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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Niklas Kowallik , Joshua Adamek , Tobias Pfandzelter , Sergio Lucia , David Bermbach

The increased use of micro-services to build web applications has spurred the rapid growth of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) or serverless computing platforms. While FaaS simplifies provisioning and scaling for application developers, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Arjun Singhvi , Kevin Houck , Arjun Balasubramanian , Mohammed Danish Shaikh , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

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

Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), enables a new way of building and scaling applications by allowing users to deploy fine-grained functions while providing fully-managed resource provisioning and auto-scaling. Custom…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ao Wang , Shuai Chang , Huangshi Tian , Hongqi Wang , Haoran Yang , Huiba Li , Rui Du , Yue Cheng

In recent years Serverless Computing has emerged as a compelling cloud based model for the development of a wide range of data-intensive applications. However, rapid container provisioning introduces non-trivial challenges for FaaS cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Tomaras , Michail Tsenos , Vana Kalogeraki

Serverless computing has become very popular today since it largely simplifies cloud programming. Developers do not need to longer worry about provisioning or operating servers, and they pay only for the compute resources used when their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pedro García-López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Simon Shillaker , Peter Pietzuch , David Breitgand , Gil Vernik , Pierre Sutra , Tristan Tarrant , Ana Juan Ferrer

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become an increasingly popular way for users to deploy their applications without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. However, existing FaaS platforms rely on remote storage to maintain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Francisco Romero , Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Íñigo Goiri , Pragna Gopa , Paul Batum , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Rodrigo Fonseca , Christos Kozyrakis , Ricardo Bianchini

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables portable, sandboxed, and near-native execution across heterogeneous platforms, making it well-suited for serverless workflow execution on browsers, edge nodes, and cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mario Colosi , Reza Farahani , Lauri Loven , Radu Prodan , Massimo Villari

Operating a scalable and reliable server application, such as publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems, requires tremendous development efforts and resources. The emerging serverless paradigm simplifies the development and deployment of highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Pezhman Nasirifard , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

The metadata service (MDS) sits on the critical path for distributed file system (DFS) operations, and therefore it is key to the overall performance of a large-scale DFS. Common "serverful" MDS architectures, such as a single server or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Benjamin Carver , Runzhou Han , Jingyaun Zhang , Mai Zheng , Yue Cheng

With the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency computing, cloud computing, especially serverless computing, has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years, attracting numerous research attention. Meanwhile,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hanzhe Li , Bingchen Lin , Mengyuan Xu

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

With the proliferation of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks, and the programming languages that they use, along with operations of data loading, transformation, preparation and mining, ML model development is becoming a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Anirban Bhattacharjee , Yogesh Barve , Shweta Khare , Shunxing Bao , Aniruddha Gokhale , Thomas Damiano

New cloud programming and deployment models pose challenges to software application engineers who are looking, often in vain, for tools to automate any necessary code adaptation and transformation. Function-as-a-Service interfaces are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Josef Spillner

Serverless computing has grown rapidly for serving Large Language Model (LLM) inference due to its pay-as-you-go pricing, fine-grained GPU usage, and rapid scaling. However, our analysis reveals that current serverless can effectively serve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifan Sui , Hao Wang , Hanfei Yu , Yitao Hu , Jianxun Li , Hao Wang

Serverless computing promises convenient abstractions for developing and deploying functions that execute in response to events. In such Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, scheduling is an integral task, but current scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saman Akbari , Manfred Hauswirth

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

Serverless computing is gaining traction as an attractive model for the deployment of a multitude of workloads in the cloud. Designing and building effective resource management solutions for any computing environment requires extensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anupama Mampage , Rajkumar Buyya

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their applications into FaaS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Trever Schirmer , Joel Scheuner , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach