Borg : the next generation
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This paper analyzes a newly-published trace that covers 8 different Borg [35] clusters for the month of May 2019. The trace enables researchers to explore how scheduling works in large-scale production compute clusters. We highlight how Borg has evolved and perform a longitudinal comparison of the newly-published 2019 trace against the 2011 trace, which has been highly cited within the research community. Our findings show that Borg features such as alloc sets are used for resource-heavy workloads; automatic vertical scaling is effective; job-dependencies account for much of the high failure rates reported by prior studies; the workload arrival rate has increased, as has the use of resource over-commitment; the workload mix has changed, jobs have migrated from the free tier into the best-effort batch tier; the workload exhibits an extremely heavy-tailed distribution where the top 1% of jobs consume over 99% of resources; and there is a great deal of variation between different clusters.
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Tirmazi , M , Barker , A , Deng , N , Haque , M E , Qin , Z G , Hand , S , Harchol-Balter , M & Wilkes , J 2020 , Borg : the next generation . in Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '20) . , 30 , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , New York , pp. 1-14 , Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ’20) , Heraklion , Greece , 27/04/20 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3342195.3387517 conference
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '20)
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