Topic

Topology-aware scheduling

The practice of placing tightly coupled distributed jobs according to a cluster's physical network layout, so that communicating ranks land inside the same high-bandwidth domain.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Topograph turns fabric discovery into Kubernetes labels and Slurm's topology.conf

NVIDIA's open source Topograph discovers cluster topology from five named clouds or from ibnetdiscover on-premises, then republishes it as node labels, Slurm config or Slinky ConfigMaps whenever a watched part of the cluster changes.

Publishers:developer.nvidia.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption25
Hype gap+18
Incentives85
Confidence60