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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…

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Serverless computing offers attractive scalability, elasticity and cost-effectiveness. However, constraints on memory, CPU and function runtime have hindered its adoption for data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML) workloads.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become a central paradigm in serverless cloud computing, yet optimizing FaaS deployments remains challenging. Using function fusion, multiple functions can be combined into a single deployment unit, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Niklas Kowallik , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Deep learning (DL), a form of machine learning, is becoming increasingly popular in several application domains. As a result, cloud-based Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) platforms have become an essential infrastructure in many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Scott Boag , Parijat Dube , Kaoutar El Maghraoui , Benjamin Herta , Waldemar Hummer , K. R. Jayaram , Rania Khalaf , Vinod Muthusamy , Michael Kalantar , Archit Verma

Serverless query processing has become increasingly popular due to its auto-scaling, high elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It allows cloud data warehouse (or lakehouse) users to focus on data analysis without the burden of managing…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haoqiong Bian , Dongyang Geng , Yunpeng Chai , Anastasia Ailamaki

We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

This review report discusses the cold start latency in serverless inference and existing solutions. It particularly reviews the ServerlessLLM method, a system designed to address the cold start problem in serverless inference for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Himel Ghosh

Dynamic offloading of Machine Learning (ML) model partitions across different resource orchestration services, such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), can balance processing and transmission delays while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

The Function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing model has recently seen significant growth especially for highly scalable, event-driven applications. The easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient fine-grained billing of FaaS is highly attractive to big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yuze Li , Kevin Assogba , Abhijit Tripathy , Moiz Arif , M. Mustafa Rafique , Ali R. Butt , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

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

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) is a popular cloud-based solution for customers who aim to use an ML model but lack training data, computation resources, or expertise in ML. In this case, the training datasets are typically a private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Mingxue Xu , Tongtong Xu , Po-Yu Chen

Machine Learning (ML) will play significant role in success of the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) program at CERN. The unprecedented amount of data at the Exa-Byte scale to be collected by the CERN experiments in next decade will…

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In Function as a Service (FaaS), a serverless computing variant, customers deploy functions instead of complete virtual machines or Linux containers. It is the cloud provider who maintains the runtime environment for these functions. FaaS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Bartłomiej Przybylski , Paweł Żuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) allows clients with limited resources to outsource their expensive ML tasks to powerful servers. Despite the huge benefits, current MLaaS solutions still lack strong assurances on: 1) service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Cong Wang , Qi Li , Chao Shen , Xiaodong Lin , Shengshan Hu , Minxin Du

This paper explores serverless cloud computing for double machine learning. Being based on repeated cross-fitting, double machine learning is particularly well suited to exploit the high level of parallelism achievable with serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Malte S. Kurz

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

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

Machine learning as a Service (MLaaS) allows users to query the machine learning model in an API manner, which provides an opportunity for users to enjoy the benefits brought by the high-performance model trained on valuable data. This…

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