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Benchmarking parallelism in FaaS platforms

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    Identifier: imarina:9218788
  • Authors:

    Barcelona-Pons D
    García-López P
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Barcelona-Pons D; García-López P
    Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    URV's Author/s: Barcelona Pons, Daniel / García López, Pedro Antonio
    Keywords: Serverless Parallelism Faas Benchmark parallelism faas benchmark
    Abstract: Serverless computing has seen a myriad of work exploring its potential. Some systems tackle Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) properties on automatic elasticity and scale to run highly-parallel computing jobs. However, they focus on specific platforms and convey that their ideas can be extrapolated to any FaaS runtime. An important question arises: do all FaaS platforms fit parallel computations? In this paper, we argue that not all of them provide the necessary means to host highly-parallel applications. To validate our hypothesis, we create a comparative framework and categorize the architectures of four cloud FaaS offerings, emphasizing parallel performance. We attest and extend this description with an empirical experiment that consists in plotting in deep detail the evolution of a parallel computing job on each service. The analysis of our results evinces that FaaS is not inherently good for parallel computations and architectural differences across platforms are decisive to categorize their performance. A key insight is the importance of virtualization technologies and the scheduling approach of FaaS platforms. Parallelism improves with lighter virtualization and proactive scheduling due to finer resource allocation and faster elasticity. This causes some platforms like AWS and IBM to perform well for highly-parallel computations, while others such as Azure present difficulties to achieve the required parallelism degree. Consequently, the information in this paper becomes of special interest to help users choose the most adequate infrastructure for their parallel applications.
    Thematic Areas: Software Saúde coletiva Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Hardware and architecture Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias i Comunicação e informação Computer science, theory & methods Computer networks and communications Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciência da computação
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: daniel.barcelona@urv.cat daniel.barcelona@urv.cat pedro.garcia@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-6051-9424 0000-0002-6051-9424 0000-0002-9848-1492
    Last page: 284
    Record's date: 2024-07-27
    Journal volume: 124
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X21001990?via%3Dihub
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal Of Escience. 124 268-284
    APA: Barcelona-Pons D; García-López P (2021). Benchmarking parallelism in FaaS platforms. Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal Of Escience, 124(), 268-284. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2021.06.005
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2021.06.005
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2021
    First page: 268
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science, Theory & Methods,Hardware and Architecture,Software
    Serverless
    Parallelism
    Faas
    Benchmark
    parallelism
    faas
    benchmark
    Software
    Saúde coletiva
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Matemática / probabilidade e estatística
    Interdisciplinar
    Hardware and architecture
    Engenharias iv
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias i
    Comunicação e informação
    Computer science, theory & methods
    Computer networks and communications
    Ciências sociais aplicadas i
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciência da computação
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