Why it matters

Orchestration shapes GPU utilization. Understanding shapes ops choice.

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The architecture

Scheduler: assigns jobs to GPUs.

Queue: pending work.

Fair-share + gang scheduling.

GPU orchestration stackQueuepending jobsSchedulerassign to GPUsRuntimeK8s or SlurmK8s + Kueue for cloud native; Slurm for HPC; Run:ai commercial
Orchestration.
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How it works end to end

K8s device plugin: GPU exposed as resource.

Fair-share: quota per team.

Gang scheduling: all-or-nothing for distributed.