How to Leverage Volcano to Improve Resource Utilization in Scenarios Such as AI Pharmaceuticals, Autonomous Driving, and Smart Buildings

Volcano is a cloud-native open source system for running high-performance workloads on Kubernetes. In this talk, William Wang reviews Volcano's motivation and architecture, its progress towards version 1.8, including deployments like jobflow and GPU sharing. He also covers new features, user adoptions, new subprojects, and the project's roadmap. The presentation highlights how Volcano helps users support more scenarios in AI pharmaceuticals, autonomous driving, and smart buildings by improving resource utilization in Kubernetes clusters, addressing challenges like low CPU utilization and resource gaps between requests and usage.