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A minimal model makes the difficulty explicit. If each of a fleet’s ranks is independently healthy and idle with probability p at a random instant, the probability that all n ranks a job needs are simultaneously available is
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- [12] Analysis of Large-Scale Multi-Tenant GPU Clusters for DNN Training Workloads ↗
- [10] Large-Scale Cluster Management at Google with Borg ↗
- [11] Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptive and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads ↗
- [2] MAST: Global Scheduling of ML Training across Geo-Distributed Datacenters at Hyperscale ↗
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