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funcX is a distributed function as a service (FaaS) platform that enables flexible, scalable, and high performance remote function execution. Unlike centralized FaaS systems, funcX decouples the cloud-hosted management functionality from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Zhuozhao Li , Ryan Chard , Yadu Babuji , Ben Galewsky , Tyler Skluzacek , Kirill Nagaitsev , Anna Woodard , Ben Blaiszik , Josh Bryan , Daniel S. Katz , Ian Foster , Kyle Chard

As AI systems evolve into distributed ecosystems with autonomous execution, asynchronous reasoning, and multi-agent coordination, the absence of scalable, decoupled governance poses a structural risk. Existing oversight mechanisms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Suyash Gaurav , Jukka Heikkonen , Jatin Chaudhary

AI tools to support real world decision making must be able to build simulation models that inform their recommendations and render them interpretable. Tools that can automate aspects of modeling practice must complement human expertise,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sara Metcalf , William Schoenberg

Serverless computing, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki

Serverless applications can be particularly difficult to troubleshoot, as these applications are often composed of various managed and partly managed services. Faults are often unpredictable and can occur at multiple points, even in simple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Maria C. Borges , Sebastian Werner , Ahmet Kilic

Domain-specific software and hardware co-design is encouraging as it is much easier to achieve efficiency for fewer tasks. Agile domain-specific benchmarking speeds up the process as it provides not only relevant design inputs but also…

Now we live in an era of big data, and big data applications are becoming more and more pervasive. How to benchmark data center computer systems running big data applications (in short big data systems) is a hot topic. In this paper, we…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Zhen Jia , Runlin Zhou , Chunge Zhu , Lei Wang , Wanling Gao , Yingjie Shi , Jianfeng Zhan , Lixin Zhang

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) enables developers to run serverless applications without managing operational tasks. In current FaaS platforms, both synchronous and asynchronous calls are executed immediately. In this paper, we present…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Trever Schirmer , Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Federated Learning (FL) has become a key choice for distributed machine learning. Initially focused on centralized aggregation, recent works in FL have emphasized greater decentralization to adapt to the highly heterogeneous network edge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ahnaf Hannan Lodhi , Barış Akgün , Öznur Özkasap

In edge computing scenarios, the distribution of data and collaboration of workloads on different layers are serious concerns for performance, privacy, and security issues. So for edge computing benchmarking, we must take an end-to-end…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Tianshu Hao , Yunyou Huang , Xu Wen , Wanling Gao , Fan Zhang , Chen Zheng , Lei Wang , Hainan Ye , Kai Hwang , Zujie Ren , Jianfeng Zhan

As urban populations grow, cities are becoming more complex, driving the deployment of interconnected sensing systems to realize the vision of smart cities. These systems aim to improve safety, mobility, and quality of life through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Navid Salami Pargoo , Mahshid Ghasemi , Shuren Xia , Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Taqiya Ehsan , Chengbo Zang , Yuan Sun , Javad Ghaderi , Gil Zussman , Zoran Kostic , Jorge Ortiz

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has a lot of potential as a computing model for fog environments comprising both cloud and edge nodes, as compute requests can be scheduled across the entire fog continuum in a fine-grained manner.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-24 David Bermbach , Jonathan Bader , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter , Lauritz Thamsen

Edge computing is the next Internet frontier that will leverage computing resources located near users, sensors, and data stores to provide more responsive services. Therefore, it is envisioned that a large-scale, geographically dispersed,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , David Bermbach , Cheol-Ho Hong , Eyal de Lara , Weisong Shi , Christopher Stewart

Benchmarks are essential for unified evaluation and reproducibility. The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE) has produced numerous benchmarks for tasks such as code generation and bug repair. However, this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Roham Koohestani , Philippe de Bekker , Begüm Koç , Maliheh Izadi

Fog computing can support IoT services with fast response time and low bandwidth usage by moving computation from the cloud to edge devices. However, existing fog computing frameworks have limited flexibility to support dynamic service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Bin Cheng , Jonathan Fürst , Gurkan Solmaz , Takuya Sanada

We present FedScale, a federated learning (FL) benchmarking suite with realistic datasets and a scalable runtime to enable reproducible FL research. FedScale datasets encompass a wide range of critical FL tasks, ranging from image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fan Lai , Yinwei Dai , Sanjay S. Singapuram , Jiachen Liu , Xiangfeng Zhu , Harsha V. Madhyastha , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Global corporations (e.g., Google and Microsoft) have recently introduced a new model of cloud services, fuzzing-as-a-service (FaaS). Despite effectively alleviating the cost of fuzzing, the model comes with privacy concerns. For example,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Fan Sang , Daehee Jang , Ming-Wei Shih , Taesoo Kim

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

Cloud computing, offering on-demand access to computing resources through the Internet and the pay-as-you-go model, has marked the last decade with its three main service models; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Berat Can Senel , Maxime Mouchet , Justin Cappos , Olivier Fourmaux , Timur Friedman , Rick McGeer

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