Terastal reduces deadline miss rate by 40.58% vs FCFS, 30.53% vs EDF, and 36.27% vs DREAM?

Terastal reduces deadline miss rate by 40.58% vs FCFS, 30.53% vs EDF, and 36.27% vs DREAM

Uses 'layer variants' — custom layer implementations that trade up to 2.24% accuracy for lower latency on non-preferred accelerators?

Uses 'layer variants' — custom layer implementations that trade up to 2.24% accuracy for lower latency on non-preferred accelerators

Combines offline virtual budget assignment with online scheduling for joint accelerator-mapping and variant selection

Research & Papers

arXiv cs.DC June 08, 2026

⚡New scheduling algorithm reduces missed deadlines by 40.58% while keeping accuracy loss under 2.24%

Deep Dive

Terastal is a soft real-time framework for scheduling multiple DNNs on heterogeneous accelerators. It uses "

Key Points

Terastal reduces deadline miss rate by 40.58% vs FCFS, 30.53% vs EDF, and 36.27% vs DREAM
Uses 'layer variants' — custom layer implementations that trade up to 2.24% accuracy for lower latency on non-preferred accelerators
Combines offline virtual budget assignment with online scheduling for joint accelerator-mapping and variant selection

Enables real-time multi-DNN workloads on edge devices with tighter deadlines and minimal accuracy loss.