Posts by Shiv Tyagi
Spur: Modern GPU Job Scheduling for HPC and AI Workloads
- 22 July 2026
The explosion of AI and large-scale model training has fundamentally changed how organizations think about GPU clusters. Traditional HPC schedulers were built in an era when CPUs dominated, and GPU support was retrofitted as an afterthought. Meanwhile, Kubernetes emerged from the cloud-native world with powerful orchestration primitives—but batch GPU scheduling and Slurm-style job workflows remain friction points unless you assemble a full ecosystem of operators, custom schedulers, and queueing layers on top of the default control plane.