Talk Proposal: Unlocking Network-Aware Scheduling with Topograph

[dmitsh]

Talk Information

• **Draft Title:**Unlocking Network-Aware Scheduling with Topograph
• Length:
  • Lighting talk/Demo (10 min)
  • Full Presentation (20 min)
• Links: (slides, article, notes) https://github.com/NVIDIA/topograph

• Which dates, particularly Tue/Wed/Thu during the 3rd/4th week of a month, are you likely available? (e.g. "Most Thursdays with 4 weeks notice", "June or later", etc.) Most Mondays or Thursdays
• Short Summary of your talk:
  Distributed AI workloads perform best when scheduled on network-optimized nodes, improving performance and reducing cost. Although major CSPs expose network topology in their managed Kubernetes offerings, this information is difficult to obtain in on-prem or non-managed clusters, and SLURM and SLURM-on-Kubernetes cannot natively use it even in managed environments.
  In this talk, I introduce Topograph, which automatically discovers and maintains real-time network topology across SLURM, Kubernetes, and SLURM-on-Kubernetes.

Speaker Bio

• **Name:**Dmitry Shmulevich
• Mini-bio: (This is the introduction our emcee will give about you, one paragraph is usually best)
  Dmitry is a software engineer at NVIDIA with over a decade of experience in cloud computing. He is an active member of the open-source community and maintains and contributes to several open-source projects.
• Picture for slides: (We use this pictures to create promotional content and to present your talk in our socials.)
• Would you like help with your presentation? (Feedback on notes, content?)
• Social media link(s): (twitter, website, linkedin, etc.) https://github.com/dmitsh
• Do you agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct?
  • I agree

[frozenprocess]

Hey @dmitsh,
We've got an event coming up this 23th Feb would that work for your session?
https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-vancouver-presents-2026-februray-cloud-native-vancouver/

[dmitsh]

Hey @dmitsh, We've got an event coming up this 23th Feb would that work for your session? https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-vancouver-presents-2026-februray-cloud-native-vancouver/

Yes, it could work.

[frozenprocess]

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