Marcin Copik
High-performance computing, serverless, and all that jazz!

I’m a PhD student at the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, advised by Prof. Torsten Hoefler. My main research goal is to develop high-performance solutions for the new cloud paradigm of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing. The serverless revolution brings new elastic and flexible resource allocation techniques, and combined with a high-performance programming model, it will open new opportunities to increase resource utilization and decrease monetary and environmental costs in data centers of all sizes.
I obtained my Master’s degree in Simulation Sciences from the RWTH Aachen (Germany) where I worked on my Master thesis in the HPAC Group, supervised by Prof. Paolo Bientinesi and Prof. Benjamin Berkels. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Silesian University of Technology in Poland, where I had the opportunity to work at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences with Prof. Tadeusz Czachórski, Dr Artur Rataj, and Dr Mateusz Nowak.
Research Interests
- Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)
- Elastic and Efficient Computing
- High-Performance Computing
- Performance Modeling
- Parallel Algorithms
- Code-Driven Design and Optimizations
news
Nov 10, 2023 | I will be giving a lightning talk at the LLVM-HPC workshop at SC23, where I will present our work on Cppless, C++ compiler for serverless!. |
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Oct 29, 2023 | Our paper User-guided Page Merging for Memory Deduplication in Serverless Systems} has been accepted at IEEE Big Data 2023 conference! |
Oct 1, 2023 | I will be attending the Supercomputing conference this year. I will be working as a student volunteer, and I received the SIGHPC Travel Grant! |
Jun 19, 2023 | I will be attending ACM FCRC and ICS’ 23 where I will present our paper on FMI! |
May 15, 2023 | I will be attending IPDPS’ 23 where I will present our paper on rFaaS, and present my PhD research on high-performance serverless at the PhD Forum and PAISE workshop. |