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Datacenters are witnessing a rapid surge in the adoption of serverless functions for microservices-based applications. A vast majority of these microservices typically span less than a second, have strict SLO requirements, and are chained…
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In recent years, the issue of energy consumption in parallel and distributed computing systems has attracted a great deal of attention. In response to this, many energy-aware scheduling algorithms have been developed primarily using the…
Nowadays, improving the energy efficiency of high-performance computing (HPC) systems is one of the main drivers in scientific and technological research. As large-scale HPC systems require some fault-tolerant method, the opportunities to…
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