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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03622.pdf
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The paper proposes FaaSwap, a novel approach for efficient serverless inference using model swapping. It leverages SLO-aware scheduling to minimize the overhead of GPU provisioning while ensuring low latency and high throughput. The proposed solution is evaluated on real-world workloads and demonstrates significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art solutions.

FaaSwap automatically tracks the addresses of models when they get swapped even across multiple GPUs, and easily adjusts each memory access of CUDA APIs accordingly during inference execution. It also effectively organizes and shares memory blocks to avoid high memory allocation overhead, improving overall performance of model swapping. In addition, FaaSwap ensures resource and fault isolation in its GPU pool.

The paper evaluates FaaSwap atop Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (FC), one of the world’s largest commercial serverless platforms. Evaluation results show that FaaSwap achieves low-latency model inference and swapping in its GPU pool, which leads to comparable performance with native execution. FaaSwap can share a GPU across hundreds of functions and load-balance GPUs with model swap rates up to 100 times per second. The proposed solution also demonstrates significant cost savings compared to native execution on FC.