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Redy is a cloud service that provides high performance caches using RDMA-accessible remote memory. An application can customize the performance of each cache with a service level objective (SLO) for latency and throughput. By using remote…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Qizhen Zhang , Philip A. Bernstein , Daniel S. Berger , Badrish Chandramouli

Integrating GPUs into serverless computing platforms is crucial for improving efficiency. However, existing solutions for GPU-enabled serverless computing platforms face two significant problems due to coarse-grained GPU management: long…

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In recent years, SSDs have gained tremendous attention in computing and storage systems due to significant performance improvement over HDDs. The cost per capacity of SSDs, however, prevents them from entirely replacing HDDs in such…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Reza Salkhordeh , Shahriar Ebrahimi , Hossein Asadi

Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

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

A fundamental challenge in large-scale cloud networks and data centers is to achieve highly efficient server utilization and limit energy consumption, while providing excellent user-perceived performance in the presence of uncertain and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Debankur Mukherjee , Souvik Dhara , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Many applications have service requirements that are not easily met by existing operating systems. Real-time and security-critical tasks, for example, often require custom OSes to meet their needs. However, development of special purpose…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Ying Ye , Zhuoqun Cheng , Soham Sinha , Richard West

Container virtualization enables emerging AI workloads such as model serving, highly parallelized training, machine learning pipelines, and so on, to be easily scaled on demand on the elastic cloud infrastructure. Particularly, AI workloads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Takeshi Yoshimura , Tatsuhiro Chiba , Sunyanan Choochotkaew , Seetharami Seelam , Hui-fang Wen , Jonas Pfefferle

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

We study the problem of maximizing the average hourly profit earned by a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider who runs a software service on behalf of a customer using servers rented from an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Michele Mazzucco , Martti Vasar , Marlon Dumas

Serverless computing has made it easier than ever to deploy applications over scalable cloud resources, all the while driving higher utilization for cloud providers. While this technique has worked well for easily divisible resources like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Nathan Pemberton , Anton Zabreyko , Zhoujie Ding , Randy Katz , Joseph Gonzalez

Serverless functions are a cloud computing paradigm where the provider takes care of resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Simon Eismann , Long Bui , Johannes Grohmann , Cristina L. Abad , Nikolas Herbst , Samuel Kounev

The rapid adoption of serverless computing necessitates a deeper understanding of its underlying operational mechanics, particularly concerning request routing, cold starts, function scaling, and resource management. This paper presents…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Shoele Jamali , Mehrdad J. Bani

In recent years, high interest in using Virtual Machines (VMs) in data centers and Cloud computing has significantly increased the demand for high-performance data storage systems. Recent studies suggest using SSDs as a caching layer for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Saba Ahmadian , Onur Mutlu , Hossein Asadi

While reduction in feature size makes computation cheaper in terms of latency, area, and power consumption, performance of emerging data-intensive applications is determined by data movement. These trends have introduced the concept of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Bahar Asgari , Saibal Mukhopadhyay , Sudhakar Yalamanchili

With the ever increasing demands of cloud computing services, planning and management of cloud resources has become a more and more important issue which directed affects the resource utilization and SLA and customer satisfaction. But…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Xiajun Wang , Song Huang , Song Fu , Krishna Kavi

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable results for a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models for inference has been a significant challenge due to their unprecedented resource requirements. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sehoon Kim , Coleman Hooper , Amir Gholami , Zhen Dong , Xiuyu Li , Sheng Shen , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

Serverless clouds promise efficient scaling, reduced toil and monetary costs. Yet, serverless-ing a complex, legacy application might require major refactoring and thus is risky. As a case study, we use Airflow, an industry-standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Filip Mikina , Pawel Zuk , Krzysztof Rzadca