Yvonne Coady

Distributed Cloud Computing

2015 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

A distributed cloud connecting multiple, geographically distributed and smaller datacenters, can be an attractive alternative to today's massive, centralized datacenters. A distributed cloud can reduce communication overheads, costs, and latencies by o ering nearby computation …

No such thing as a “free launch”? Systematic benchmarking of containers

2017

Docker containers have recently become an extremely popular means of building robust, modular systems. Essentially, many architectures leverage lightweight virtualization to manage micro-services. Surprisingly however, there are very few studies revealing the overheads, such as …

Human Latency Conversational Turns for Spoken Avatar Systems

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

A problem with many current Large Language Model (LLM) driven spoken dialogues is the response time. Some efforts such as Groq address this issue by lightning fast processing of the LLM, but we know from …