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by barrkel 3120 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem

If you have a bunch of jobs and you need to run them efficiently on a bunch of compute, you need to be careful not to oversubscribe the hardware, especially wrt memory. There's an isomorphism between running differently sized jobs concurrently on a compute resources, and the bin packing problem. It's a scheduling problem.