The workshop is co-located with EuroSys 2024 and will be conducted in person (no remote participants), bringing the experts from academia and industry to facilitate research in serverless systems in Royal Olympic Hotel (room to be announced).
Proceedings can be found here.
Benvenuti a tutti!
Abstract
Serverless computing promises cost-efficiency and elasticity for high-productive software development. To achieve this, the serverless computing platform must address two challenges: strong isolation between function instances, and extremely low startup latency. In this talk, I will first present a characterization of state-of-the-art serverless platform and derive several key metrics, which collectly forms a systematic methodology and a benchmark called severlessbench (v1 and v2). Then, I will show how serverless platform can be optimized for (sub-)millisecond startup latency for both normal and confidential serverless computing on CPU-only and CPU-XPU platforms. Finally, I will give a reflection on the gap between serverless research and real-world systems and present an outlook on future serverless computing.
Bio
Haibo Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he directs the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS). His main research areas are operating systems and distributed systems. He received Best Paper Awards from SOSP, ASPLOS, EuroSys and VEE, Test of Time Award from DSN, Best Paper Honorable Mention and Research Highlight Award from SIGMOD, Honorable Mention of The Dennis M. Ritchie Thesis Award (Advisor) from SIGOPS. He currently chairs ACM SIGOPS, serves on the editorial board member and co-chair of Special Sections of Communications of the ACM, Program Committee of SOSP 2023/OSDI 2024, PC co-chair of EuroSys 2025, and the inaugural technical steering committee chair of OpenHarmony, an open-source operating system deployed on hundreds of millions of devices. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Enjoy your καφές!
Work in Progress: Quantifying the System Tax in Serverless Clouds. Leonid Kondrashov, Dmitrii Ustiugov (NTU Singapore)
Work in Progress: A Deep Dive into Autoscaling for Cloud-Based OLAP. Michail Georgoulakis Misegiannis, Jana Giceva (Technical University of Munich)
Sandboxing Functions for Efficient and Secure Multi-tenant Serverless Deployments. Charalampos Mainas, Ioannis Plakas, Georgios Ntoutsos, Anastassios Nanos (Nubis PC)
Serverless Confidential Containers: Challenges and Opportunities. Carlos Segarra (Imperial College London); Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum, Daniele Buono (IBM Research); Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)
Enjoy your lunch and give your cloud a break.
Composing Microservices and Serverless for Load Resilience. Dilina Dehigama, Shyam Jesalpura, Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh); Marios Kogias (Imperial College London); Antonios Katsarakis (Huawei Research); Rakesh Kumar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
CoFaaS: Automatic Transformation-based Consolidation of Serverless Functions. Truls Asheim, Magnus Jahre, Rakesh Kumar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Work in Progress: Pay-as-you-Go Resource Isolation. Miguel Lourenço (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa); Marios Kogias (Imperial College London); Rodrigo Bruno (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
Work in Progress: Imaginary Machines: A Serverless Model for Cloud Applications. Michael Wawrzoniak (ETH Zurich); Rodrigo Bruno (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa); Ana Klimovic, Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
Serverless End Game: Disaggregation enabling Transparency. Pedro Garcia Lopez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili); Aleksander Slominski (IBM Research); Bernard Metzler (IBM Research, Zurich); Michael Berhendt (IBM); Simon Shillaker (Imperial College London)
Serverless? RISC more! Roberto Starc, Tom Kuchler (ETH Zurich); Michael Giardino (Huawei); Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich)
Eυχαριστώ!
Serverless has emerged as the next dominant cloud architecture and paradigm due to its elastic scalability and flexible billing model. In serverless, developers focus on writing their application’s business logic, e.g., as a set of functions connected in a workflow, whereas providers take responsibility for dynamically managing cloud resources, e.g., by scaling the number of instances for each deployed function. This division of responsibilities opens new opportunities for systems researchers to innovate in serverless computing. As a new paradigm, serverless computing calls for innovation across the whole deep distributed stack of modern datacenters, including software and hardware infrastructure to combine high performance, ease of programming, efficiency of datacenter resource usage, among others.
The 2nd Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies (SESAME) aims to bring together industry and academia to discuss serverless computing and emerging cloud computing models. The goal of the workshop is to foster the discussion on the design and implementation of serverless platforms (i.e., how to deploy, optimize, and manage serverless infrastructure), and leverage their full potential (i.e., what types of applications and eco-systems of services need to exist to support serverless computing). The workshop is designed to ensure that industry and academia come together to discuss early ideas and promote cutting-edge research.
Please note that the workshop will take place in person, hence at least one author of each accepted submission must be present in person.
Non-traditional topics, cross-cutting research, and controversial ideas are especially encouraged.
Submission Formats
The workshop will accept short papers and work-in-progress (WIP) talks:
- Short papers allow authors to present contributions in a short format of up to 6 pages. If accepted, short papers will have published proceedings via the ACM Digital Library upon the agreement of their authors (opting out is possible upon request);
- Work-In-Progress (WIP) papers are submitted as a 2-page extended abstract without published proceedings.
The dual submission format is designed to maximize participation and engagement. In particular, the dual format accommodates industry participants who may have limited resources to spend on writing the draft and the authors that may aim to publish a full conference paper later while simultaneously ensuring the maximizing benefit to the audience. The workshop will use a double-blind submission policy.
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