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Paper2013

Omega: Flexible, Scalable Schedulers for Large Compute Clusters

Malte Schwarzkopf, Andy Konwinski, Michael Abd-El-Malek & John Wilkes

Argues a single monolithic scheduler cannot keep up with a cluster's variety of workloads, and replaces it with several schedulers working against shared state under optimistic concurrency control instead of a single lock.

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Paper2015

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

Abhishek Verma et al.

Describes the cluster manager that ran Google's production workloads for a decade and argues that packing heterogeneous jobs onto shared machines, not dedicating machines per job, is what makes a datacentre efficient — the direct ancestor of Kubernetes.

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Omega: Flexible, Scalable Schedulers for Large Compute Clusters

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

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