Web-Scale Job Scheduling
Abstract
Web datacenters and clusters can be larger than the world’s
largest supercomputers, and run workloads that are at least as heteroge-
neous and complex as their high-performance computing counterparts.
And yet little is known about the unique job scheduling challenges of
these environments. This article aims to ameliorate this situation. It dis-
cusses the challenges of running web infrastructure and describes several
techniques to address them. It also presents some of the problems that
remain open in the field.
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