Disaggregated GPU Acceleration for Serverless Applications
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Henrique Fingler, Zhiting Zhu, Esther Yoon, Zhipeng Jia, 
Emmett Witchel, Christopher J. RossbachAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
Serverless platforms have been attracting applications from traditional platforms because infrastructure management responsibilities are shifted from users to providers. Many applications well-suited to serverless environments could leverage GPU acceleration to enhance their performance. Unfortunately, current serverless platforms do not expose GPUs to serverless applications.
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