Program (preliminary)


Date: December 11 (Monday)

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

Workshop schedule (preliminary, subject to change)  
1:30pm Welcome and invited talk
1:35pm-2:05pm WoSC9 keynote: Short-lived Clouds - 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
  1 - Characterizing AFCL Serverless Scientific Workflows in Federated FaaS
  2 - Scaling a Variant Calling Genomics Pipeline with FaaS
  3 - ProFaaStinate: Delaying Serverless Function Calls to Optimize Platform Performance
  4 - X86 vs. ARM: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Serverless Performance
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
  5 - Efficiently Detecting Performance Changes in FaaS Application Releases
  6 - Leveraging Intra-Function Parallelism in Serverless Machine Learning
  7 - When Serverless Computing Meets Different Degrees of Customization for DNN Inference
  8 - On Serving Image Classification Models
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
  9 - Nubes: Object-Oriented Programming for Stateful Serverless Functions
  10 - GreenCourier: Carbon-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Functions
  11 - GIRAFF: Reverse Auction-based Placement for Fog Functions heterogenous hardware
5:10pm - 5:20pm break
5:20pm-6:10pm Session 4 - Demos and short talks (2x5min + 5min Q&A + 3x5min + 5min Q&A)
  12 - Simulate Data-Aware Serverless Workflows in Federated FaaS with SimLess (demo)
  13 - Serverless Edge Computing: challenges and opportunities stemming from heterogenous hardware (demo)
  14 - Databaseless Queries: Using Calcite as Research Testbed for Hybrid Cloud Data Integration (short talk)
  15 - Engineering Serverless Workflows With Interoperable BaaS Services (short talk)
  16 - Generating Synthetic Ansible Programs with Probabilistic Methods (short talk)
6:10pm Workshop summary
6:30pm End of Workshop