Compare bin-packing heuristics and DRF on a cluster trace sample

Pack sampled resource requests with first-fit, best-fit and worst-fit, measure machines needed and stranded resources, and compute DRF shares for a few users.

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The exercise happens on Self-directed (public cluster traces). Canonical link: https://github.com/google/cluster-data. Link check: link responded (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

Supports: The 2019 Google trace needs BigQuery; the Azure packing trace is a direct download. Prepares scheduling-policy evaluation questions.

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