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Jinlei Jiang

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TENT: A Declarative Slice Spraying Engine for Performant and Resilient Data Movement in Disaggregated LLM Serving

Modern GPU clusters rely on complex, heterogeneous interconnects. As large language model (LLM) serving shifts toward agentic reasoning, KVCache becomes a first-class mobile asset, driving frequent migrations and massive elephant flows that dominate the execution critical path. Operating Mooncake Transfer Engine (TE) on thousands of GPUs exposed a fundamental flaw in existing frameworks: imperative, early-binding path selection. This rigidity results in state-blind striping that ignores congestion and grey failures, leading to bandwidth stranding. This also produces operational fragility where routine faults require manual intervention. We present TENT, a declarative orchestration engine that decouples transfer intent from physical execution. By abstracting interconnects into a unified resource pool, TENT shifts path resolution from initialization to slice-time late binding. Applications simply declare transfer intents, while TENT dynamically "sprays" fine-grained slices across rails based on real-time telemetry and predictive cost modeling. This orchestration eliminates head-of-line (HoL) blocking and enables transparent, sub-50 ms self-healing by rerouting slices around failures or degradations without application-level intervention. TENT serves as the production data plane for LLM inference and reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines at multiple industrial clusters. Our evaluation shows that TE+ outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including Mooncake TE, NIXL, and UCCL. In LLM inference with SGLang HiCache, TE+ achieves up to 1.36x higher throughput and 26% lower P90 time-to-first-token (TTFT) than Mooncake TE. In RL pipelines, TENT accelerates parameter updates in Moonshot Checkpoint Engine by 20-26%.

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TrEnv-X: Transparently Share Serverless Execution Environments Across Different Functions and Nodes

Serverless computing is renowned for its computation elasticity, yet its full potential is often constrained by the requirement for functions to operate within local and dedicated background environments, resulting in limited memory elasticity. To address this limitation, this paper introduces TrEnv-X, a co-designed integration of the serverless platform with the operating system and CXL/RDMA-based remote memory pools. TrEnv-X's core innovations are repurposable sandboxes, which can be shared across different functions to decrease the associated creation overhead, and OS-level memory templates, which enable rapid state restoration from CXL/RDMA-based remote memory pools. To further demonstrate TrEnv-X's versatility, we generalize its design from traditional containers for microVM-based agent workloads and introduce new optimizations, including browser sharing and a page cache bypassing mechanism. Our evaluation shows that TrEnv-X achieves up to 7x reduction in P99 latency and 48% memory savings for container-based functions. When applied to LLM agents, it reduces the P99 latency by up to 58% and memory usage by 61% compared to state-of-the-art systems like E2B.

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Efficient Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Achieving: Low Latency Without Throughput Loss

The increase in the dimensionality of neural embedding models has enhanced the accuracy of semantic search capabilities but also amplified the computational demands for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searches (ANNS). This complexity poses significant challenges in online and interactive services, where query latency is a critical performance metric. Traditional graph-based ANNS methods, while effective for managing large datasets, often experience substantial throughput reductions when scaled for intra-query parallelism to minimize latency. This reduction is largely due to inherent inefficiencies in the conventional fork-join parallelism model. To address this problem, we introduce AverSearch, a novel parallel graph-based ANNS framework that overcomes these limitations through a fully asynchronous architecture. Unlike existing frameworks that struggle with balancing latency and throughput, AverSearch utilizes a dynamic workload balancing mechanism that supports continuous, dependency-free processing. This approach not only minimizes latency by eliminating unnecessary synchronization and redundant vertex processing but also maintains high throughput levels. Our evaluations across various datasets, including both traditional benchmarks and modern large-scale model generated datasets, show that AverSearch consistently outperforms current state-of-the-art systems. It achieves up to 2.1-8.9 times higher throughput at comparable latency levels across different datasets and reduces minimum latency by 1.5 to 1.9 times.

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Efficient Heterogeneous Large Language Model Decoding with Model-Attention Disaggregation

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance in generative tasks but also introduce significant challenges in real-world serving due to inefficient use of the expensive, computation-optimized accelerators. Although disaggregated serving architectures have been proposed to split different phases of LLM inference, the efficiency of decoding phase is still low. This is caused by the varying resource demands of different operators in the transformer-based LLMs. Specifically, the attention operator is memory-intensive, exhibiting a memory access pattern that clashes with the strengths of modern accelerators, especially for long context requests. To enhance the efficiency of LLM decoding, we introduce model-attention disaggregation. This approach leverages a collection of cheap, memory-optimized devices for the attention operator while still utilizing high-end accelerators for other parts of the model. This heterogeneous setup ensures that each component is tailored to its specific workload, maximizing overall performance and cost efficiency. Our comprehensive analysis and experiments confirm the viability of splitting the attention computation over multiple devices. Also, the communication bandwidth required between heterogeneous devices proves to be manageable with prevalent networking technologies. To further validate our theory, we develop and deploy Lamina, an LLM inference system that incorporates model-attention disaggregation in a distributed heterogeneous cluster. Experimental results indicate that Lamina can provide 16.1 ~ 90.1% higher estimated throughput than existing solutions with similar costs.

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swCaffe: a Parallel Framework for Accelerating Deep Learning Applications on Sunway TaihuLight

This paper reports our efforts on swCaffe, a highly efficient parallel framework for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) training on Sunway TaihuLight, the current fastest supercomputer in the world that adopts a unique many-core heterogeneous architecture, with 40,960 SW26010 processors connected through a customized communication network. First, we point out some insightful principles to fully exploit the performance of the innovative many-core architecture. Second, we propose a set of optimization strategies for redesigning a variety of neural network layers based on Caffe. Third, we put forward a topology-aware parameter synchronization scheme to scale the synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) method to multiple processors efficiently. We evaluate our framework by training a variety of widely used neural networks with the ImageNet dataset. On a single node, swCaffe can achieve 23\%\~{}119\% overall performance compared with Caffe running on K40m GPU. As compared with the Caffe on CPU, swCaffe runs 3.04\~{}7.84x faster on all the networks. Finally, we present the scalability of swCaffe for the training of ResNet-50 and AlexNet on the scale of 1024 nodes.

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