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+title: IPDPS 2024 Digest
+venue: IPDPS
+year: 2024
+date: '2024-01-01'
+tags: []
+paper_count: 14
+draft: false
+---
+
+14 papers selected.
+
+---
+
+### Low-Depth Spatial Tree Algorithms
+
+*Yves Baumann, Tal Ben-Nun, Maciej Besta, Lukas Gianinazzi *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Introduces parallel spatial-tree algorithms with provably low depth, advancing the theory of work-efficient parallel data structures for geometric workloads.
+
+---
+
+### Alternative Basis Matrix Multiplication is Fast and Stable
+
+*Oded Schwartz, Sivan Toledo, Noa Vaknin, Gal Wiernik*
+
+**TL;DR** — Demonstrates that alternative-basis matrix multiplication achieves both practical speed and numerical stability, challenging the conventional trade-off between the two.
+
+---
+
+### Wait-free Trees with Asymptotically-Efficient Range Queries
+
+*Ilya Kokorin, Victor Yudov, Vitaly Aksenov, Dan Alistarh*
+
+**TL;DR** — Presents the first wait-free balanced search tree supporting asymptotically optimal range queries, a long-standing open problem in concurrent data structures.
+
+---
+
+### Parallel Derandomization for Coloring
+
+*Sam Coy, Artur Czumaj, Peter Davies-Peck, Gopinath Mishra*
+
+**TL;DR** — Develops deterministic parallel graph-coloring algorithms via derandomization, closing a key gap between randomized and deterministic complexity in this foundational problem.
+
+---
+
+### HINT: Designing Cache-Efficient MPI_Alltoall using Hybrid Memory Copy Ordering and Non-Temporal Instructions
+
+*Bharath Ramesh 0005, Nick Contini, Nawras Alnaasan, Kaushik Kandadi Suresh *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Achieves substantial MPI_Alltoall bandwidth improvements by combining cache-aware copy ordering with non-temporal store instructions, directly benefiting large-scale collective communication.
+
+---
+
+### An Optimized Error-controlled MPI Collective Framework Integrated with Lossy Compression
+
+*Jiajun Huang 0001, Sheng Di, Xiaodong Yu 0001, Yujia Zhai *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Integrates error-bounded lossy compression directly into MPI collectives, reducing communication volume with provable accuracy guarantees for HPC scientific applications.
+
+---
+
+### Software Resource Disaggregation for HPC with Serverless Computing
+
+*Marcin Copik, Marcin Chrapek, Larissa Schmid, Alexandru Calotoiu *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Shows that serverless computing can serve as a practical resource-disaggregation layer for HPC, enabling fine-grained elasticity without sacrificing performance.
+
+---
+
+### Tackling Cold Start in Serverless Computing with Multi-Level Container Reuse
+
+*Amelie Chi Zhou, Rongzheng Huang, Zhoubin Ke, Yusen Li *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Proposes a multi-level container-reuse strategy that significantly reduces cold-start latency in serverless platforms, addressing one of the main performance bottlenecks.
+
+---
+
+### LightDAG: A Low-latency DAG-based BFT Consensus through Lightweight Broadcast
+
+*Xiaohai Dai, Guanxiong Wang, Jiang Xiao 0001, Zhengxuan Guo *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Redesigns DAG-based Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus to use lightweight broadcast, cutting latency while preserving safety and liveness in distributed systems.
+
+---
+
+### Benchmarking and Dissecting the Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture
+
+*Weile Luo, Ruibo Fan, Zeyu Li, Dayou Du *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Provides the first systematic microbenchmark characterization of Hopper's new hardware features (TMA, warpgroup MMA, NVLink-4), yielding actionable insights for kernel developers.
+
+---
+
+### DEFCON: Deformable Convolutions Leveraging Interval Search and GPU Texture Hardware
+
+*Malith Jayaweera, Yanyu Li, Yanzhi Wang 0001, Bin Ren 0002 *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Exploits GPU texture-cache hardware to accelerate deformable convolutions, delivering significant speedups over cuDNN-based baselines for irregular memory-access patterns.
+
+---
+
+### nOS-V: Co-Executing HPC Applications Using System-Wide Task Scheduling
+
+*David Álvarez 0006, Kevin Sala, Vicenç Beltran 0001*
+
+**TL;DR** — Introduces a system-wide task scheduler that safely co-executes multiple HPC applications on shared hardware, improving cluster utilization without modifying application code.
+
+---
+
+### Hadar: Heterogeneity-Aware Optimization-Based Online Scheduling for Deep Learning Cluster
+
+*Abeda Sultana, Fei Xu, Xu Yuan 0001, Li Chen 0019 *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Formulates deep-learning cluster scheduling as an online optimization problem that explicitly accounts for GPU heterogeneity, reducing job completion times and improving fairness.
+
+---
+
+### A Parallel Partial Merge Repair Algorithm for Multi-block Failures for Erasure Storage Systems
+
+*Shuaipeng Zhang, Shiyi Li, Chentao Wu, Ruobin Wu *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Presents a parallel repair algorithm for simultaneous multi-block erasure failures that outperforms sequential recovery while reducing I/O and computational overhead.
+