ZCCL Project

Publications

Selected work in high-performance compression, communication, and their co-design for AI and scientific workloads.

Selected Compression and Communication Publications

  • 01
    Compression

    FSZ: Breaking the Prediction-Throughput Trade-off in GPU Lossy Compression

    Jiajun Huang

    in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2026 (Best Paper Nomination)

    This work advances GPU lossy compression by pairing high prediction capability with extreme throughput.

  • 02
    Compression + communication

    hZCCL2: Co-Designing Collective Communication with Vectorized Homomorphic Compression

    Jiefeng Zhou, Sheng Di, Yanfei Guo, Yuhao Guo, Linqi Zhang, Kai Zhao, Rajeev Thakur, Franck Cappello, and Jiajun Huang

    in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2026

    This paper co-designs vectorized homomorphic compression with collective communication.

  • 03
    Compression + communication

    ghZCCL: Advancing GPU-aware Collective Communications with Homomorphic Compression

    Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Yafan Huang, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello, Yanfei Guo, and Rajeev Thakur

    in Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, 2025

    This paper is the first co-design of GPU-centric homomorphic compression with collective communications.

  • 04
    Compression + communication

    hZCCL: Accelerating Collective Communication with Co-designed Homomorphic Compression

    Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Xiaodong Yu, Yujia Zhai, Jinyang Liu, Zizhe Jian, Xin Liang, Kai Zhao, Xiaoyi Lu, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello, Yanfei Guo, and Rajeev Thakur

    in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2024

    This paper is the first co-design of homomorphic compression and communications.

  • 05
    Compression + communication

    ZCCL: Significantly Improving Collective Communication With Error-Bounded Lossy Compression

    Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Xiaodong Yu, Yujia Zhai, Zhaorui Zhang, Jinyang Liu, Xiaoyi Lu, Ken Raffenetti, Hui Zhou, Kai Zhao, Khalid Alharthi, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello, Yanfei Guo, and Rajeev Thakur

    arXiv, 2024

    This paper is the journal extension of the IPDPS 2024 paper.

  • 06
    Compression + communication

    gZCCL: Compression-Accelerated Collective Communication Framework for GPU Clusters

    Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Xiaodong Yu, Yujia Zhai, Jinyang Liu, Yafan Huang, Ken Raffenetti, Hui Zhou, Kai Zhao, Xiaoyi Lu, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello, Yanfei Guo, and Rajeev Thakur

    in Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, 2024

    This paper details the first GPU-aware compression-accelerated collective communications library.

  • 07
    Compression + communication

    An Optimized Error-controlled MPI Collective Framework Integrated with Lossy Compression

    Jiajun Huang, Sheng Di, Xiaodong Yu, Yujia Zhai, Zhaorui Zhang, Jinyang Liu, Xiaoyi Lu, Ken Raffenetti, Hui Zhou, Kai Zhao, Zizhong Chen, Franck Cappello, Yanfei Guo, and Rajeev Thakur

    38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2024

    This conference paper is the starting point of the ZCCL family.