NCCLZ decouples quantization and entropy coding across NCCL stack layers to enable overlapped compression, delivering up to 9.65x speedup over plain NCCL on scientific and training workloads.
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NCCLZ: Compression-Enabled GPU Collectives with Decoupled Quantization and Entropy Coding
NCCLZ decouples quantization and entropy coding across NCCL stack layers to enable overlapped compression, delivering up to 9.65x speedup over plain NCCL on scientific and training workloads.
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SCENIC: Stream Computation-Enhanced SmartNIC
SCENIC delivers a programmable 200G SmartNIC with offloaded protocol stacks, stream compute units, and full OS transparency that matches commercial performance for custom offloads like collective communication and GPU data partitioning.