venue: JPDC
year: 2024
selected:
  - title: "Read/write fence-free work-stealing with multiplicity"
    authors:
    - Armando Castañeda
    - Miguel Piña
    tldr: "Presents a work-stealing deque algorithm that eliminates read/write memory fences while tolerating multiplicity, achieving provably correct concurrent access without costly barriers."
    why_notable: "Advances the theoretical foundations of lock-free scheduler data structures by decoupling correctness from fence instructions, directly impacting runtime system design."

  - title: "Reliable communication in dynamic networks with locally bounded byzantine faults"
    authors:
    - Silvia Bonomi
    - Giovanni Farina
    - Sébastien Tixeuil
    tldr: "Characterizes the conditions under which reliable broadcast is achievable in dynamic networks where Byzantine faults are locally bounded rather than globally counted."
    why_notable: "Provides tight impossibility and achievability results for a practically motivated fault model, extending classical Byzantine agreement theory to time-varying topologies."

  - title: "Local certification of graph decompositions and applications to minor-free classes"
    authors:
    - Nicolas Bousquet 0001
    - Laurent Feuilloley
    - Théo Pierron
    tldr: "Develops local distributed certification schemes for graph decompositions, proving tight certificate-size bounds for minor-free graph families."
    why_notable: "Connects structural graph theory to distributed verification, giving new tools for designing space-efficient proof-labeling schemes in anonymous networks."

  - title: "Eventually lattice-linear algorithms"
    authors:
    - Arya Tanmay Gupta
    - Sandeep S. Kulkarni
    tldr: "Introduces the eventually lattice-linear class of distributed algorithms that converge to a lattice-linear fixed point, enabling new self-stabilization constructions."
    why_notable: "Unifies several stabilizing algorithm families under a clean algebraic framework that simplifies correctness proofs and inspires new design patterns."

  - title: "Construction algorithms of fault-tolerant paths and disjoint paths in k-ary n-cube networks"
    authors:
    - Mengjie Lv
    - Jianxi Fan
    - Baolei Cheng
    - Jia Yu 0003
    - Xiaohua Jia
    tldr: "Proposes efficient algorithms to construct maximally fault-tolerant Hamiltonian paths and node-disjoint paths in k-ary n-cube interconnection networks under edge and vertex failures."
    why_notable: "Yields concrete routing strategies for torus-based HPC fabrics that remain functional under high fault counts, with tight proofs of optimality."

  - title: "MapReduce algorithms for robust center-based clustering in doubling metrics"
    authors:
    - Enrico Dandolo
    - Alessio Mazzetto
    - Andrea Pietracaprina
    - Geppino Pucci
    tldr: "Designs MapReduce algorithms for k-median and k-means clustering with provable approximation ratios that are robust to outliers in doubling metric spaces."
    why_notable: "Delivers the first round-efficient MapReduce clustering algorithms with simultaneous robustness and approximation guarantees grounded in metric space theory."

  - title: "DuMato: An efficient warp-centric subgraph enumeration system for GPU"
    authors:
    - Samuel Ferraz
    - Vinícius Vitor dos Santos Dias
    - Carlos H. C. Teixeira
    - Srinivasan Parthasarathy 0001
    - George Teodoro
    - Wagner Meira Jr.
    tldr: "Presents a warp-centric GPU programming model for subgraph enumeration that eliminates load imbalance through dynamic work redistribution across warps."
    why_notable: "Achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups over CPU baselines on graph pattern mining by rethinking how irregular workloads are mapped onto SIMT hardware."

  - title: "An efficient sequential consistency implementation with dynamic race detection for GPUs"
    authors:
    - Abdulaziz Tabbakh
    - Murali Annavaram
    tldr: "Implements sequential consistency on GPUs via a dynamic race detector that inserts fences only where data races are actually detected at runtime."
    why_notable: "Shows that strong memory model guarantees on GPUs need not incur pervasive overhead, opening a path toward safer GPU programming models without sacrificing performance."

  - title: "General-purpose data stream processing on heterogeneous architectures with WindFlow"
    authors:
    - Gabriele Mencagli
    - Massimo Torquati
    - Dalvan Griebler
    - Alessandra Fais
    - Marco Danelutto
    tldr: "Extends the WindFlow library with a unified programming model and runtime that transparently targets CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs for streaming dataflow applications."
    why_notable: "Demonstrates practical performance portability for stream processing across radically different hardware, with a clean operator model grounded in parallel patterns theory."

  - title: "Revisiting I/O bandwidth-sharing strategies for HPC applications"
    authors:
    - Anne Benoit
    - Thomas Hérault
    - Lucas Perotin
    - Yves Robert
    - Frédéric Vivien
    tldr: "Analyzes optimal I/O bandwidth allocation policies for HPC checkpointing and data-intensive applications under shared storage systems, deriving scheduling algorithms with provable performance bounds."
    why_notable: "Provides theoretically grounded guidance for I/O resource management at scale, a pervasive bottleneck in modern HPC deployments."

  - title: "Scalable atomic broadcast: A leaderless hierarchical algorithm"
    authors:
    - Lucas V. Ruchel
    - Edson Tavares de Camargo
    - Luiz Antonio Rodrigues
    - Rogério C. Turchetti
    - Luciana Arantes
    - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr.
    tldr: "Proposes a leaderless hierarchical atomic broadcast protocol that eliminates single-leader bottlenecks and scales to large distributed systems with reduced message complexity."
    why_notable: "Advances Byzantine-fault-tolerant broadcast by removing the leader as a scalability and availability bottleneck while preserving total-order guarantees."

  - title: "Stab-FD: A cooperative and adaptive failure detector for wide area networks"
    authors:
    - Pierre Sens 0001
    - Luciana Arantes
    - Anubis Graciela de Moraes Rossetto
    - Olivier Marin
    tldr: "Presents a stabilizing failure detector that cooperatively adapts its timeout parameters across WAN nodes to achieve eventual accuracy under varying latencies."
    why_notable: "Tackles the long-standing challenge of practical failure detection in geo-distributed systems with a rigorous self-stabilizing design that avoids static parameter tuning."