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# Ship Computer or Data? Why not both?

https\://www\.usenix.org/conference/nsdi21/presentation/you

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* Different computation intensity, measure the tput achieved at specific latency target
* How do we know when we don't know underlying workload? 

 

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* Rate limiting: latency 
* Request arbitration: optimal fraction of request using ...

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* Accommodate different target, but not a combination of targets 
* Ship data 
  * in distributed system, more flexible to deploy 
* Ship code 
  * Cannot re-deploy (interrupt the service) 
  * Run-time changes of the server-extension 
* Partial computation on server side 
  * More fine-grained placement 
  * Limitation: request rate is so high 
    * Overhead? 
* dimension for evaluating data moving cost 

Now:

* cost is the latency, not the network bandwidth