Nimblock 2.0: Serverless computing with multi-tenant FPGAS

Serverless computing has gained significant popularity in recent years, especially in cloud computing environments. Although Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become increasingly common in cloud computing environments, there has been limited research into how FPGAs can be integrated into serverless computing frameworks to further improve performance and cost-efficiency. We propose Nimblock 2.0 as a means of integrating FPGAs into serverless platforms, enabling developers to leverage the speed and versatility of FPGAs to build and execute high-performance, customizable applications easily. Our evaluation of the Nimblock 2.0 heterogeneous serverless computing model shows that running FPGA workloads in a serverless environment results in an average overhead of only 13%. Allocating requests to both CPU and FPGA compute resources can provide up to a 12% performance improvement. The ability to allocate requests to different resource types can provide significant performance improvements, while considering workload characteristics and priority can further optimize performance. Nimblock 2.0 can enable the efficient use of FPGAs in serverless computing, enabling support for frameworks such as Library-as-a-Service.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2023

Author dc:creator

• Mandava, Meghna

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chen, Deming

• Fpga
• Serverless Computing
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Heterogeneous Cloud

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2023 Meghna Mandava

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/120445

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