Exploring FPGA Acceleration for Distributed Serverless Computing

Ziyi Yang, Suhaib A. Fahmy
December 2023
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Abstract

Serverless computing has become a popular cloud computing paradigm. However, its deployment abstraction entails significant performance overheads. We explore the potential for enabling serverless computing on FPGAs and present some early results that show the concurrency and scalability benefits on a stream processing workload. The FPGA enables flows of network data to flow directly into accelerators, which is beneficial for scenarios involving large packets and multiple request streams.

Type
Conference paper
Publication
PhD Forum Poster In International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT)
High Performance Computing
Ziyi Yang
Ziyi Yang
PhD Student

My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.

Suhaib A. Fahmy
Suhaib A. Fahmy
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Suhaib is Principal Investigator of the Accelerated Connected Computing Lab (ACCL) at KAUST. His research explores hardware acceleration of complex algorithms and the integration of these accelerators within wider computing infrastructure.

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