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Serverless computing is a cloud computing paradigm that allows developers to focus exclusively on business logic as cloud service providers manage resource management tasks. Serverless applications follow this model, where the application…

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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a type of serverless computing that allows developers to write and deploy code as individual functions, which can be triggered by specific events or requests. FaaS platforms automatically manage the…

High performance is needed in many computing systems, from batch-managed supercomputers to general-purpose cloud platforms. However, scientific clusters lack elastic parallelism, while clouds cannot offer competitive costs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marcin Copik , Konstantin Taranov , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ali Raza , Zongshun Zhang , Nabeel Akhtar , Vatche Isahagian , Ibrahim Matta

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the execution scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent developments demonstrate the benefits of using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Reliable and trustworthy evaluation of algorithms is a challenging process. Firstly, each algorithm has its strengths and weaknesses, and the selection of test instances can significantly influence the assessment process. Secondly, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Szymon Wasik , Maciej Antczak , Jan Badura , Artur Laskowski

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,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows to directly submit function code to a cloud provider without the burden of managing infrastructure resources. Each cloud provider establishes execution time limits to their FaaS offerings, which impose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Rodrigo Landa Andraca , Mahdi Zareei

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-05 David Bermbach , Setareh Maghsudi , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud paradigm to quickly and cheaply implement complex applications. Because the function instances cloud providers start to execute user code run on shared infrastructure, their…

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

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

The massive growth of mobile and IoT devices demands geographically distributed computing systems for optimal performance, privacy, and scalability. However, existing edge-to-cloud serverless platforms lack location awareness, resulting in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Mohammadreza Malekabbasi , Tobias Pfandzelter , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

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

The proliferation of edge devices and the rapid growth of IoT data have called forth the edge computing paradigm. Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a promising computing paradigm to realize edge computing. This paper explores the feasibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Runyu Jin , Qirui Yang , Ming Zhao

Developing accurate and extendable performance models for serverless platforms, aka Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, is a very challenging task. Also, implementation and experimentation on real serverless platforms is both costly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei

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

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that frees developers from server management. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the most popular implementation of serverless computing, representing applications as event-driven and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xuanzhe Liu , Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Ding Li , Junkai Chen , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

Serverless computing has emerged as a very popular cloud technology, together with its companion Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model enabling invocations of stateless functions from clients. An evolution of serverless is now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella