2026-05-06 Meeting Notes

May 6, 2026

Attendees

• @Diego Tavares

• -@Jimmy Christensen

• @Ramon Figueiredo

• Zach Repasky

• – Carol Payne

• – Valentin Ricard

• – Felix Duchesneau (AWS)

• -Nuwan

Agenda

• SIGGRAPH 2026

  • Updates on the latest official version

  • Event driven monitoring stack

  • Distributed Scheduler

  • GPU booking

  • AI policy

  • Live demo: How to deploy the sandbox

• Dev days

  • We need to give the issues a pass to tag them as good-first-issue

  • Cueweb feature parity with cuegui

• Aurora’s farm scaled up to a few thousand amazon cores

  • rds amazon db service defaults storage is not optimal for slow iops

  • nvme local storage was the key to unlock performance

  • layer/frame break down was a problem initially where memory could not be shared

  • swap management is an issue for ecs instances that actually don’t have any swap