Fault-tolerant Reduce and Allreduce operations based on correction

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Authors: Martin Küttler, Hermann Haertig
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Abstract

Implementations of Broadcast based on some information dissemination algorithm -- e.g., gossip or tree-based communication -- followed by a correction algorithm has been proposed previously. This work describes an approach to apply a similar idea to Reduce. In it, a correction-like communication phase precedes a tree-based phase. This provides a Reduce algorithm which is tolerant to a number of failed processes. Semantics of the resulting algorithm are provided and proven. Based on these results, Broadcast and Reduce are combined to provide Allreduce.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Distributed systems and fault tolerance Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
25 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint