In the parlance of Mesos, the Mesos kernel is an "allocator" (in that it assembles and allocates all of the compute resources) and the frameworks are the "sched

In the parlance of Mesos, the Mesos kernel is an "allocator" (in that it assembles and allocates all of the compute resources) and the frameworks are the "schedulers" in that they request and consume "resource offers" (made by the allocator) and then schedule tasks to be run on those accepted resources.