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Enabling Serverless Research with the vHive Open-Source Ecosystem

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Boris GrotUniversity of Edinburgh

Date/Time: Jun 01 16:00:00

Location: Teams: https://tinyurl.com/2u8yaxsy

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Abstract:
Serverless (also known as Function-as-a-Service) has emerged as the next dominant cloud architecture. In serverless, developers structure their cloud application as a collection of stateless functions that execute on-demand. Despite accepted benefits to both developers and cloud providers, the serverless model brings new challenges calling for cross-layer characterization and optimization. Alas, today's state-of-the-art serverless stacks are propriety to each individual cloud provider, which impedes research in this space.
In this talk, I will overview the serverless model and introduce the vHive open-source ecosystem developed at the Edinburgh Architecture and Systems (EASE) Lab. vHive includes a complete serverless stack, a suite of serverless workloads and robust tools for performance analysis and debug, which together enable meaningful serverless research at any scale. I will describe two vHive-enabled projects targeting performance analysis and optimization across the system stack that underscore both challenges and opportunities in today's serverless deployments.

Talk URL: https://tinyurl.com/2u8yaxsy

Speaker Bio:
Boris Grot is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he leads the EASE Lab. His research focuses on understanding and alleviating efficiency bottlenecks and capability shortcomings of processing platforms for data-intensive applications. Boris is a member of the MICRO Hall of Fame and a recipient of multiple awards for his research. Boris holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Host Faculty: Arkaprava Basu