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The recent convergence of edge computing, serverless execution, and Kubernetes (K8s) based container orchestration has enabled the processing of application workflows close to data sources. While effective within a single edge cluster,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Reza Farahani , Mario Colosi , Ilir Murturi , Stefan Nastic , Massimo Villari , Schahram Dustdar , Radu Prodan

With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverless is more than ten years old, there are different platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Trever Schirmer , Aris Wiegand , Lucca di Benedetto , Linus Gustafsson , Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

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

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

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

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

Cloud computing offers on-demand, scalable computing and storage, and has become an essential resource for the analyses of big biomedical data. The usual approach to cloud computing requires users to reserve and provision virtual servers.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-01 Dimitar Kumanov , Ling-Hong Hung , Wes Lloyd , Ka Yee Yeung

Stream processing is a compute paradigm that promises safe and efficient parallelism. Modern big-data problems are often well suited for stream processing's throughput-oriented nature. Realization of efficient stream processing requires…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jonathan C. Beard , Roger D. Chamberlain

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

To improve customer experience, datacenter operators offer support for simplifying application and resource management. For example, running workloads of workflows on behalf of customers is desirable, but requires increasingly more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Laurens Versluis , Mihai Neacşu , Alexandru Iosup

We present a framework for scheduling multifunction serverless applications over a hybrid public-private cloud. A set of serverless jobs is input as a batch, and the objective is to schedule function executions over the hybrid platform to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Anirban Das , Andrew Leaf , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

[Background] Nowadays, there is a massive growth of data volume and speed in many types of systems. It introduces new needs for infrastructure and applications that have to handle streams of data with low latency and high throughput.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Alexandre Vianna , Waldemar Ferreira , Kiev Gama

Workflow technology is rapidly evolving and, rather than being limited to modeling the control flow in business processes, is becoming a key mechanism to perform advanced data management, such as big data analytics. This survey focuses on…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Georgia Kougka , Anastasios Gounaris , Alkis Simitsis

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Angel C. Chavez-Moreno , Cristina L. Abad

Serverless computing, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki

Since the appearance of Amazon Lambda in 2014, all major cloud providers have embraced the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, because of its enormous potential for a wide variety of applications. As expected (and also desired), the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pedro García López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Gerard París , Daniel Barcelona Pons , Álvaro Ruiz Ollobarren , David Arroyo Pinto

With the explosive growth of big data, workloads tend to get more complex and computationally demanding. Such applications are processed on distributed interconnected resources that are becoming larger in scale and computational capacity.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Georgios L. Stavrinides , Helen D. Karatza

Time series (TS) are present in many fields of knowledge, research, and engineering. The processing and analysis of TS are essential in order to extract knowledge from the data and to tackle forecasting or predictive maintenance tasks among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Manuel Parra-Royón , Francisco Baldan , Ghislain Atemezing , J. M. Benitez

Serverless computing is a popular cloud deployment paradigm where developers implement applications as workflows of functions that invoke each other. Cloud providers automatically scale function instances on demand and forward workflow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Shyam Jesalpura , Mert Bora Alper , Michal Baczun , Rustem Feyzkhanov , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot , Marios Kogias

Analytical performance models are very effective in ensuring the quality of service and cost of service deployment remain desirable under different conditions and workloads. While various analytical performance models have been proposed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei