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Workload consolidation, sharing physical resources among multiple workloads, is a promising technique to save cost and energy in cluster computing systems. This paper highlights a few challenges of workload consolidation for Hadoop as one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Reza Moraveji , Javid Taheri , MohammadReza HosseinyFarahabady , Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Albert Y. Zomaya

Typically, serverless functions rely on remote storage services for managing state, which can result in increased latency and network communication overhead. In a dynamic environment such as the 3D (Edge-Cloud-Space) Compute Continuum,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Cynthia Marcelino , Leonard Guelmino , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

This paper designs and implements a high availability clusters and incorporated with load balance infrastructure of web servers. The paper described system can provide full facilities to the website hosting provider and large business…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 A B M Moniruzzaman , Md. Waliullah , Md. Sadekur Rahman

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies disrupt a wide range of industries, cloud datacenters face ever-increasing demand in inference workloads. However, conventional CPU-based servers cannot handle excessive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jung-Hoon Kim , Sungyeob Yoo , Seungjae Moon , Joo-Young Kim

Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Dong Wang

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

Currently, Burst buffer has been proposed to manage the SSD buffering of bursty write requests. Although burst buffer can improve I/O performance in many cases, we find that it has some limitations such as requiring large SSD capacity and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Xuanhua Shi , Wei Liu , Ligang He , Hai Jin , Ming Li , Yong Chen

In Cloud computing environment the resources are managed dynamically based on the need and demand for resources for a particular task. With a lot of challenges to be addressed our concern is Load balancing where load balancing is done for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Shahrulniza Musa , Muhammad Alam , Mazliham Mohd Su'ud

SSDs are emerging storage devices which unlike HDDs, do not have mechanical parts and therefore, have superior performance compared to HDDs. Due to the high cost of SSDs, entirely replacing HDDs with SSDs is not economically justified.…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Reza Salkhordeh , Mostafa Hadizadeh , Hossein Asadi

A fundamental challenge in large-scale cloud networks and data centers is to achieve highly efficient server utilization and limit energy consumption, while providing excellent user-perceived performance in the presence of uncertain and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Debankur Mukherjee , Souvik Dhara , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

A growing number of critical workflow applications leverage a streamlined edge-hub-cloud architecture, which diverges from the conventional edge computing paradigm. An edge device, in collaboration with a hub device and a cloud server,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

Nowadays, more and more increasingly hard computations are performed in challenging fields like weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration, and cryptanalysis. Many of such computations can be implemented using a computer cluster with a…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Freek van den Berg , Björn F. Postema , Boudewijn R. Haverkort

We consider a large-scale service system where incoming tasks have to be instantaneously dispatched to one out of many parallel server pools. The user-perceived performance degrades with the number of concurrent tasks and the dispatcher…

The Cloud Computing paradigm consists in providing customers with virtual services of the quality which meets customers' requirements. A cloud service operator is interested in using his infrastructure in the most efficient way while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Thomas Carli , Stéphane Henriot , Johanne Cohen , Joanna Tomasik

Cloud platforms are increasingly relied upon to host diverse, resource-intensive workloads due to their scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. In multi-tenant cloud environments, virtual machines are consolidated on shared physical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Amirhossein Shahbazinia , Darong Huang , Luis Costero , David Atienza

The emerging edge-hub-cloud paradigm has enabled the development of innovative latency-critical cyber-physical applications in the edge-cloud continuum. However, this paradigm poses multiple challenges due to the heterogeneity of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

Software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined flash (SDF) have been serving as the backbone of modern data centers. They are managed separately to handle I/O requests. At first glance, this is a reasonable design by following the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Benjamin Reidys , Yuqi Xue , Daixuan Li , Bharat Sukhwani , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen , Sameh Asaad , Jian Huang

This paper presents a strategy to allocate services on a Cloud system without overloading nodes and maintaining the system stability with minimum cost. We specify an abstract model of cloud resources utilization, including multiple types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Leszek Sliwko , Vladimir Getov