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Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

In recent years, serverless computing, especially Function as a Service (FaaS), is rapidly growing in popularity as a cloud programming model. The serverless computing model provides an intuitive interface for developing cloud-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Aristotelis Peri , Michail Tsenos , Vana Kalogeraki

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a promising edge computing execution model but requires secure sandboxing mechanisms to isolate workloads from multiple tenants on constrained infrastructure. Although Docker containers are lightweight and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Felix Moebius , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

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 computing significantly alters software development by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling rapid, modular, event-driven deployments. Despite its benefits, the distinct characteristics of serverless functions, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Amine Barrak , Emna Ksontini , Ridouane Atike , Fehmi Jaafar

Modern HPC workload managers and their careful tuning contribute to the high utilization of HPC clusters. However, due to inevitable uncertainty it is impossible to completely avoid node idleness. Although such idle slots are usually too…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Bartłomiej Przybylski , Maciej Pawlik , Paweł Żuk , Bartłomiej Łagosz , Maciej Malawski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Serverless computing has emerged as a new compelling paradigm for the deployment of applications and services. It represents an evolution of cloud programming models, abstractions, and platforms, and is a testament to the maturity and wide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Ioana Baldini , Paul Castro , Kerry Chang , Perry Cheng , Stephen Fink , Vatche Ishakian , Nick Mitchell , Vinod Muthusamy , Rodric Rabbah , Aleksander Slominski , Philippe Suter

Serverless computing enables a new way of building and scaling cloud applications by allowing developers to write fine-grained serverless or cloud functions. The execution duration of a cloud function is typically short-ranging from a few…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Yuqi Fu , Li Liu , Haoliang Wang , Yue Cheng , Songqing Chen

We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

The broad development and usage of edge devices has highlighted the importance of creating resilient and computationally advanced environments. When working with edge devices these desiderata are usually achieved through replication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Alexander Droob , Daniel Morratz , Frederik Langkilde Jakobsen , Jacob Carstensen , Magnus Mathiesen , Rune Bohnstedt , Michele Albano , Sergio Moreschini , Davide Taibi

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

Serverless computing and stream processing represent two dominant paradigms for event-driven data processing, yet both make assumptions that render them inefficient for short-running, lightweight, and unpredictable streams that require…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Natalie Carl , Niklas Kowallik , Constantin Stahl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Next generation technologies such as smart healthcare, self-driving cars, and smart cities require new approaches to deal with the network traffic generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as efficient programming models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Quoc Lap Trieu , Bahman Javadi , Jim Basilakis , Adel N. Toosi

We describe a system for serverless computing where users, programs, and the underlying platform share a common representation of a computation: a deterministic procedure, run in an environment of well-specified data or the outputs of other…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhan Deng , Akshay Srivatsan , Sebastian Ingino , Francis Chua , Yasmine Mitchell , Matthew Vilaysack , Keith Winstein

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

Cloud computing offers on-demand, scalable computing and storage, and has become an essential resource for the analyses of big biomedical data. The usual approach to cloud computing requires users to reserve and provision virtual servers.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-01 Dimitar Kumanov , Ling-Hong Hung , Wes Lloyd , Ka Yee Yeung

Serverless computing offers attractive scalability, elasticity and cost-effectiveness. However, constraints on memory, CPU and function runtime have hindered its adoption for data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML) workloads.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption due to its high scalability and flexible, pay-as-you-go billing model. In serverless, developers structure their services as a collection of functions, sporadically invoked by various events like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Plamen Petrov , Marios Kogias , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot

Serverless functions provide high levels of parallelism, short startup times, and "pay-as-you-go" billing. These attributes make them a natural substrate for data analytics workflows. However, the impossibility of direct communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Germán T. Eizaguirre , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Pedro García-López