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Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

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Verma, Abhishek, Pedrosa, Luis, Korupolu, Madhukar, Oppenheimer, David, Tune, Eric, Wilkes, John·2015·Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems

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Google's Borg system is a cluster manager that runs hundreds of thousands of jobs, from many thousands of different applications, across a number of clusters each with up to tens of thousands of machines.

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  • Borg [25], the Kubernetes lineage [52], Tetris [26], Hawk [27], and Sparrow [28] pack stateless jobs; Gaia [22] optimizes geo-distributed training.

    “Borg [25], the Kubernetes lineage [52], Tetris [26], Hawk [27], and Sparrow [28] pack stateless jobs; Gaia [22] optimizes geo-distributed training .”

    From Janus: Joint Prefill/Decode Disaggregation with KV-Cache-Aware Multi-Cloud Routing for Edge-Adjacent LLM Serving (2026) · cites this paper as [25]

    The Abstract and §3.2 (Scheduling; page unavailable) say Borg uses task packing when placing work on machines. But §2.1 (The workload; page unavailable) describes both long-running services and batch jobs, including distributed storage systems; the paper does not characterize the jobs it packs as stateless. This verdict concerns the Borg citation, not the other systems in the sentence. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Google's Borg and Kubernetes handle container orchestration with resource limits and quotas.

    “Google's Borg [27] and Kubernetes [28] handle container orchestration with resource limits and quotas.”

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Authors
Verma, A., Pedrosa, L., Korupolu, M., Oppenheimer, D., Tune, E., & Wilkes, J.
Affiliations
Google (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2015-04-17
Pages
1-17
OpenAlex
W2141992894
Cited by
1,468
References
63
Citations by year
2026: 154 · 2025: 139 · 2024: 110 · 2023: 115 · 2022: 114 · 2021: 156 · 2020: 129 · 2019: 152 · 2018: 141 · 2017: 114 · 2016: 119 · 2015: 25
FWCI
115.57
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
European Conference on Computer Systems (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Keywords
cluster management, job scheduling, large-scale distributed systems, Google, cluster computing, resource management

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