Load Balancing for AI Training Workloads

McClure, Sarah, Ratnasamy, Sylvia, Shenker, Scott

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

We investigate the performance of various load balancing algorithms for large-scale AI training workloads that are running on dedicated infrastructure. The performance of load balancing depends on both the congestion control and loss recovery algorithms, so our evaluation also sheds light on the appropriate choices for those designs as well.