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Coded distributed computing (CDC) has recently emerged to be a promising solution to address the straggling effects in conventional distributed computing systems. By assigning redundant workloads to the computing nodes, CDC can significantly enhance the performance of the whole system. However, since the core idea of CDC is to introduce redundancies to compensate for uncertainties, it may lead to a large amount of wasted energy at the edge nodes. It can be observed that the more redundant workload added, the less impact the straggling effects have on the system. However, at the same time, the more energy is needed to perform redundant tasks. In this work, we develop a novel framework, namely CERA, to elastically allocate computing resources for CDC processes. Particularly, CERA consists of two stages. In the first stage, we model a joint coding and node selection optimization problem to minimize …