COMPASS Talks
The Computing Platforms Seminar Series (COMPASS) is focused on talks by industry and academia around the general topic of computing platforms.
Towards (Sub-) Millisecond Serverless Computing: Characterization, Optimization and Reflection
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 collectively 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.
Shortbio:
Haibo Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he founds and directs the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS). His main research areas are operating systems, distributed systems and the application of formal methods. 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 of contributed articles and co-chairs the Regional Special Sections of Communications of the ACM, co-chairs the program committee of EuroSys 2025, and chairs the inaugural technical steering committee of OpenHarmony, an open-source operating system deployed on hundreds of millions of devices. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.