GPU Cluster Scheduling: Architecting Infrastructure for AI/ML
S. Paulson, Arthur
Synopsis "GPU Cluster Scheduling: Architecting Infrastructure for AI/ML"
Picture this: you spend millions on the latest accelerators, only to watch them collect dust while your engineers wait days for jobs to start. Your GPUs are healthy, yet distributed training runs constantly fail. I have watched organizations burn massive capital on stranded capacity simply because they treated an AI supercomputer like a standard web server. The stakes are physical and brutal—misconfigure a queue or ignore a thermal limit, and your project stalls entirely. But when you master the orchestrator, you eliminate the friction. I wrote this book to hand you the exact mathematical formulas, architectural blueprints, and financial strategies you need to tame massive hardware and turn raw electricity into deployed intelligence. What's inside Hardware Foundations: Mastering PCIe topologies, network fabrics, and parallel file systems. Advanced Scheduling: Executing gang scheduling, preemption, and queue management using Slurm and Kubernetes Volcano. Distributed AI: Ensuring fault tolerance, managing checkpoints, and scaling massive inference loads. Observability & Remediation: Building a Grafana dashboard to track SLAs and automate the cordoning of sick nodes. FinOps & Power: Calculating Total Cost of Ownership, enforcing power capping, and setting up hybrid cloud-bursting. Production Blueprints: Tested configuration files and Kubernetes manifests to stand up your cluster immediately. Who it's meant for If you are an infrastructure engineer, a systems architect, or a technical operations leader tasked with scaling machine learning workloads, this is for you. You need a basic understanding of networking and Linux systems, but you do not need to be a data scientist to master these concepts. Do not let your multi-million-dollar hardware investment turn into a bottleneck. Take total control of your infrastructure, eliminate queue delays, and build a system that scales without breaking. Get your copy today and start architecting the true foundation of modern AI.
