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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged to reduce the deployment cost of running cloud applications compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). FaaS follows a serverless 'pay-as-you-go' computing model; it comes at a higher…

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HPC and Cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access…

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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and "serverless" cloud computing are becoming increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do minimal I/O and communication. We argue that the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Vikram Sreekanti , Chenggang Wu , Xiayue Charles Lin , Johann Schleier-Smith , Jose M. Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Alexey Tumanov

Serverless computing with cloud functions is quickly gaining adoption, but constrains programmers with its limited support for state management. We introduce a shared file system for cloud functions. It offers familiar POSIX semantics while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Johann Schleier-Smith , Leonhard Holz , Nathan Pemberton , Joseph M. Hellerstein

FaaS introduces a lightweight, function-based cloud execution model that finds its relevance in a range of applications like IoT-edge data processing and anomaly detection. While cloud service providers offer a near-infinite function…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Most cloud platforms have a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that enables users to easily write highly scalable applications. To better understand how the platform's architecture impacts its performance, we present a research-focused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Serverless computing has seen a myriad of work exploring its potential. Some systems tackle Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) properties on automatic elasticity and scale to run highly-parallel computing jobs. However, they focus on specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Pedro García-López

Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), enables a new way of building and scaling applications by allowing users to deploy fine-grained functions while providing fully-managed resource provisioning and auto-scaling. Custom…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ao Wang , Shuai Chang , Huangshi Tian , Hongqi Wang , Haoran Yang , Huiba Li , Rui Du , Yue Cheng

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. When the request rate exceeds capacity limits at the edge, some functions need to be offloaded…

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Serverless technologies, also known as FaaS (Function as a Service), are promoted as solutions that provide dynamic scalability, speed of development, cost-per-consumption model, and the ability to focus on the code while taking attention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Juan Mera Menéndez , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo , Enrique Riesgo Canal , Aitor Echevarría Fernández

Experimental data can aid in gaining insights about a system operation, as well as determining critical aspects of a modelling or simulation process. In this paper, we analyze the data acquired from an extensive experimentation process in a…

Meeting the requirements of future services with time sensitivity and handling sudden load spikes of the services in Fog computing environments are challenging tasks due to the lack of publicly available Fog nodes and their characteristics.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sudheer Kumar Battula , Saurabh Garg , James Montgomery , Ranesh Naha

The serverless computing ecosystem is growing due to interest by software engineers. Beside Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) systems, developer-oriented tools such as deployment and debugging frameworks as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Josef Spillner

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhuangbin Chen , Juzheng Zheng , Zibin Zheng

Serverless computing, also known as Functions-as-a-Service, is a recent paradigm aimed at simplifying the programming of cloud applications. The idea is that developers design applications in terms of functions, which are then deployed on a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Saverio Giallorenzo , Ivan Lanese , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Stefano Pio Zingaro

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

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

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Serverless computing is a paradigm in which the underlying infrastructure is fully managed by the provider, enabling applications and services to be executed with elastic resource provisioning and minimal operational overhead. A core model…

Serverless computing is a growing and maturing field that is the focus of much research, industry interest and adoption. Previous works exploring Functions-as-a-Service providers have focused primarily on the most well known providers AWS…

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