# Runway — No Idle GPUs: Managing Research Compute at Runway

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-04-27
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/engineering/no-idle-gpus-managing-research-compute-at-runway
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7888-no-idle-gpus-managing-research-compute-at-runway
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway describes how it increased GPU utilization by over 20 percentage points using Kueue as a Kubernetes admission controller, implementing reserved queues for guaranteed capacity and a shared default queue that borrows idle GPUs with preemption.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/engineering/no-idle-gpus-managing-research-compute-at-runway:

> We increased GPU utilization by over 20 percentage points while still guaranteeing team capacity by using Kueue as a Kubernetes admission controller: reserved quotas for critical work, a shared queue that borrows idle capacity and preemption to reclaim it when owners need it.

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