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Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by subway »

eropple wrote: post #2

My first reaction was "this just sounds like Mesos?". And it's cited in their page (which on first read I thought meant they were trying to act as a single pane of glass for Mesos/k8s/etc.): https://eng.uber.com/peloton/ In the OP blog post though, they assert "to our knowledge, there is no other open source scheduler which combines all types of workloads for web-scale companies like Uber." And then, when you dig...i…

Singularity isn't a scheduler. It's generally invoked by traditional hpc schedulers like moab or slurm.

edit: clearly I'm thinking of a different Singularity than you.

Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by ericlewis »

jonny_eh wrote: post #10
r_klancer wrote: post #5

Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton I would guess

Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by chris_mc »

jonny_eh wrote: post #10
r_klancer wrote: post #5

Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?

I searched on google, a "peloton" is "the main field or group of cyclists in a race".

Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by WorldMaker »

jonny_eh wrote: post #10
r_klancer wrote: post #5

Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?

Peloton is a somewhat common French word for "ball" that became common in English as a sports term for a grouping in a bicycle race, by way of the Tour de France. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton

Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by r00fus »

CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #8
r_klancer wrote: post #5

Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

And Peleton the open source RDBMS.

I remember when Mozilla got such heat for “usurping” the Firebird name (due to the name already being used by Firebird BD) - they then changed to Firefox.

Does Uber get held to the same standard or do we just assume all names are overloaded now?

Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler

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Post by spyspy »

Is it just me or is every big release from Uber just a custom rewrite of an existing technology? It seems their engineering department has a large not-invented-here attitude. I could be wrong - they're certainly large enough to have custom requirements that aren't met with what's on the market but the pattern is just becoming suspect.
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