- Walfredo Cirne
- Eitan Frachtenberg
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7698 (2013)
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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