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For current High Performance Computing systems to scale towards the holy grail of ExaFLOP performance, their power consumption has to be reduced by at least one order of magnitude. This goal can be achieved only through a combination of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Alina Sîrbu , Ozalp Babaoglu

Prediction serving systems are designed to provide large volumes of low-latency inferences machine learning models. These systems mix data processing and computationally intensive model inference and benefit from multiple heterogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Vikram Sreekanti , Harikaran Subbaraj , Chenggang Wu , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Large data centers are being deployed in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, introducing significant flexible load potential. A portion of data center workloads - best-effort (BE) jobs - can be scheduled flexibly to reduce power system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Akibul Hasan Mazumder , Yuanrui Sang

Achieving a sustainable electricity infrastructure requires the explicit integration of carbon emissions into power system modeling and optimization. However, existing open-source test cases for power system research lack generator-level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Young-ho Cho , Min-Seung Ko , Hao Zhu

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that has been applied to various domains, including machine learning, scientific computing, video processing, etc. To develop serverless computing-based software applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu

The growing reliance on large-scale data centers to run resource-intensive workloads has significantly increased the global carbon footprint, underscoring the need for sustainable computing solutions. While container orchestration platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zainab Saad , Jialin Yang , Henry Leung , Steve Drew

Multi-stage serverless applications, i.e., workflows with many computation and I/O stages, are becoming increasingly representative of FaaS platforms. Despite their advantages in terms of fine-grained scalability and modular development,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhuangzhuang Zhou , Yanqi Zhang , Christina Delimitrou

With the advancement of Cloud Computing over the past few years, there has been a massive shift from traditional data centers to cloud enabled data centers. The enterprises with cloud data centers are focusing their attention on energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Radheshyam Nanduri , Dharmesh Kakadia , Vasudeva Varma

IoT and edge-based inference systems require unique solutions to overcome resource limitations and unpredictable environments. In this paper, we propose an environment-aware dynamic pruning system that handles the unpredictability of edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Austin O'Quinn , Conor Snedeker , Siyuan Zhang , Jenna Kline

This paper presents a solution to the challenge of mitigating carbon emissions from hosting large-scale machine learning (ML) inference services. ML inference is critical to modern technology products, but it is also a significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Baolin Li , Siddharth Samsi , Vijay Gadepally , Devesh Tiwari

Large Language Models (LLMs) enable real-time function calling in edge AI systems but introduce significant computational overhead, leading to high power consumption and carbon emissions. Existing methods optimize for performance while…

Serverless computing paradigm has become more ingrained into the industry, as it offers a cheap alternative for application development and deployment. This new paradigm has also created new kinds of problems for the developer, who needs to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Gor Safaryan , Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

Cloud-based software has many advantages. When services are divided into many independent components, they are easier to update. Also, during peak demand, it is easier to scale cloud services (just hire more CPUs). Hence, many organizations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Rahul Yedida , Rahul Krishna , Anup Kalia , Tim Menzies , Jin Xiao , Maja Vukovic

This paper introduces a new primitive to serverless language runtimes called freshen. With freshen, developers or providers specify functionality to perform before a given function executes. This proactive technique allows for overheads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Erika Hunhoff , Shazal Irshad , Vijay Thurimella , Ali Tariq , Eric Rozner

Serverless computing offers elastic scaling and pay-per-use execution, making it well-suited for AI workloads. As these workloads run in heterogeneous environments such as the Edge-Cloud-Space 3D Continuum, they often require intensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Maximilian Reisecker , Cynthia Marcelino , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

The advent of serverless computing has revolutionized the landscape of cloud computing, offering a new paradigm that enables developers to focus solely on their applications rather than managing and provisioning the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Rafael Capilla

Building design directly affects human well-being and carbon emissions, yet generating spatial-functional and energy-compliant floorplans remains manual, costly, and non-scalable. Existing methods produce visually plausible layouts but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pengyu Zeng , Yuqin Dai , Jun Yin , Jing Zhong , Ziyang Han , Chaoyang Shi , ZhanXiang Jin , Maowei Jiang , Yuxing Han , Shuai Lu

Environmental sustainability is a major and relevant challenge facing computing. Therefore, we must start teaching theory, techniques, and practices that both increase an awareness in our student population as well a provide concrete advice…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Henrik Bærbak Christensen , Maja Hanne Kirkeby , Bent Thomsen , Lone Leth Thomsen

The increasing demand for edge computing is leading to a rise in energy consumption from edge devices, which can have significant environmental and financial implications. To address this, in this paper we present a novel method to enhance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Aria Khoshsirat , Giovanni Perin , Michele Rossi

In recent years Serverless Computing has emerged as a compelling cloud based model for the development of a wide range of data-intensive applications. However, rapid container provisioning introduces non-trivial challenges for FaaS cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Tomaras , Michail Tsenos , Vana Kalogeraki