Abstract: Technologies for cross-layer task distribution include a compute device configured to identify pending communication tasks and pending compute tasks, and estimate a processing load of the pending communication tasks. The compute device is further configured to determine a total processing budget of communication processor(s) of the compute device based on computation resources of the communication processor(s) and determine whether excess processing budget is available to process at least one of the pending compute tasks. Additionally, in response to a determination that the excess processing budget is available to process one or more pending compute tasks, the compute device is configured to allocate at least one of the pending compute tasks to be processed by at least one of the communication processors. Other embodiments are described and claimed.