github.com/ferranbt/nomad@v0.9.3-0.20190607002617-85c449b7667c/website/source/docs/internals/scheduling/index.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Scheduling" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-internals-scheduling" 5 description: |- 6 Learn about how scheduling works in Nomad. 7 --- 8 9 # Scheduling 10 11 Scheduling is a core function of Nomad. It is the process of assigning tasks 12 from jobs to client machines. The design is heavily inspired by Google's work on 13 both [Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters][Omega] and 14 [Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg][Borg]. See the links below 15 for implementation details on scheduling in Nomad. 16 17 - [Scheduling Internals](/docs/internals/scheduling/scheduling.html) - An overview of how the scheduler works. 18 - [Preemption](/docs/internals/scheduling/preemption.html) - Details of preemption, an advanced scheduler feature introduced in Nomad 0.9. 19 20 [Omega]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41684.html 21 [Borg]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html