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Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

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

Growing data volumes and velocities are driving exciting new methods across the sciences in which data analytics and machine learning are increasingly intertwined with research. These new methods require new approaches for scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Ryan Chard , Tyler J. Skluzacek , Zhuozhao Li , Yadu Babuji , Anna Woodard , Ben Blaiszik , Steven Tuecke , Ian Foster , Kyle Chard

Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Natalie Carl , 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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually offer composition services for such workflows, they do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

As an emerging cloud computing deployment paradigm, serverless computing is gaining traction due to its efficiency and ability to harness on-demand cloud resources. However, a significant hurdle remains in the form of the cold start…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Cheryl Lee , Zhouruixing Zhu , Tianyi Yang , Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Pinjia He , Michael R. Lyu

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Serverless edge computing adopts an event-based paradigm that provides back-end services on an as-used basis, resulting in efficient resource utilization. To improve the end-to-end latency and revenue, service providers need to optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Chen , Manuel Herrera , Ge Zheng , Liqiao Xia , Zhengyang Ling , Jiangtao Wang

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

Increasing popularity of the serverless computing approach has led to the emergence of new cloud infrastructures working in Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) model like AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, or Azure Container Instances. They introduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Krzysztof Burkat , Maciej Pawlik , Bartosz Balis , Maciej Malawski , Karan Vahi , Mats Rynge , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Ewa Deelman

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

Serverless computing is transforming cloud application development, but the performance-cost trade-offs of control plane designs remain poorly understood due to a lack of open, cross-platform benchmarks and detailed system analyses. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Leonid Kondrashov , Boxi Zhou , Hancheng Wang , Dmitrii Ustiugov

One key to enabling high-performance serverless computing is to mitigate cold-starts. Current solutions utilize a warm pool to keep function alive: a warm-start can be analogous to a CPU cache-hit. However, modern cache has multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Chu Qiao , Cong Wang , Zhenkai Zhang , Yuede Ji , Xing Gao

Serverless computing has transformed cloud application deployment by introducing a fine-grained, event-driven execution model that abstracts away infrastructure management. Its on-demand nature makes it especially appealing for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chanh Nguyen , Monowar Bhuyan , Erik Elmroth

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Angel C. Chavez-Moreno , Cristina L. Abad

Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to efficiently use the large pools of unused memory and increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Marcin Copik , Marcin Chrapek , Larissa Schmid , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for a pay-as-you-go model more suited to variable and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Pengyu Zhou , Konstantin Taranov , Torsten Hoefler

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

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