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Despite existing work in machine learning inference serving, ease-of-use and cost efficiency remain challenges at large scales. Developers must manually search through thousands of model-variants -- versions of already-trained models that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Francisco Romero , Qian Li , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Christos Kozyrakis

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for its ease-of-management and elasticity. However, optimizing scheduling for serverless functions remains challenging due to their dynamic and event-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhuangbin Chen , Juzheng Zheng , Zibin Zheng

In modern low-power embedded platforms, floating-point (FP) operations emerge as a major contributor to the energy consumption of compute-intensive applications with large dynamic range. Experimental evidence shows that 50% of the energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Giuseppe Tagliavini , Stefan Mach , Davide Rossi , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

Makespan minimization in tasks scheduling of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud is an NP-hard problem. A number of techniques had been used in the past to optimize the makespan time of scheduled tasks in IaaS cloud, which is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Shafii Muhammad Abdulhamid , Muhammad Shafie Abd Latiff , Ismaila Idris

In a world, where complexity increases on a daily basis the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) cloud model seams to take countermeasures. In comparison to other cloud models, the fast evolving FaaS increasingly abstracts the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Roland Pellegrini , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber

Existing serverless workflow orchestration systems are predominantly designed for a single-cloud FaaS system, leading to vendor lock-in. This restricts performance optimization, cost reduction, and availability of applications. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rui Li , Jianfei Liu , Zhilin Yang , Peichang Shi , Guodong Yi , Huaimin Wang

Scientific Computing typically requires large computational needs which have been addressed with High Performance Distributed Computing. It is essential to efficiently deploy a number of complex scientific applications, which have different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Mariza Ferro , Antonio R. Mury , Bruno Schulze

Many computer systems for calculating the proper organization of memory are among the most critical issues. Using a tier cache memory (along with branching prediction) is an effective means of increasing modern multi-core processors'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Mohamed A. Hamada , Abdelrahman Abdallah

Agentic workflows that use autonomous AI Agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers is rapidly rising. This introduces challenges in scalable cloud deployment and state management. Traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Varad Kulkarni , Vaibhav Jha , Nikhil Reddy , Anand Eswaran , Praveen Jayachandran , Yogesh Simmhan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is increasingly popular in the software industry due to the implied cost-savings in event-driven workloads and its synergy with DevOps. To size an on-premise FaaS platform, it is important to estimate the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Alim Ul Gias , Giuliano Casale

The flexibility and the variety of computing resources offered by the cloud make it particularly attractive for executing user workloads. However, IaaS cloud environments pose non-trivial challenges in the case of workflow scheduling under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gabriele Russo Russo , Romolo Marotta , Flavio Cordari , Francesco Quaglia , Valeria Cardellini , Pierangelo Di Sanzo

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a type of serverless computing that allows developers to write and deploy code as individual functions, which can be triggered by specific events or requests. FaaS platforms automatically manage the…

The continuous growth of big data applications with high computational and scalability demands has resulted in increasing popularity of cloud computing. Optimizing the performance and power consumption of cloud resources is therefore…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Sahand Salamat , Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Point-based Neural Networks (PNNs) have become a key approach for point cloud processing. However, a core operation in these models, Farthest Point Sampling (FPS), often introduces significant inference latency, especially for large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuzhe Fu , Hancheng Ye , Cong Guo , Junyao Zhang , Qinsi Wang , Yueqian Lin , Changchun Zhou , Hai , Li , Yiran 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 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

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) play key role in high performance and scientific computing applications. Experimentally, yesteryear multicore and General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are capable of achieving up to 15…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Farhad Merchant , Tarun Vatwani , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Soumyendu Raha , S K Nandy , Ranjani Narayan

Recent trends of technology have explored a numerous applications of cloud services, which require a significant amount of energy. In the present scenario, most of the energy sources are limited and have a greenhouse effect on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sohan Kumar Pande , Sanjaya Kumar Panda , Preeti Ranjan Sahu