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High performance is needed in many computing systems, from batch-managed supercomputers to general-purpose cloud platforms. However, scientific clusters lack elastic parallelism, while clouds cannot offer competitive costs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marcin Copik , Konstantin Taranov , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Fog computing can support IoT services with fast response time and low bandwidth usage by moving computation from the cloud to edge devices. However, existing fog computing frameworks have limited flexibility to support dynamic service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Bin Cheng , Jonathan Fürst , Gurkan Solmaz , Takuya Sanada

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

Serverless computing with cloud functions is quickly gaining adoption, but constrains programmers with its limited support for state management. We introduce a shared file system for cloud functions. It offers familiar POSIX semantics while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Johann Schleier-Smith , Leonhard Holz , Nathan Pemberton , Joseph M. Hellerstein

In response to the increasing volume and sensitivity of data, traditional centralized computing models face challenges, such as data security breaches and regulatory hurdles. Federated Computing (FC) addresses these concerns by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 René Schwermer , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a cloud service model enabling developers to offload event-driven executable snippets of code. The execution and management of such functions becomes a FaaS provider's responsibility, hereby included their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Vladimir Yussupov , Jacopo Soldani , Uwe Breitenbücher , Antonio Brogi , Frank Leymann

Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varad Kulkarni , Nikhil Reddy , Tuhin Khare , Abhinandan S. Prasad , Chitra Babu , Yogesh Simmhan

Federated learning is a machine learning technique that enables training across decentralized data. Recently, federated learning has become an active area of research due to an increased focus on privacy and security. In light of this, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jae Hun Ro , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Ke Wu

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

The increasing use of Internet of Things devices coincides with more communication and data movement in networks, which can exceed existing network capabilities. These devices often process sensor or user information, where data privacy and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Daniel Habenicht , Kevin Kreutz , Soeren Becker , Jonathan Bader , Lauritz Thamsen , Odej Kao

The massive growth of mobile and IoT devices demands geographically distributed computing systems for optimal performance, privacy, and scalability. However, existing edge-to-cloud serverless platforms lack location awareness, resulting in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Mohammadreza Malekabbasi , Tobias Pfandzelter , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

This paper describes the use of a distributed cloud computing system for high-throughput computing (HTC) scientific applications. The distributed cloud computing system is composed of a number of separate Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-11 R. Sobie , A. Agarwal , I. Gable , C. Leavett-Brown , M. Paterson , R. Taylor , A. Charbonneau , R. Impey , W. Podiama

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually offer composition services for such workflows, they do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

In cloud event processing, data generated at the edge is processed in real-time by cloud resources. Both distributed stream processing (DSP) and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) have been proposed to implement such event processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Tobias Pfandzelter , Sören Henning , Trever Schirmer , Wilhelm Hasselbring , David Bermbach

Offloading computation from user devices to nodes with processing capabilities at the edge of the network is a major trend in today's network/service architectures. At the same time, serverless computing has gained a huge traction among the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda) executing event-triggered code snippets (i.e., functions). Many studies that empirically evaluate…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner

Coordination is essential for dynamic distributed systems whose components exhibit interactive and autonomous behaviors. Spatially distributed, locally interacting, propagating computational fields are particularly appealing for allowing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Alberto Lluch Lafuente , Michele Loreti , Ugo Montanari

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

Developing stateful cloud applications, such as low-latency workflows and microservices with strict consistency requirements, remains arduous for programmers. The Stateful Functions-as-a-Service (SFaaS) paradigm aims to serve these use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kyriakos Psarakis , George Christodoulou , George Siachamis , Marios Fragkoulis , Asterios Katsifodimos

With the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, Serverless Computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has witnessed growing popularity across various application domains. FaaS enables an application to be decomposed into fine-grained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mohak Chadha , Paul Wieland , Michael Gerndt