From e52624d81a2598c24925d87bd8af9a38aa4bb60b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Vij Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:59:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Revised Firmament value proposition text. --- docs/design/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/design/README.md b/docs/design/README.md index b8ccfd94..bc1aef04 100644 --- a/docs/design/README.md +++ b/docs/design/README.md @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Firmament currently supports several scheduling policies: 4. a simple load-spreading policy based on the number of running pods. See the [OSDI paper](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16-gog.pdf) for more details. We decided to bring Firmament to Kubernetes because it offers several advantages over the default Kubernetes scheduler: -1. Tremendous throughput performance benefits due to efficient amortization of work across Replicasets/Deplyments/Jobs. +1. Substantial throughput benefits using Firmament scheduler as long as resource requirements (CPU/Memory) for incoming Pods is uniform across Replicasets/Deployments/Jobs. This is mainly due to efficient amortization of work across Replicasets/Deplyments/Jobs. For “Big Data/AI” jobs consisting of large no. of tasks, throughput benefits are tremendous. This is also true for service or batch job scenarios where workload resource requirements are uniform across Replicasets/Deplyments/Jobs. 2. It makes globally optimal scheduling decisions for its policies because it uses a min-cost flow optimization that finds the pod placements with the minimum overall cost. 3. Firmament supports task re-scheduling. In each scheduler run it considers all pods, including running pods, and as