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With the rapid growth of the cloud computing marketplace, the issue of pricing resources in the cloud has been the subject of much study in recent years. In this paper, we identify and study a new issue: how to price resources in the cloud…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Kamal Jain , Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

Integrating GPUs into serverless computing platforms is crucial for improving efficiency. However, existing solutions for GPU-enabled serverless computing platforms face two significant problems due to coarse-grained GPU management: long…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Han Zhao , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Shulai Zhang , Zijun Li , Jingwen Leng , Chao Li , Deze Zeng , Minyi Guo

Serverless computing has seen a myriad of work exploring its potential. Some systems tackle Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) properties on automatic elasticity and scale to run highly-parallel computing jobs. However, they focus on specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Pedro García-López

In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nakhat Syeda , Harsh Shah , Rajvinder Singh , Suraj Jaju , Sumedha Kumar , Gourav Chhabra , Maria Spichkova

The field of distributed machine learning (ML) faces increasing demands for scalable and cost-effective training solutions, particularly in the context of large, complex models. Serverless computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

Automatic network management strategies have become paramount for meeting the needs of innovative real-time and data-intensive applications, such as in the Internet of Things. However, meeting the ever-growing and fluctuating demands for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Fatemeh Banaie , Karim Djemame , Abdulaziz Alhindi , Vasilios Kelefouras

We study the problem of optimizing data storage and access costs on the cloud while ensuring that the desired performance or latency is unaffected. We first propose an optimizer that optimizes the data placement tier (on the cloud) and the…

Serverless technologies, also known as FaaS (Function as a Service), are promoted as solutions that provide dynamic scalability, speed of development, cost-per-consumption model, and the ability to focus on the code while taking attention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Juan Mera Menéndez , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo , Enrique Riesgo Canal , Aitor Echevarría Fernández

Prediction serving systems are designed to provide large volumes of low-latency inferences machine learning models. These systems mix data processing and computationally intensive model inference and benefit from multiple heterogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Vikram Sreekanti , Harikaran Subbaraj , Chenggang Wu , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Virtual machine (VM) scheduling is an important technique to efficiently operate the computing resources in a data center. Previous work has mainly focused on consolidating VMs to improve resource utilization and thus to optimize energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Lin Wang , Songlin Hu , Biyu Zhou , Zhiyong Liu

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas

In this paper, we intend to reduce the operational cost of cloud data centers with the help of fog devices, which can avoid the revenue loss due to wide-area network propagation delay and save network bandwidth cost by serving nearby cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Liang Yu , Tao Jiang , Yulong Zou

Nowadays IoT applications consist of a collection of loosely coupled modules, namely microservices, that can be managed and placed in a heterogeneous environment consisting of private and public resources. It follows that distributing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Valentino Armani , Francescomaria Faticanti , Silvio Cretti , Seungwoo Kum , Domenico Siracusa

This paper explores a prevailing trend in the industry: migrating data-intensive analytics applications from on-premises to cloud-native environments. We find that the unique cost models associated with cloud-based storage necessitate a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Chunxu Tang , Yi Wang , Bin Fan , Beinan Wang , Shouwei Chen , Ziyue Qiu , Chen Liang , Jing Zhao , Yu Zhu , Mingmin Chen , Zhongting Hu

The essence of distributed computing systems is how to schedule incoming requests and how to allocate all computing nodes to minimize both time and computation costs. In this paper, we propose a cost-aware optimal scheduling and allocation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Ren , Eleftherios Vlahakis , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos , Raphael Jungers

Serverless Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a cost-effective solution for deploying AI services by enabling a 'pay-as-you-go' pricing model through GPU resource sharing. However, cold-start latency, especially the model loading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenbin Zhu , Zhaoyan Shen , Zili Shao , Hongjun Dai , Feng Chen

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged to reduce the deployment cost of running cloud applications compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). FaaS follows a serverless 'pay-as-you-go' computing model; it comes at a higher…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ali Raza , Zongshun Zhang , Nabeel Akhtar , Vatche Isahagian , Ibrahim Matta

We consider a scheduling problem where machines need to be rented from the cloud in order to process jobs. There are two types of machines available which can be rented for machine-type dependent prices and for arbitrary durations. However,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers