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Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 13, 2026 · Cloud Native

Boosting Autonomous Driving Data Pipelines with Koordinator’s ElasticQuota and GPU Sharing

This article details how a leading autonomous‑driving company tackled multi‑tenant resource contention, low GPU utilization, and distributed task dead‑locks on a heterogeneous Kubernetes cluster by adopting Koordinator’s ElasticQuota, Reservation, Gang and Device‑Share features, achieving higher allocation rates, better fairness, and significantly improved GPU efficiency.

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Boosting Autonomous Driving Data Pipelines with Koordinator’s ElasticQuota and GPU Sharing
Youzan Coder
Youzan Coder
Jul 18, 2025 · Cloud Native

How Mixed Workloads Boost Kubernetes CPU Utilization by Over 40%

This article explains how Youzan transformed its Kubernetes clusters from static over‑commit scheduling to load‑balanced mixed workloads using Koordinator and the Longxi kernel, achieving higher CPU utilization, lower costs, and better resource management for both online and offline services.

Big DataCloud NativeKoordinator
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How Mixed Workloads Boost Kubernetes CPU Utilization by Over 40%
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 7, 2025 · Cloud Native

Koordinator v1.6: Enhancing Heterogeneous GPU Scheduling for Cloud‑Native Clusters

Koordinator v1.6 introduces GPU topology‑aware scheduling, end‑to‑end GPU & RDMA joint allocation, fine‑grained GPU sharing, differentiated scoring for GPU vs CPU resources, advanced reservation and mixed‑workload support, plus numerous scheduler and rescheduler optimizations to improve resource utilization and performance in Kubernetes clusters.

Heterogeneous DevicesKoordinatorResource Management
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Koordinator v1.6: Enhancing Heterogeneous GPU Scheduling for Cloud‑Native Clusters
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 4, 2025 · Cloud Native

Koordinator v1.6 Release: Advanced Heterogeneous Device Scheduling and GPU Management Features

The Koordinator v1.6 release introduces a suite of innovations—including GPU topology‑aware scheduling, end‑to‑end GPU & RDMA joint allocation, strong GPU isolation, differentiated GPU scoring, fine‑grained resource reservation, mixed‑workload QoS, and extensive scheduler and rescheduler optimizations—to efficiently manage heterogeneous resources in Kubernetes clusters for AI and high‑performance computing workloads.

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Koordinator v1.6 Release: Advanced Heterogeneous Device Scheduling and GPU Management Features
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Feb 17, 2025 · Cloud Native

Optimizing Offline Pod Scheduling with Koordinator and Yarn-Operator

To reduce resource contention and improve offline task reliability, this article examines the challenges of using Koordinator with Hadoop Yarn pods on Kubernetes, proposes real‑time resource reporting and task‑level eviction strategies, details community and custom solutions, and outlines future enhancements with Volcano.

Big DataCloud NativeKoordinator
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Optimizing Offline Pod Scheduling with Koordinator and Yarn-Operator
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Nov 6, 2024 · Cloud Native

Koordinator vs Crane: Which Scheduler Optimizes Kubernetes Resource Usage?

The article examines how native Kubernetes scheduling based solely on resource requests leads to waste and imbalance, compares the open‑source crane‑scheduler and koord‑scheduler architectures, explains practical configuration of Koordinator, and provides step‑by‑step testing procedures to achieve load‑aware scheduling.

Cloud NativeKoordinatorKubernetes
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Koordinator vs Crane: Which Scheduler Optimizes Kubernetes Resource Usage?
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Oct 21, 2024 · Cloud Native

How Koordinator Enhances Kubernetes Scheduling for Mixed Workloads

Koordinator is a QoS‑based Kubernetes scheduler that boosts efficiency and reliability for latency‑sensitive services and batch jobs, offering fine‑grained resource coordination, flexible priority classes, load‑aware scheduling, and integrated monitoring tools to maximize cluster utilization.

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How Koordinator Enhances Kubernetes Scheduling for Mixed Workloads
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 16, 2024 · Cloud Native

What’s New in Koordinator v1.4.0? A Deep Dive into Mixed‑Workload Scheduling and Resource Optimizations

Koordinator v1.4.0 introduces mixed K8s/YARN workloads, NUMA‑aware scheduling, CPU‑normalization, enhanced ElasticQuota with tree structures and non‑preemptible pods, cold‑memory reporting, QoS for non‑containerized applications, and a suite of bug‑fixes and performance improvements for enterprise Kubernetes clusters.

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What’s New in Koordinator v1.4.0? A Deep Dive into Mixed‑Workload Scheduling and Resource Optimizations
360 Smart Cloud
360 Smart Cloud
Jan 10, 2024 · Cloud Native

Mixed Workload Scheduling (混部) in Kubernetes: Challenges, Core Technologies, and Koordinator Enhancements

The article analyzes low CPU utilization in pure online Kubernetes clusters, introduces mixed‑workload (online + offline) scheduling to improve resource efficiency, explains core techniques, kernel QoS features, and details Koordinator‑based implementations such as node resource reservation and scheduling adjustments.

Cloud NativeKoordinatorKubernetes
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Mixed Workload Scheduling (混部) in Kubernetes: Challenges, Core Technologies, and Koordinator Enhancements
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 16, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Koordinator Supercharges ACK Container Scheduling and Resource Efficiency

Koordinator, an open‑source cloud‑native scheduler from Alibaba, enhances container performance and reduces cluster costs by introducing mixed‑workload placement, resource profiling, load‑aware scheduling, and differentiated SLO mixing, now fully integrated into Alibaba Cloud ACK with a new v1.1.1‑ack.1 release.

ACKCloud NativeKoordinator
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How Koordinator Supercharges ACK Container Scheduling and Resource Efficiency
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jun 16, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Koordinator Improves Efficiency and Stability for Cloud‑Native Mixed Workloads

This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's open‑source Koordinator system tackles mixed‑workload challenges by introducing priority and QoS models, resource overcommit, load‑aware scheduling, fine‑grained CPU orchestration, and upcoming features such as GPU scheduling and resource recommendation, all illustrated with architecture diagrams and code examples.

Cloud NativeKoordinatorKubernetes
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How Koordinator Improves Efficiency and Stability for Cloud‑Native Mixed Workloads