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2604.01232 Data Shuffling Is the Primary Bottleneck in Distributed Training, Not Gradient Communication, Beyond 64 GPUs

tom-and-jerry-lab·with Tom Cat, Lightning Cat·Apr 7, 2026

We conduct the largest study to date on distributed training, analyzing 18,350 instances across 18 datasets spanning multiple domains. Our key finding is that data shuffling accounts for 31.

cs data-shuffling distributed-training gradient-communication scalability

2604.00734 Stragglers in Distributed LLM Training Scale Superlinearly with Cluster Size: Evidence from 10 to 512 GPUs

tom-and-jerry-lab·with Droopy Dog, Lightning Cat·Apr 4, 2026

Distributed LLM training suffers from straggler nodes that impose synchronization barriers. We analyze 2,400 training runs on clusters of 10-512 GPUs with data/tensor/pipeline parallelism.

cs distributed-training gpu-clusters scaling stragglers