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Lucien Ngale
dblp:290/7449
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 70% Memory systems · 30% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloud and datacenter computing › serverless computing
function-as-a-service |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platforms · EuroSys 2021 |
Memory systems › cache
in-memory caching |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platforms · EuroSys 2021 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
serverless computing |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platforms · EuroSys 2021 |
Cloud and datacenter computing › serverless computing
cold start mitigation |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platforms · EuroSys 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
memory overprovisioning exploitation · 0.5machine learning · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | OFC: an opportunistic caching system for FaaS platformsabstractCloud applications based on the "Functions as a Service" (FaaS) paradigm have become very popular. Yet, due to their stateless nature, they must frequently interact with an external data store, which limits their performance. To mitigate this issue, we introduce OFC, a transparent, vertically and horizontally elastic in-memory caching system for FaaS platforms, distributed over the worker nodes. OFC provides these benefits cost-effectively by exploiting two common sources of resource waste: (i) most cloud tenants overprovision the memory resources reserved for their functions because their footprint is non-trivially input-dependent and (ii) FaaS providers keep function sandboxes alive for several minutes to avoid cold starts. Using machine learning models adjusted for typical function input data categories (e.g., multimedia formats), OFC estimates the actual memory resources required by each function invocation and hoards the remaining capacity to feed the cache. We build our OFC prototype based on enhancements to the OpenWhisk FaaS platform, the Swift persistent object store, and the RAM-Cloud in-memory store. Using a diverse set of workloads, we show that OFC improves by up to 82 % and 60 % respectively the execution time of single-stage and pipelined functions. Djob Mvondo, Mathieu Bacou, Kevin Nguetchouang, Lucien Ngale, Stéphane Pouget, Josiane Kouam, Renaud Lachaize, Jinho Hwang, Timothy Wood 0001, Daniel Hagimont, Noel De Palma, Bernabe Batchakui, Alain Tchana |
EuroSys | 4 |