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This paper introduces a novel computational approach for offloading sensor data processing tasks to servers in edge networks for better accuracy and makespan. A task is assigned with one of several offloading options, each comprises a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Negar Erfaniantaghvayi , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kevin Chan , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that can reduce costs for cloud providers and their customers. However, serverless cloud platforms have stringent performance requirements (due to the need to execute short…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 S. Qi , H. Moore , N. Hogade , D. Milojicic , C. Bash , S. Pasricha

Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chen Chen , Zihan Jia , Andrea Sabbioni , Reza Farahani , Lei Jiao

This paper discusses recent research that aims to enable computation close to data, an approach we broadly call processing-in-memory (PIM). PIM places computation mechanisms in or near where the data is stored (i.e., inside memory chips or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Onur Mutlu , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Rachata Ausavarungnirun , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Geraldo F. Oliveira

The Function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing model has recently seen significant growth especially for highly scalable, event-driven applications. The easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient fine-grained billing of FaaS is highly attractive to big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yuze Li , Kevin Assogba , Abhijit Tripathy , Moiz Arif , M. Mustafa Rafique , Ali R. Butt , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

The cold-start issue is the challenge when we talk about recommender systems, especially in the case when we do not have the past interaction data of new users or new items. Content-based features or hybrid solutions are common as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yushang Zhao , Xinyue Han , Qian Leng , Qianyi Sun , Haotian Lyu , Chengrui Zhou

CPUs are critical for LLM serving due to their availability, cost efficiency, and edge applicability. However, efficient CPU serving is hindered by conflicting prefill/decode resource demands under non-disaggregated deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Juntao Zhao , Jiuru Li , Chuan Wu

Serverless computing has become very popular today since it largely simplifies cloud programming. Developers do not need to longer worry about provisioning or operating servers, and they pay only for the compute resources used when their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pedro García-López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Simon Shillaker , Peter Pietzuch , David Breitgand , Gil Vernik , Pierre Sutra , Tristan Tarrant , Ana Juan Ferrer

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

The consistent demand for better performance has lead to innovations at hardware and microarchitectural levels. 3D stacking of memory and logic dies delivers an order of magnitude improvement in available memory bandwidth. The price paid…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Karthik Rao , William Song , Yorai Wardi , Sudhakar Yalamanchili

Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian

High-quality labeled datasets are crucial for training and evaluating foundation models in software engineering, but creating them is often prohibitively expensive and labor-intensive. We introduce SPICE, a scalable, automated pipeline for…

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

Recent Serverless workloads tend to be largescaled/CPU-memory intensive, such as DL, graph applications, that require dynamic memory-to-compute resources provisioning. Meanwhile, recent solutions seek to design page management strategies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuze Li , Shunyu Yao

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as a biologically plausible alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have demonstrated advantages in terms of energy efficiency, temporal processing, and biological plausibility. However, SNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xinyu Luo , Kecheng Chen , Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun , Chris Xing Tian , Arindam Basu , Haoliang Li

We show in this work that memory intensive computations can result in severe performance problems due to off-chip memory access and CPU-GPU context switch overheads in a wide range of deep learning models. For this problem, current…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zhen Zheng , Pengzhan Zhao , Guoping Long , Feiwen Zhu , Kai Zhu , Wenyi Zhao , Lansong Diao , Jun Yang , Wei Lin

Serverless is an attractive computing model that offers seamless scalability and elasticity; it takes the infrastructure management burden away from users and enables a pay-as-you-use billing model. As a result, serverless is becoming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Serhii Ivanenko , Vasyl Lanko , Rudi Horn , Vojin Jovanovic , Rodrigo Bruno

The increasing popularity of machine learning solutions puts increasing restrictions on this field if it is to penetrate more aspects of life. In particular, energy efficiency and speed of operation is crucial, inter alia in portable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Dawid Przyczyna , Sébastien Pecqueur , Dominique Vuillaume , Konrad Szaciłowski

The performance of today's in-memory indexes is bottlenecked by the memory latency/bandwidth wall. Processing-in-memory (PIM) is an emerging approach that potentially mitigates this bottleneck, by enabling low-latency memory access whose…

Collaborative Edge Computing (CEC) is a new edge computing paradigm that enables neighboring edge servers to share computational resources with each other. Although CEC can enhance the utilization of computational resources, it still…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Tony Q. S. Quek