GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Faster and Cheaper Prototyping and Evaluation of Deep Learning System Research

Summary: GPEmu: a GPU emulator enabling DL systems prototyping/evaluation without real GPUs via time emulation, memory emulation, distributed execution and sharing support. Scales to 30+ models and 6 GPU configs, reproduces 9 papers' results and speeds micro-optimization prototyping. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13848
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,580 | 26.40%
DOI: 10.14778/3725688.3725716

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
411	PyTorch Distributed: Experiences on Accelerating Data Parallel Training	2020	VLDB	0.00023906921
1,504	Analyzing and Mitigating Data Stalls in DNN Training	2021	VLDB	0.00011642333
2,170	tf.data: A Machine Learning Data Processing Framework	2021	VLDB	9.3821603e-05
2,688	Accelerating Recommendation System Training by Leveraging Popular Choices	2022	VLDB	8.2991144e-05
2,902	PyTorch FSDP: Experiences on Scaling Fully Sharded Data Parallel	2023	VLDB	7.93939e-05
4,180	FastFlow: Accelerating Deep Learning Model Training with Smart Offloading of Input Data Pipeline	2023	VLDB	6.3793352e-05
5,084	In-Database Machine Learning with CorgiPile: Stochastic Gradient Descent without Full Data Shuffle	2022	SIGMOD	5.7091191e-05
5,552	GoldMiner: Elastic Scaling of Training Data Pre-Processing Pipelines for Deep Learning	2023	SIGMOD	5.4402488e-05

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