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In modern computing systems, jobs' resource requirements often vary over time. Accounting for this temporal variability during job scheduling is essential for meeting performance goals. However, theoretical understanding on how to schedule…

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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…

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Elastic scaling is one of the central benefits provided by serverless platforms, and requires that they scale resource up and down in response to changing workloads. Serverless platforms scale-down resources by terminating previously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kalev Alpernas , Aurojit Panda , Mooly Sagiv

The rapidly changing workload of service-based systems can easily cause under-/over-utilization on the component services, which can consequently affect the overall Quality of Service (QoS), such as latency. Self-adaptive services…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Satish Kumar , Tao Chen , Rami Bahsoon , Rajkumar Buyya

In production environments, large language model (LLM) serving is required to meet stringent service-level objectives (SLOs) amid highly variable request patterns. In practice, request lengths follow a long-tail distribution, which gives…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qipeng Wang

Serverless computing has revolutionized cloud architectures by enabling developers to deploy event-driven applications via lightweight, self-contained virtualized containers. However, serverless frameworks face critical cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sabyasachi Gupta , Paul Gratz , John Lusher

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their applications into FaaS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Trever Schirmer , Joel Scheuner , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

As securities trading systems transition to a microservices architecture, optimizing system performance presents challenges such as inefficient resource scheduling and high service response delays. Existing container orchestration platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Haojie Jia , Zhenhao Li , Gen Li , Minxian Xu , Kejiang Ye

Serverless applications are typically composed of function workflows in which multiple short-lived functions are triggered to exchange data in response to events or state changes. Current serverless platforms coordinate and trigger…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Minchen Yu , Tingjia Cao , Wei Wang , Ruichuan Chen

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

Current serverless offerings give users a limited degree of flexibility for configuring the resources allocated to their function invocations by either coupling memory and CPU resources together or providing no knobs at all. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Muhammad Bilal , Marco Canini , Rodrigo Fonseca , Rodrigo Rodrigues

Serverless computing increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their application into functions, which can be error-prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Trever Schirmer , Joel Scheuner , Tobias Pfandzelter , 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

Multi-agent systems powered by large language models have emerged as a promising paradigm for solving complex reasoning tasks through collaborative intelligence. However, efficiently deploying these systems on serverless GPU platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan

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

Datacenters are witnessing a rapid surge in the adoption of serverless functions for microservices-based applications. A vast majority of these microservices typically span less than a second, have strict SLO requirements, and are chained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran , Prashanth Thinakaran , Nachiappan Chidambaram , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Chita R. Das

Serverless computing has gained popularity in edge computing due to its flexible features, including the pay-per-use pricing model, auto-scaling capabilities, and multi-tenancy support. Complex Serverless-based applications typically rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ke Luo , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Serverless is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that facilitates developers to focus solely on the application logic rather than provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure. The inherent characteristics such as scalability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Kari Smolander

Function as a Service (FaaS) has been gaining popularity as a way to deploy computations to serverless backends in the cloud. This paradigm shifts the complexity of allocating and provisioning resources to the cloud provider, which has to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Mohammad Shahrad , Rodrigo Fonseca , Íñigo Goiri , Gohar Chaudhry , Paul Batum , Jason Cooke , Eduardo Laureano , Colby Tresness , Mark Russinovich , Ricardo Bianchini