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Swarms of autonomous devices are increasing in ubiquity and size, making the need for rethinking their hardware-software system stack critical. We present HiveMind, the first swarm coordination platform that enables programmable execution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Liam Patterson , David Pigorovsky , Brian Dempsey , Nikita Lazarev , Aditya Shah , Clara Steinhoff , Ariana Bruno , Justin Hu , Christina Delimitrou

Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian

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

Developing an efficient server-based real-time scheduling solution that supports dynamic task-level parallelism is now relevant to even the desktop and embedded domains and no longer only to the high performance computing market niche. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Luís Nogueira , Luís Miguel Pinho

Serverless computing -- an emerging cloud-native paradigm for the deployment of applications and services -- represents an evolution in cloud application development, programming models, abstractions, and platforms. It promises a real…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Paul Castro , Vatche Ishakian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

TensorFlow is a popular cloud computing framework that targets machine learning applications. It separates the specification of application logic (in a dataflow graph) from the execution of the logic. TensorFlow's native runtime executes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Sam Whitlock , James Larus , Edouard Bugnion

Distributed Machine Learning refers to the practice of training a model on multiple computers or devices that can be called nodes. Additionally, serverless computing is a new paradigm for cloud computing that uses functions as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

Serverless computing significantly alters software development by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling rapid, modular, event-driven deployments. Despite its benefits, the distinct characteristics of serverless functions, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Amine Barrak , Emna Ksontini , Ridouane Atike , Fehmi Jaafar

In an overloaded FaaS cluster, individual worker nodes strain under lengthening queues of requests. Although the cluster might be eventually horizontally-scaled, adding a new node takes dozens of seconds. As serving applications are tuned…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Paweł Żuk , Bartłomiej Przybylski , Krzysztof Rzadca

The deployment of edge computing infrastructure requires a careful placement of the edge servers, with an aim to improve application latencies and reduce data transfer load in opportunistic Internet of Things systems. In the edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Tero Lähderanta , Teemu Leppänen , Leena Ruha , Lauri Lovén , Erkki Harjula , Mika Ylianttila , Jukka Riekki , Mikko J. Sillanpää

Application Service Providers (ASPs) obtaining resources from multiple clouds have to contend with different management and control platforms employed by the cloud service providers (CSPs) and network service providers (NSP). Distributing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Mohammed Samaka

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to growing concerns about data security and user privacy in the interactions within distributed systems. Decentralized Applications (DApps) in distributed systems consist…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiangyu Liu , Brian Lee , Yuansong Qiao

This paper focuses on the analysis of real-time non preemptive multiprocessor scheduling with precedence and several latency constraints. It aims to specify a schedulability condition which enables a designer to check a priori -without…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Omar Kermia

In this paper, we consider multiple cache-enabled clients connected to multiple servers through an intermediate network. We design several topology-aware coding strategies for such networks. Based on topology richness of the intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Today's datacenters face important challenges for providing low-latency high-quality interactive services to meet user's expectation. For improving the application throughput, recent research works have embedded application deadline…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Ming-Hung Chen , Shi-Chen Wang , Cheng-Fu Chou

The limited capabilities of user equipment restrict the local implementation of computation-intensive applications. Edge computing, especially the edge intelligence system, enables local users to offload the computation tasks to the edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Han Zhu

High Speed computing meets ever increasing real-time computational demands through the leveraging of flexibility and parallelism. The flexibility is achieved when computing platform designed with heterogeneous resources to support…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Mahendra Vucha , Arvind Rajawat

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

Chaining functions for longer workloads is a key use case for FaaS platforms in data applications. However, modern data pipelines differ significantly from typical serverless use cases (e.g., webhooks and microservices); this makes it…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jacopo Tagliabue , Tyler Caraza-Harter , Ciro Greco

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