Towards Fast and Resource-Efficient Serverless Computing with vHive

Speaker: Prof. Dmitrii Ustiugov
         Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
         Singapore

Title:  "Towards Fast and Resource-Efficient Serverless Computing
        with vHive"

Date:   Thursday, 4 May 2023

Time:   4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:  Room 1409 (near lift 25/26), HKUST


Abstract:

Serverless clouds boost developer productivity by taking over cloud
infrastructure management, allowing the developers to focus on their
services business logic. This labor division opens opportunities for
systems researchers to innovate in serverless computing. However, leading
serverless providers rely on proprietary infrastructure ill-suited for
systems research in academia. In this talk, I will introduce vHive, a
full-stack open-source ecosystem for serverless clouds benchmarking,
experimentation, and innovation; which has been used by 30+ universities
and companies world-wide. To make the case for vHives utility, I will
discuss our latest works in software-hardware co-design for fast and
resource-efficient serverless systems, including the innovations we
propose in cold-start optimisation of serverless functions, hardware
support for serverless functions colocation, and the exploration
methodology of cluster-level scheduling policies in a small-scale,
research setting.


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Biography:

Dmitrii is an Assistant Professor at NTU Singapore. Previously, he was a
Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich. Dmitrii received a Ph.D. from the
University of Edinburgh and BSc and MSc degrees from the MIPT. Dmitriis
research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Systems and
Architecture with a current focus on support for cloud and serverless
computing.


Dmitrii would be also open to meet all interested faculty/postdocs/students
before or after the talk.