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With the proliferation of large language model (LLM) variants, developers are turning to serverless computing for cost-efficient LLM deployment. However, public cloud providers often struggle to provide performance guarantees for serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Chiheng Lou , Sheng Qi , Chao Jin , Dapeng Nie , Haoran Yang , Yu Ding , Xuanzhe Liu , Xin Jin

Serverless computing platforms currently rely on basic pricing schemes that are static and do not reflect customer feedback. This leads to significant inefficiencies from a total utility perspective. As one of the fastest-growing cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Vipul Gupta , Soham Phade , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Serverless computing, with its operational simplicity and on-demand scalability, has become a preferred paradigm for deploying workflow applications. However, resource allocation for workflows, particularly those with branching structures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Long Chen , Xinshuai Hua , Jinquan Zhang , Wenshuai Li , Xiaoping Li , Shijie Guo

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

Elastic scaling is one of the central benefits provided by serverless platforms, and requires that they scale resource up and down in response to changing workloads. Serverless platforms scale-down resources by terminating previously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kalev Alpernas , Aurojit Panda , Mooly Sagiv

Serverless computing is an emerging service model in distributed computing systems. The term captures cloud-based event-driven distributed application design and stems from its completely resource-transparent deployment model, i.e.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Manuel Stein

Serverless computing is transforming cloud application development, but the performance-cost trade-offs of control plane designs remain poorly understood due to a lack of open, cross-platform benchmarks and detailed system analyses. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Leonid Kondrashov , Boxi Zhou , Hancheng Wang , Dmitrii Ustiugov

Serverless computing has emerged as a compelling new paradigm of cloud computing models in recent years. It promises the user services at large scale and low cost while eliminating the need for infrastructure management. On cloud provider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Lucia Schuler , Somaya Jamil , Niklas Kühl

Serverless computing offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing, which place its autoscaling potential at odds with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Joseph M. Hellerstein , Jose Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Johann Schleier-Smith , Vikram Sreekanti , Alexey Tumanov , Chenggang Wu

Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chen Chen , Zihan Jia , Andrea Sabbioni , Reza Farahani , Lei Jiao

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm, which requires low response latency to handle on-demand user requests. There are two prominent techniques employed for reducing the response latency: keep fully initialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yulin Sun , Deepak Vij , Fenge Li , Wenjian Guo , Ying Xiong

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

Serverless computing has emerged as a new compelling paradigm for the deployment of applications and services. It represents an evolution of cloud programming models, abstractions, and platforms, and is a testament to the maturity and wide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Ioana Baldini , Paul Castro , Kerry Chang , Perry Cheng , Stephen Fink , Vatche Ishakian , Nick Mitchell , Vinod Muthusamy , Rodric Rabbah , Aleksander Slominski , Philippe Suter

Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless computing promises fine-grained elasticity and operational simplicity, fueling widespread interest from both industry and academia. Yet this promise is undercut by the cold setart problem, where invoking a function after a period…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ben Holmes , Baltasar Dinis , Lana Honcharuk , Joshua Fried , Adam Belay

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 has revolutionized cloud architectures by enabling developers to deploy event-driven applications via lightweight, self-contained virtualized containers. However, serverless frameworks face critical cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sabyasachi Gupta , Paul Gratz , John Lusher

The serverless computing model strengthens the cloud computing tendency to abstract resource management. Serverless platforms are responsible for deploying and scaling the developer's applications. Serverless also incorporated the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Paulo Silva , Thiago Emmanuel Pereira

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