UBC CIRRUS Lab

Welcome to the UBC CIRRUS Lab

Cloud computing plays an integral role as the backbone of today’s IT-driven society. The immense scale of cloud computing systems, its wide range of users and enabled applications, and complex interactions between numerous services and software layers make it easy to leave efficiency behind. The UBC Cloud Infrastructure Research for Reliability, Usability, and Scalability (CIRRUS) Lab was born in July 2021 to tackle existing cloud computing challenges and drive future technologies for the next generation of cloud services.

Team

	Mohammad Shahrad Assistant Professor PhD (Princeton University) [Principal Investigator]
Mohamed Elsakhawy Adjunct Professor PhD (University of Western Ontario)	Ghazal Sadeghian Graduate RA BSc (Amirkabir University of Technology)	Nalin Munshi Graduate RA BTech (Vellore Institute of Technology)
Arshia Moghimi Graduate RA BASc (Sharif University of Technology)	Nima Nasiri Graduate RA BASc (University of British Columbia)	Yuanzhi (Gigi) Ma NSERC USRA Undergrad at UBC
Xiaoyang (Sofia) Zhang Work Learn Project Assistant Undergrad at UBC	Alexander Li UREP Affiliate Undergrad at UBC	Parshan Javanrood UREP Affiliate Undergrad at UBC
	Mehdi Ben Chikha MITACS GRI Intern Undergrad at INSAT (Tunisia)

Former Members:

Joe Hattori, Visiting International Research Student from University of Tokyo (2022)

Lab News

May 1, 2023: Team secures two papers in USENIX ATC '23, including one in collaboration with Princeton SNS group.
September 15, 2022: Joe Hattori joins as visiting research student from the University of Tokyo. (more on the UBC VIRS program)
September 5, 2022: Welcoming Nima and Arshia!
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May 1, 2022: Excited to have Dr. Mohamed Elsakhawy join us as an Adjunct Professor.
September 1, 2021: Ghazal and Nalin officially started!
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August 27, 2021: Two of our papers are accepted to SoCC '21! UBC has four papers at this year's SoCC! 🎉
July 1, 2021: The UBC CIRRUS Lab is born on Canada day!

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Publications and Preprints

UnFaaSener: Latency and Cost Aware Offloading of Functions from Serverless Platforms
G. Sadeghian, M. Elsakhawy, M. Shahrad, J. Hattori, and M. Shahrad
To appear at the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '23)
VectorVisor: A Binary Translation Scheme for Throughput-Oriented GPU Acceleration
S. Ginzburg, M. Shahrad, and M. Freedman
To appear at the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '23)
Decomposing and Executing Serverless Applications as Resource Graphs
Z. Guo, Z. Blanco, M. Shahrad, Z. Wei, B. Dong, J. Li, I. Pota, H. Xu, and Y. Zhang
arXiv:2206 (2022)
On Merits and Viability of Multi-Cloud Serverless
A. Fatahi Baarzi, G. Kesidis, C. Joe-Wong, and M. Shahrad
12th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '21)
Provisioning Differentiated Last-Level Cache Allocations to VMs in Public Clouds
M. Shahrad, S. Elnikety, and R. Bianchini
12th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '21)

Here are Dr. Shahrad's selected papers prior to establishing the CIRRUS lab. Find his complete publication list here.

Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider
M. Shahrad, R. Fonseca, I. Goiri, G. Chaudhry, P. Batum, J. Cooke, E. Laureano, C. Tresness, M. Russinovich, and R. Bianchini
2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '20)
Architectural Implications of Function-as-a-Service Computing
M. Shahrad, J. Balkind, and D. Wentzlaff
IEEE/ACM 52nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO '19)

Research Sponsors

We are thankful for the grants, gifts, and resources from various sources that enable our research endeavors.