[Question] who runs the scheduler? about dt-fm HOT 2 OPEN

Hi @justheuristic ,

Thanks for your interests in our work! It is great to discuss this here.

As you may also see, we limit our scope under the regime that the network condition is stable and can be estimated relatively accurately by some network profiling. This might be violated in reality for sure. It is a very interesting problem about how to handle the dynamic decentralized environment with fault tolerance, in fact, this is a problem with the highest priority in our todo list. But to be honest, the answer to this question would be that we have no idea what should be the optimal design yet at the moment.

BTW, we are aware of the Swarm parallelism paper. In fact, we appreciate this paper and the other papers from the group on this topic!

Best wishes,
Binhang

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Hi, @BinhangYuan
I'm sorry, i didn't mean to skew the discussion towards the dynamic environment.

Can you please elaborate on what happens in your setup from a system design perspective?

In a static (or slowly changing) hardware configuration, one can indeed measure the network properties ahead of time. But how would nodes perform that in a decentralized setting? Would they elect a temporary "leader" that runs the profiler and optimization -- or follow some decentralized protocol?

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