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Design quota and fairness for a shared research cluster: hierarchical quotas, preemption, and the incentives that keep it honest.

A team returns to claim its GPUs, but another team is borrowing them in one indivisible job. Work through the quota tree, whole-job reclaim, recovery costs and release-to-ready budget before promising a start time.

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A team returns to claim its GPUs, but another team is borrowing them in one indivisible job. Work through the quota tree, whole-job reclaim, recovery costs and release-to-ready budget before promising a start time.

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Assesses whether the candidate distinguishes entitlement from placement, enforces parent and child limits, reclaims complete eligible jobs, budgets through readiness and explains fairness under degraded capacity.

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