Characterizing Software Aging in GPU-Based LLM Serving Systems

Domenico Cotroneo, Bojan Cukic 2026-06-14

The paper addresses the problem of software aging in GPU-based LLM serving systems, which differ from traditional CPU-centric systems due to heterogeneous hardware and highly variable workloads. The method involves a 216-hour empirical campaign across six co-located deployments with identical stress, monitoring host, device, and client metrics and applying a statistical pipeline for autocorrelation and multiple testing. Experimental evidence shows statistically significant memory aging in all deployments, with leak rates strongly dependent on the serving runtime and configuration. This matters because it provides a reproducible framework bridging software aging and rejuvenation research with LLM serving, enabling future mitigation strategies.

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Work Stealing for the 2D-Mesh Topology of Satellite Constellations in Low Earth Orbit

Mia Reitz, Dorian Chenet, Jonas Posner 2026-06-14

The problem is that existing Asynchronous Many-Task (AMT) runtimes assume a fully connected network with low, uniform latency, which is invalid for satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) that communicate via a sparse mesh topology. The method proposes a neighbor-only work stealing strategy where workers steal exclusively from directly connected neighbors to avoid multi-hop communication. Experimental evidence on an HPC cluster with an emulated mesh shows the neighbor-only strategy performs within ~2.2% of global stealing on both balanced and irregular workloads, and an analytical model indicates a growing latency advantage with constellation size. This matters because it demonstrates that neighbor-only stealing can match global stealing performance in emulated settings, suggesting it is a viable and potentially preferable approach for adapting AMT to Space Edge Computing (SEC) at scale.

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