PPoPP 2026
Sat 31 January - Wed 4 February 2026 Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026
Tue 3 Feb 2026 12:10 - 12:30 at Pyrmont - Cluster and Cloud Computing Chair(s): Ruslan Nikolaev

The growing demand for GPU resources has led to widespread shortages in data centers, prompting the exploration of CPUs as an alternative for executing GPU programs. While prior research supports executing GPU programs on single CPUs, these approaches struggle to achieve competitive performance due to the computational capacity gap between GPUs and CPUs.

To further improve performance, we introduce CuCC, a framework that scales GPU-to-CPU migration to CPU clusters and utilizes distributed CPU nodes to execute GPU programs. Compared to single-CPU execution, CPU cluster execution requires cross-node communication to maintain data consistency. We present the CuCC execution workflow and communication optimizations, which aim to reduce network overhead. Evaluations demonstrate that CuCC achieves high scalability on large-scale CPU clusters and delivers runtimes approaching those of GPUs. In terms of cluster-wide throughput, CuCC enables CPUs to achieve an average of 2.59x higher throughput than GPUs.

Tue 3 Feb

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:30 - 12:50
Cluster and Cloud ComputingMain Conference at Pyrmont
Chair(s): Ruslan Nikolaev Pennsylvania State University
11:30
20m
Talk
Cacheman: A Comprehensive Last-Level Cache Management System for Multi-tenant Clouds
Main Conference
Xiaokang Hu Alibaba Cloud Computing, Yuchao Cao Alibaba Cloud Computing, Naixuan Guan Alibaba Cloud Computing, Yifan Wu Alibaba Cloud Computing, Xishi Qiu Alibaba Cloud Computing, Shengdong Dai Alibaba Cloud Computing, Ben Luo Alibaba Cloud Computing, Sanchuan Cheng Alibaba Cloud Computing, Fudong Qiu Alibaba Cloud Computing, Yibin Shen Alibaba Cloud, Jiesheng Wu Alibaba Cloud Computing
DOI
11:50
20m
Talk
zBuffer: Zero-Copy and Metadata-Free Serialization for Fast RPC with Scatter-Gather Reflection
Main Conference
Xiangyu Liu Xiamen University, Huiba Li Alibaba, Shun Gai Alibaba, Youmin Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yiming Zhang Xiamen University
DOI
12:10
20m
Talk
Scaling GPU-to-CPU Migration for Efficient Distributed Execution on CPU Clusters
Main Conference
Ruobing Han Georgia Institute of Technology, Hyesoon Kim Georgia Institute of Technology
DOI
12:30
20m
Talk
Trojan Horse: Aggregate-and-Batch for Scaling Up Sparse Direct Solvers on GPU ClustersBest Paper Nominee
Main Conference
Yida Li China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Siwei Zhang China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Yiduo Niu China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Yang Du China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Qingxiao Sun China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Zhou Jin China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Weifeng Liu China University of Petroleum-Beijing
DOI