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Serverless platforms have attracted attention due to their promise of elasticity, low cost, and fast deployment. Instead of using a fixed virtual machine (VM) infrastructure, which can incur considerable costs to operate and run, serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Michael Wawrzoniak , Ingo Müller , Rodrigo Bruno , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

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

Modern FaaS systems perform well in the case of repeat executions when function working sets stay small. However, these platforms are less effective when applied to more complex, large-scale and dynamic workloads. In this paper, we…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-04 James Cadden , Thomas Unger , Yara Awad , Han Dong , Orran Krieger , Jonathan Appavoo

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

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 increasing use of hardware processing accelerators tailored for specific applications, such as the Vision Processing Unit (VPU) for image recognition, further increases developers' configuration, development, and management overhead.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Sebastian Werner , Trever Schirmer

Serverless computing has gained popularity due to its cost efficiency, ease of deployment, and enhanced scalability. However, in serverless environments, servers are initiated only after receiving a request, leading to increased response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Vincent Hsieh , Jerry Chou

While the first generation of cloud computing systems mitigated the job of system administrators, the next generation of cloud computing systems is emerging to mitigate the burden for cloud developers -- facilitating the development of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

This review report discusses the cold start latency in serverless inference and existing solutions. It particularly reviews the ServerlessLLM method, a system designed to address the cold start problem in serverless inference for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Himel Ghosh

Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varad Kulkarni , Nikhil Reddy , Tuhin Khare , Abhinandan S. Prasad , Chitra Babu , Yogesh Simmhan

The function-as-a-service (FaaS) paradigm is envisioned as the next generation of cloud computing systems that mitigate the burden for cloud-native application developers by abstracting them from cloud resource management. However, it does…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a new wave of edge computing due to the need to process data on the edge, closer to where it is being produced and attempting to move away from a cloud-centric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Hamza Javed , Adel N. Toosi , Mohammad S. Aslanpour

Recently, serverless computing has gained recognition as a leading cloud computing method. Providing a solution that does not require direct server and infrastructure management, this technology has addressed many traditional model problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohsen Ghorbian , Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

Existing serverless workflow orchestration systems are predominantly designed for a single-cloud FaaS system, leading to vendor lock-in. This restricts performance optimization, cost reduction, and availability of applications. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rui Li , Jianfei Liu , Zhilin Yang , Peichang Shi , Guodong Yi , Huaimin Wang

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

Data processing systems are increasingly deployed in the cloud. While monolithic systems run fully on virtual servers, recent systems embrace cloud infrastructure and utilize the disaggregation of compute and storage to scale them…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Thomas Bodner , Theo Radig , David Justen , Daniel Ritter , Tilmann Rabl

Serverless computing promises a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solution for running data-intensive applications and workflows in the heterogeneous and limited-resource environment of the Edge-Cloud Continuum. However, building and…

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