Program


Date: December 11 (Monday)

Time: 1:30pm-6:50pm (could be extended to 7pm)

Video recordings: playlist

Workshop schedule      
1:30pm Welcome (Aleksander Slominski and Pedro García Lopez)   🎥
  Online poll questions: What are the main challenges in serverless computing? What is the future of serverless computing? 👨🏻‍🏫  
1:35pm-2:05pm WoSC9 keynote: Short-lived Clouds (Javier Picorel) - 25min + 5 min Q&A 👨🏻‍🏫 🎥
2:10pm Session 1 - 2 papers (2x10min + 5min Q&A) and 2 papers (2x10min + 5min Q&A) and 10min break   🎥
  Session chair: Aleksander Slominski    
  1 - Characterizing AFCL Serverless Scientific Workflows in Federated FaaS (Sashko Ristov) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  2 - Scaling a Variant Calling Genomics Pipeline with FaaS (Aitor Arjona) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  3 - ProFaaStinate: Delaying Serverless Function Calls to Optimize Platform Performance (Trever Schirmer) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  4 - X86 vs. ARM: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Serverless Performance (Xinghan Chen) 👨🏻‍🏫  
3pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break    
3:30pm Session 2 - 2 papers (2x10min + 5min Q&A) and 2 papers (2x10min + 5min Q&A) and 10min break   🎥
  Session chair: Luis Antunes Veiga    
  5 - Efficiently Detecting Performance Changes in FaaS Application Releases (Martin Grambow) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  6 - Leveraging Intra-Function Parallelism in Serverless Machine Learning (Ionut Predoaia) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  7 - When Serverless Computing Meets Different Degrees of Customization for DNN Inference (Yoonseo Hur) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  8 - On Serving Image Classification Models (Aurora González-Vidal) 👨🏻‍🏫  
4:20pm - 4:30pm Break    
4:30pm Session 3 - 2 papers (2x10min + 5min Q&A) and 1 paper (10min + 5min Q&A) and 10min break   🎥
  Session chair: Pedro García Lopez    
  9 - Nubes: Object-Oriented Programming for Stateful Serverless Functions (Luca De Martini) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  10 - GreenCourier: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Functions (Mohak Chadha) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  11 - GIRAFF: Reverse Auction-based Placement for Fog Functions heterogenous hardware (Volodia Parol-Guarino)   🎥
5:10pm - 5:20pm Break    
5:20pm-6:30m Session 4 - Demos and short talks (5x5min + 5min Q&A + 4x5min + 5min Q&A)   🎥
  Session chair: Aleksander Slominski    
  12 - Simulate Data-Aware Serverless Workflows in Federated FaaS with SimLess (Sashko Ristov, demo) 👨🏻‍🏫 🎥
  13 - Serverless Edge Computing: challenges and opportunities stemming from heterogenous hardware (Tomasz Szydlo, demo) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  14 - Databaseless Queries: Using Calcite as Research Testbed for Hybrid Cloud Data Integration (Josef Spillner, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  15 - Engineering Serverless Workflows With Interoperable BaaS Services (Sashko Ristov, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  16 - Generating Synthetic Ansible Programs with Probabilistic Methods (Nathanael Nussbaumer, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  17 - AI for Smart Environments and Dimensionalty Reduction (Antonio Martinez Ibarra, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫 🎥
  18 - Optimizing Inference for Small Models in Memory-Limited GPU Environments (Pol Garcia Recasens, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫 🎥
  19 - FL-based automated & real-time cyber-attack detection (Pablo Fernández Saura, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫  
  20 - Severless Confidential Containers: Challenges and Opportunities (Carlos Segarra, short talk) 👨🏻‍🏫  
6:30pm Workshop summary    
6:50pm End of Workshop