HPC Workload Scheduling, with Ricardo Rocha

Ricardo Rocha (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-r...) leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG). Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com (https://kubernetespodcast.com) mail: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) twitter: @kubernetespod (  / kubernetespod  ) bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com (https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespo...) News of the week • Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/25...) • Gemini CLI on GitHub (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemi...) • Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live! (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/26/c...) • CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let's Build What's Next (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/24/j...) • OpenStack Foundation (https://www.openstack.org/) • OpenInfra Foundation (https://openinfra.dev/) Links from the interview • Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn (  / ricardo-rochaj  ) • CERN (https://home.cern/) • Infiniband (https://network.nvidia.com/pdf/whitep...) • Kubernetes Jobs (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/w...) • HTCondor (https://htcondor.org/) • Slurm Workload Manager (https://slurm.schedmd.com/) • Kueue (https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/) • Volcano (https://volcano.sh/) • Kube-batch (archived) (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ku...) • Kubefed (archived) (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ku...) • Yunikorn (Unicorn) (https://yunikorn.apache.org/) • KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2) (https://github.com/kubewharf/kubeadmiral) • CNCF End User Awards - CERN (https://www.cncf.io/announcements/202...) • Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/s...) • CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot) (https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1218) • Interlink (https://www.cncf.io/projects/interlink/) • Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration) (https://slurm.schedmd.com/slinky.html) • XPK: a container-native platform for HPC (https://github.com/AI-Hypercomputer/xpk) • Gateway API (https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/) • KubeRay (https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/cluster...)