Journal
2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD ENGINEERING (IC2E 2022)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 79-84Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/IC2E55432.2022.00016
Keywords
serverless engineering; accelerated computing
Funding
- AWS Cloud Credit for Research program
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This paper presents an initial design and implementation of HARDLESS, an extensible and generalized serverless computing architecture that supports workloads for arbitrary hardware accelerators. It demonstrates how HARDLESS can scale across different commodity hardware accelerators and support a variety of workloads using the same execution and programming model common in serverless computing today.
The increasing use of hardware processing accelerators tailored for specific applications, such as the Vision Processing Unit (VPU) for image recognition, further increases developers' configuration, development, and management overhead. Developers have successfully used fully automated elastic cloud services such as serverless computing to counter these additional efforts and shorten development cycles for applications running on CPUs. Unfortunately, current cloud solutions do not yet provide these simplifications for applications that require hardware acceleration. However, as the development of specialized hardware acceleration continues to provide performance and cost improvements, it will become increasingly important to enable ease of use in the cloud. In this paper, we present an initial design and implementation of HARDLESS, an extensible and generalized serverless computing architecture that can support workloads for arbitrary hardware accelerators. We show how HARDLESS can scale across different commodity hardware accelerators and support a variety of workloads using the same execution and programming model common in serverless computing today.
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