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+venue: NSDI
+year: 2024
+papers:
+- title: 'MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10, 000 GPUs'
+  authors:
+  - Ziheng Jiang
+  - Haibin Lin
+  - Yinmin Zhong
+  - Qi Huang
+  - Yangrui Chen
+  - Zhi Zhang
+  - Yanghua Peng
+  - Xiang Li 0067
+  - Cong Xie
+  - Shibiao Nong
+  - Yulu Jia
+  - Sun He
+  - Hongmin Chen
+  - Zhihao Bai
+  - Qi Hou
+  - Shipeng Yan
+  - Ding Zhou
+  - Yiyao Sheng
+  - Zhuo Jiang
+  - Haohan Xu
+  - Haoran Wei
+  - Zhang Zhang 0003
+  - Pengfei Nie
+  - Leqi Zou
+  - Sida Zhao
+  - Liang Xiang
+  - Zherui Liu
+  - Zhe Li
+  - Xiaoying Jia 0001
+  - Jianxi Ye
+  - Xin Jin 0008
+  - Xin Liu 0086
+  reason: "ByteDance's full production account of training LLMs at 10,000+ GPUs, with novel co-design of the network stack, fault tolerance, and collective communication to sustain near-linear scaling."
+
+- title: 'Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture'
+  authors:
+  - Saksham Agarwal
+  - Qizhe Cai
+  - Rachit Agarwal 0001
+  - David B. Shmoys
+  - Amin Vahdat
+  reason: "Proposes rethinking datacenter fabrics to eliminate congestion by construction rather than managing it reactively, achieving line-rate throughput without per-packet feedback from Cornell and Google."
+
+- title: 'DINT: Fast In-Kernel Distributed Transactions with eBPF'
+  authors:
+  - Yang Zhou 0008
+  - Xingyu Xiang
+  - Matthew Kiley
+  - Sowmya Dharanipragada
+  - Minlan Yu
+  reason: "Demonstrates that eBPF programs executing entirely inside the kernel can enforce linearizable, ACID-compliant distributed transactions at dramatically lower latency than user-space approaches."
+
+- title: Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud with Junction
+  authors:
+  - Joshua Fried
+  - Gohar Irfan Chaudhry
+  - Enrique Saurez
+  - Esha Choukse
+  - Íñigo Goiri
+  - Sameh Elnikety
+  - Rodrigo Fonseca
+  - Adam Belay
+  reason: "Junction (MIT + Microsoft) is the first system to bring full kernel-bypass networking to multi-tenant cloud VMs without requiring application modifications or sacrificing isolation."
+
+- title: 'SIEVE is Simpler than LRU: an Efficient Turn-Key Eviction Algorithm for Web Caches'
+  authors:
+  - Yazhuo Zhang
+  - Juncheng Yang
+  - Yao Yue
+  - Ymir Vigfusson
+  - K. V. Rashmi
+  reason: "Surprising finding that a single-queue eviction policy requiring almost no state changes outperforms LRU and all modern approximations on production web-cache workloads."
+
+- title: A large-scale deployment of DCTCP
+  authors:
+  - Abhishek Dhamija
+  - Balasubramanian Madhavan
+  - Hechao Li
+  - Jie Meng
+  - Shrikrishna Khare
+  - Madhavi Rao
+  - Lawrence Brakmo
+  - Neil Spring
+  - Prashanth Kannan
+  - Srikanth Sundaresan
+  - Soudeh Ghorbani
+  reason: "A rare, candid production report from Meta on deploying DCTCP at hyperscale, surfacing unexpected interactions with heterogeneous hardware, cross-traffic, and operational constraints."
+
+- title: 'Brain-on-Switch: Towards Advanced Intelligent Network Data Plane via NN-Driven Traffic Analysis at Line-Speed'
+  authors:
+  - Jinzhu Yan
+  - Haotian Xu
+  - Zhuotao Liu
+  - Qi Li 0002
+  - Ke Xu 0002
+  - Mingwei Xu 0001
+  - Jianping Wu
+  reason: "Executes neural-network inference for traffic classification directly in the programmable switch data plane at line rate, eliminating the round-trip to a CPU-based classifier."
+
+- title: 'Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters'
+  authors:
+  - Parham Yassini
+  - Khaled Diab 0001
+  - Saeed Mahloujifar
+  - Mohamed Hefeeda
+  reason: "Offloads microsecond-granularity task scheduling decisions into programmable switches, reducing load-balancing latency by orders of magnitude compared to software schedulers."
+
+- title: 'CAPA: An Architecture For Operating Cluster Networks With High Availability'
+  authors:
+  - Bingzhe Liu
+  - Colin Scott
+  - Mukarram Tariq
+  - Andrew D. Ferguson
+  - Phillipa Gill
+  - Richard Alimi
+  - Omid Alipourfard
+  - Deepak Arulkannan
+  - Virginia Beauregard
+  - Patrick Conner
+  - Philip Brighten Godfrey
+  - Xander Lin
+  - Joon Ong
+  - Mayur Patel
+  - Amr Sabaa
+  - Arjun Singh
+  - Alex Smirnov
+  - Manish Verma
+  - Prerepa V. Viswanadham
+  - Amin Vahdat
+  reason: "Google's production architecture for maintaining five-nines availability in Jupiter-scale cluster networks, detailing how control-plane redundancy and fast failover are achieved in practice."
+
+- title: Revisiting Congestion Control for Lossless Ethernet
+  authors:
+  - Yiran Zhang
+  - Qingkai Meng 0001
+  - Chaolei Hu
+  - Fengyuan Ren
+  reason: "Identifies fundamental flaws in PFC-based lossless Ethernet that cause cascading head-of-line blocking and proposes a redesigned congestion control that avoids them."
+
+- title: 'Sirius: Composing Network Function Chains into P4-Capable Edge Gateways'
+  authors:
+  - Jiaqi Gao
+  - Jiamin Cao
+  - Yifan Li
+  - Mengqi Liu 0001
+  - Ming Tang
+  - Dennis Cai
+  - Ennan Zhai
+  reason: "Alibaba's production system for composing arbitrary NF chains into P4-programmed edge gateways, replacing a fleet of dedicated middleboxes and cutting per-packet processing cost significantly."
+
+- title: 'CASSINI: Network-Aware Job Scheduling in Machine Learning Clusters'
+  authors:
+  - Sudarsanan Rajasekaran
+  - Manya Ghobadi
+  - Aditya Akella
+  reason: "Shows that ignoring network topology when scheduling ML training jobs causes severe collective-communication contention, and that topology-aware co-scheduling yields substantial throughput gains."
+
+- title: 'Cloudcast: High-Throughput, Cost-Aware Overlay Multicast in the Cloud'
+  authors:
+  - Sarah Wooders
+  - Shu Liu
+  - Paras Jain 0001
+  - Xiangxi Mo
+  - Joseph E. Gonzalez
+  - Vincent Liu 0001
+  - Ion Stoica
+  reason: "Berkeley/Penn system that builds overlay multicast trees across cloud regions optimized for egress cost, enabling high-throughput data dissemination at a fraction of unicast cloud egress fees."