Burst Computing model and its comparison with FaaS

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Enginyeria de la Seguretat Informàtica i Intel·ligència Artificial

APS: No

Title in different languages: Burst Computing i la seva comparativa amb FaaS

Abstract: FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) has gained significant popularity over the last few years, becoming a cloud service used by a large number of users for various workloads. In a quick and general definition, FaaS allows us to execute code snippets (functions) in the cloud without worrying about the underlying infrastructure (system administration, resource provisioning...). However, up to the current moment, FaaS only allows the atomic activation (and execution) of functions, without including notions of parallel execution of function groups. The proposed new model ”Burst computing” will address current limitations of FaaS, allowing: (1) trip-wire mechanisms for instant activation to launch massive groups of functions with guaranteed parallelism, (2) mechanisms for workload and/or data partitioning using unique identifiers within the group, and (3) group communication services and data aggregation, transparently leveraging node locality.. This thesis will focus on analyzing and proposing solutions for the three aforementioned improvements, and implementing a usable solution for the first two on the popular open-source FaaS platform Apache OpenWhisk.

Subject: Enginyeria informàtica

Academic year: 2022-2023

Language: en

Work's public defense date: 2023-09-15

Subject areas: Computer engineering

Student: Molina Giménez, Enrique

Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

Creation date in repository: 2024-04-09

Keywords: Cloud, FaaS, serverless, burst, group invocation, Openwhisk

Title in original language: Burst Computing model and its comparison with FaaS

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Project director: García López, Pedro

Embargo end date: 2025-01-01