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title: What Is Fair-Share Scheduling? | Vantage Compute
canonical: 'https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/fair-share-scheduling/'
description: >-
  Fair-share scheduling divides a shared cluster so that each team gets its
  agreed portion of capacity over time, rather than whoever submits first.
updated: '2026-11-12'
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# What Is Fair-Share Scheduling?

Fair-share scheduling divides a shared cluster so that each team gets its agreed portion of capacity over time, rather than whoever submits first.

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## How it works

- Each team or project is given a share of the cluster.
- The scheduler tracks how much each one has used recently.
- Jobs from teams under their share run ahead of jobs from teams over it.
- Capacity nobody is using stays available to everyone else.

## How Vantage Compute relates

Vantage Compute lets teams share capacity by policy, with GPU hours and spend tracked per team and project.

## Related terms

- [GPU chargeback](https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/gpu-chargeback/)
- [Slurm and Kubernetes identity](https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/slurm-and-kubernetes-identity/)