AI Ecosystem CourseBy Queensly Austin
Module 6

Accelerator Clusters And The Cloud/Software Bridge

Introduction Available · Lessons In Development

From installed equipment to a developer's API call

Thousands of accelerators can be installed in powered racks and still be a long way from a useful service. Software has to run the model, networks have to connect related work, storage has to supply information, and schedulers have to allocate resources. Identity, metering, monitoring, and recovery are part of the developer's experience too.

The project, 10,000 Accelerators to One API Call, follows those steps. You will trace a training job separately from an inference request and learn to recognize what someone might mean by 'more compute.' Modules 2–5 supply the groundwork on workloads, facilities, and the supply chain. We will explain the software terms before using them.

The scenarios are conceptual and the numbers hypothetical. Use them to decide what to measure and where a constraint might sit. A production implementation needs documentation for its exact framework, drivers, hardware, network, service version, and configuration.

Planned lessons

  1. The Software Stack Translates Intentions Into Execution
  2. CUDA, ROCm, XLA, And Neuron Are Different Kinds Of Ecosystem
  3. Graph Compilation And Kernel Fusion
  4. Scale-Up And Scale-Out Communication
  5. NICs, RDMA, InfiniBand, And Ethernet
  6. Data Parallelism Replicates The Model
  7. Tensor, Pipeline, And Expert Parallelism Divide Different Things
  8. Scaling Efficiency Measures The Benefit Of More Resources
  9. Containers Package Software For Defined Environments
  10. Kubernetes, Orchestration, And Scheduling
  11. Storage Feeds Training And Preserves State
  12. Fault Tolerance Includes Detection And Correct Recovery
  13. Inference Serving Turns Weights Into Responses
  14. Tail Latency, Service Targets, And Goodput
  15. Observability Connects Symptoms To Stages
  16. Hyperscalers, Neoclouds, And Responsibility Boundaries