Xianneng Zou

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ReclaimNet: Reclaim-Aware Network Protocols for Voluntary GPU Sharing on Campus

Wenyang Jia, Jingjing Wang, Xianneng Zou et al.

University campuses host abundant but fragmented GPU resources whose voluntary sharing is blocked by a mismatch between revocable, autonomous ownership and migration mechanisms that assume stationary failure hazards, homogeneous interconnects, and unbounded transfer windows. We present ReclaimNet, a network-layer migration protocol suite that treats provider reclaim as a first-class contract rather than a failure case, combining three mechanisms: (i) reclaim-aware checkpoint scheduling that jointly adapts to time-varying departure hazards and contended bandwidth across co-resident jobs; (ii) volatility-aware destination selection integrating topology, survival probability, and notice-window feasibility; and (iii) deadline-aware migration traffic control with edge enforcement and a submillisecond TC BPF kill-switch. A two-month deployment on a 54-node heterogeneous campus testbed reduces work loss by 66% over Slurm preempt-and-requeue and 38% over pipeline-redundancy checkpointing, with 38% shorter downtime and under 3% degradation of background research traffic. The prototype is open-sourced at the anonymous repository https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ICNP2026-ReclaimNet/.