecond Matters: Achieving Near Speed-of-Light Latency in GPU Collectives

Siyuan Shen, Anton Korzh, John Bachan +10

GPU collective communication is typically optimized for bandwidth, yet many emerging workloads are increasingly limited by latency. Long-context decode-heavy large language model (…

cs.DC2026

Demystifying NVSHMEM: A System-Level Analysis on Symmetric Memory and Device-Initiated Operations in GPU Communication

Yijun Ma, Siyuan Shen, Tiancheng Chen +6

NVSHMEM is NVIDIA's OpenSHMEM-based PGAS communication library for GPU clusters, enabling GPU-initiated, one-sided communication through symmetric memory. Despite its growing adopt…

cs.PF2025★ 1 cited

EDAN: Towards Understanding Memory Parallelism and Latency Sensitivity in HPC

Siyuan Shen, Mikhail Khalilov, Lukas Gianinazzi +6

Resource disaggregation is a promising technique for improving the efficiency of large-scale computing systems. However, this comes at the cost of increased memory access latency d…

cs.PF2025★ 2 cited

PerfDojo: Automated ML Library Generation for Heterogeneous Architectures

Andrei Ivanov, Siyuan Shen, Gioele Gottardo +5

The increasing complexity of machine learning models and the proliferation of diverse hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) make achieving optimal performance a signifi…

cs.AR2025

RailX: A Flexible, Scalable, and Low-Cost Network Architecture for Hyper-Scale LLM Training Systems

Yinxiao Feng, Tiancheng Chen, Yuchen Wei +5

Increasingly large AI workloads are calling for hyper-scale infrastructure; however, traditional interconnection network architecture is neither scalable nor cost-effective enough.…

cs.DC2025

Demystifying NCCL: An In-depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algorithms

Zhiyi Hu, Siyuan Shen, Tommaso Bonato +6

The NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) is a critical software layer enabling high-performance collectives on large-scale GPU clusters. Despite being open source with a…

cs.DC2025

ATLAHS: An Application-centric Network Simulator Toolchain for AI, HPC, and Distributed Storage

Siyuan Shen, Tommaso Bonato, Zhiyi Hu +3

Network simulators play a crucial role in evaluating the performance of large-scale systems. However, existing simulators rely heavily on synthetic microbenchmarks or narrowly focu…

cs.NI2025

SDR-RDMA: Software-Defined Reliability Architecture for Planetary Scale RDMA Communication

Mikhail Khalilov, Siyuan Shen, Marcin Chrapek +16

RDMA is vital for efficient distributed training across datacenters, but millisecond-scale latencies complicate the design of its reliability layer. We show that depending on long-…

cs.DC2024

LLAMP: Assessing Network Latency Tolerance of HPC Applications with Linear Programming

Siyuan Shen, Langwen Huang, Marcin Chrapek +5

The shift towards high-bandwidth networks driven by AI workloads in data centers and HPC clusters has unintentionally aggravated network latency, adversely affecting the performanc…

cs.NI2023★ 4 cited

Datacenter Ethernet and RDMA: Issues at Hyperscale

Torsten Hoefler, Duncan Roweth, Keith Underwood +9

We observe that emerging artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and storage workloads pose new challenges for large-scale datacenter networking. RDMA over Converged E…