@inproceedings{ma2026demystifyingnvshmem, author={Yijun Ma* and Siyuan Shen* and Tiancheng Chen and Akhil Langer and Jiri Kraus and Benjamin Glick and Craig Belusar and Jeff Hammond and Torsten Hoefler}, title={{Demystifying NVSHMEM: A System-Level Analysis on Symmetric Memory and Device-Initiated Operations in GPU Communication}}, year={2026}, month={Aug.}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HOTI'26)}, }