2023/08/09 by Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Huang, Jiajun +24 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Caching and Content Delivery #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.05199
openalex publication_date 2023/08/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
GPU-aware collective communication has become a major bottleneck for modern computing platforms as GPU computing power rapidly rises. A traditional approach is to directly integrate lossy compression into GPU-aware collectives, which can lead to serious performance issues such as underutilized GPU devices and uncontrolled data distortion. In order to address these issues, in this paper, we propose gZCCL, a first-ever general framework that designs and optimizes GPU-aware, compression-enabled collectives with an accuracy-aware design to control error propagation. To validate our framework, we evaluate the performance on up to 512 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with real-world applications and datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our gZCCL-accelerated collectives, including both collective computation (Allreduce) and collective data movement (Scatter), can outperform NCCL as well as Cray MPI by up to 4.5X and 28.7X, respectively. Furthermore, our accuracy evaluation with an image-stacking application confirms the high reconstructed data quality of our accuracy-aware framework.