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IoT applications increasingly rely on on-device AI accelerators to ensure high performance, especially in low-connectivity and safety-critical scenarios. However, the limited on-chip memory of these accelerators forces inference runtimes to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nathan Ng , Walid A. Hanafy , Prashanthi Kadambi , Balachandra Sunil , Ayush Gupta , David Irwin , Yogesh Simmhan , Prashant Shenoy

Data is found everywhere, from health and human infrastructure to the surge of sensors and the proliferation of internet-connected devices. To meet this challenge, the data engineering field has expanded significantly in recent years in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mills Staylor , Arup Kumar Sarker , Gregor von Laszewski , Geoffrey Fox , Yue Cheng , Judy Fox

While (1) serverless computing is emerging as a popular form of cloud execution, datacenters are going through major changes: (2) storage dissaggregation in the system infrastructure level and (3) integration of domain-specific accelerators…

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

As more applications are being moved to the Cloud thanks to serverless computing, it is increasingly necessary to support the native life cycle execution of those applications in the data center. But existing cloud orchestration systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Aitor Arjona , Pedro García-López , Josep Sampé , Aleksander Slominski , Lionel Villard

With the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, Serverless Computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has witnessed growing popularity across various application domains. FaaS enables an application to be decomposed into fine-grained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mohak Chadha , Paul Wieland , Michael Gerndt

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, massive amounts of raw data is being generated. The latency, cost, and other challenges in cloud-based IoT data processing have driven the adoption of Edge and Fog computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Shivananda R Poojara , Chinmaya Kumar Dehury , Pelle Jakovits , Satish Narayana Srirama

Enterprises are increasingly adopting serverless computing to enhance scalability, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. However, this shift introduces new responsibilities and necessitates a distinct set of skills for practitioners. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Muhammad Hamza , Vy Kauppinen , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Wardah Naeem Awan , Kari Smolander

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

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

The field of distributed machine learning (ML) faces increasing demands for scalable and cost-effective training solutions, particularly in the context of large, complex models. Serverless computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amine Barrak , Fabio Petrillo , Fehmi Jaafar

As more applications are being moved to the Cloud thanks to serverless computing, it is increasingly necessary to support native life cycle execution of those applications in the data center. But existing systems either focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Pedro García-López , Aitor Arjona , Josep Sampe , Aleksander Slominski , Lionel Villard

The increased use of micro-services to build web applications has spurred the rapid growth of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) or serverless computing platforms. While FaaS simplifies provisioning and scaling for application developers, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Arjun Singhvi , Kevin Houck , Arjun Balasubramanian , Mohammed Danish Shaikh , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

The application of serverless computing for alignment of RNA-sequences can improve many existing bioinformatics workflows by reducing operational costs and execution times. This work analyzes the applicability of serverless services for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Piotr Kica , Michał Orzechowski , Maciej Malawski

Access transparency means that both local and remote resources are accessed using identical operations. With transparency, unmodified single-machine applications could run over disaggregated compute, storage, and memory resources. Hiding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Aitor Arjona , Gerard Finol , Pedro Garcia-Lopez

The appeal of serverless (FaaS) has triggered a growing interest on how to use it in data-intensive applications such as ETL, query processing, or machine learning (ML). Several systems exist for training large-scale ML models on top of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiawei Jiang , Shaoduo Gan , Yue Liu , Fanlin Wang , Gustavo Alonso , Ana Klimovic , Ankit Singla , Wentao Wu , Ce Zhang

In today's production machine learning (ML) systems, models are continuously trained, improved, and deployed. ML design and training are becoming a continuous workflow of various tasks that have dynamic resource demands. Serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ahsan Ali , Syed Zawad , Paarijaat Aditya , Istemi Ekin Akkus , Ruichuan Chen , Feng Yan

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

The serverless computing ecosystem is growing due to interest by software engineers. Beside Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) systems, developer-oriented tools such as deployment and debugging frameworks as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Josef Spillner

Current serverless platforms struggle to optimize resource utilization due to their dynamic and fine-grained nature. Conventional techniques like overcommitment and autoscaling fall short, often sacrificing utilization for practicability or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Qingyuan Liu , Yanning Yang , Dong Du , Yubin Xia , Ping Zhang , Jia Feng , James Larus , Haibo Chen