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Scheduling GPU Work Without a Scheduler Team
Theo Whitfield
- When
- Wednesday, September 1611:15 AM – 11:45 AM · 30 min
- Where
- Room 2AFort Mason Center, San Francisco
About this session
Fair queuing, preemption and priority for a fleet you cannot afford to leave idle — implemented by two engineers with a job queue and a lot of restraint about what to build.
Speaker
Theo Whitfield
Staff Engineer, Junction
Theo works on Junction's orchestration engine and the scheduler underneath it. He came to distributed systems from computational biology and has never entirely left.
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