Detailed AI Infrastructure Practice Areas
Ten focused practice areas covering the full stack — facility, hardware, fabric, orchestration, runtime, platform, and applications. Engage on any one, or end-to-end.
- /01 GPU Infrastructure Strategy→
- /02 Datacentre & AI Factory Readiness→
- /03 GPU Cluster Architecture→
- /04 Networking & Storage→
- /05 Inference Platform Engineering→
- /06 Training & Fine-tuning→
- /07 Private, Local & Sovereign AI→
- /08 Decentralised GPU Networks→
- /09 Security for AI Platforms→
- /10 SRE, Observability & FinOps→
GPU Infrastructure Strategy
Workload-first analysis before any procurement decision is locked in.
Workload analysis
- ·Inference
- ·Fine-tuning
- ·Training
- ·RAG
- ·Agents
- ·Batch
- ·Simulation
- ·HPC-adjacent
Hardware selection
- ·A100 / H100 / H200
- ·B200 / GB200 / GB300-class
- ·DGX / HGX / SuperPOD
- ·OEM, cloud, colo, hybrid
Economics
- ·Build vs buy
- ·CapEx vs OpEx
- ·TCO modelling
- ·Cost per token
- ·Tokens per watt
- ·Utilisation targets
Procurement
- ·Vendor evaluation
- ·Lead-time risk
- ·Allocation strategy
Datacentre & AI Factory Readiness
Technical advisory and integration leadership in coordination with certified facility, MEP, electrical, and cooling specialists.
Power & density
- ·Rack density
- ·Power delivery assumptions
- ·UPS and redundancy
Cooling
- ·Air
- ·Rear-door heat exchanger
- ·Direct liquid cooling
- ·Hybrid approaches
- ·Thermal constraints
Connectivity
- ·Network cabling and topology
- ·Storage fabric
- ·Facility expansion risk
Partner coordination
- ·Colo / datacentre selection
- ·MEP, electrical, cooling, networking
- ·OEM specialists
GPU Cluster Architecture
Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, and queueing systems wired into a single multi-tenant operating model.
Kubernetes GPU
- ·NVIDIA GPU Operator
- ·MIG
- ·Device plugins
- ·DCGM metrics
Scheduling
- ·Slurm
- ·Ray
- ·Volcano
- ·Kueue
- ·Spot / preemptible
- ·Priority classes
Tenancy
- ·Multi-tenant namespaces
- ·Quotas
- ·Queueing
- ·Chargeback
Delivery
- ·Storage classes
- ·Model registry
- ·Image registry
- ·CI/CD for ML
Networking & Storage
Where AI clusters actually fail — and what to design before the cables go in.
Fabrics
- ·InfiniBand
- ·RoCE
- ·Spectrum-X Ethernet
- ·NVLink / NVSwitch domains
Traffic
- ·East-west traffic
- ·Failure-domain design
Storage
- ·Throughput
- ·Checkpointing
- ·Object storage
- ·Parallel filesystems
Data tiering
- ·Dataset caching
- ·Hot / warm / cold tiers
Inference Platform Engineering
Production inference for LLMs, multimodal models, and agent backends.
Runtimes
- ·vLLM
- ·SGLang
- ·Triton
- ·TensorRT-LLM
- ·NIM-style services
- ·Dynamo-style distributed inference
Performance
- ·KV-cache strategy
- ·Prefix caching
- ·Continuous batching
- ·Speculative decoding
- ·Quantisation
Routing & scale
- ·Model routing
- ·Autoscaling
- ·Multi-model serving
- ·GPU memory planning
Edge & operations
- ·API gateway
- ·Rate limiting
- ·Auth
- ·Chargeback
- ·Observability
- ·Latency / throughput benchmarking
Training & Fine-tuning
Distributed training that survives node failures, network drops, and long runs.
Frameworks
- ·PyTorch
- ·DDP
- ·FSDP
- ·DiLoCo
Pipelines
- ·Dataset pipelines
- ·Checkpoint strategy
- ·Fault tolerance
- ·Distributed dataloaders
Experimentation
- ·Experiment tracking
- ·Evaluation harnesses
- ·Fine-tuning workflows
- ·LoRA / QLoRA
Operations
- ·Training observability
- ·GPU utilisation optimisation
Private, Local & Sovereign AI
Production AI for organisations that cannot send data to public APIs.
Deployment patterns
- ·On-prem
- ·Private cloud
- ·Sovereign cloud
- ·Hybrid
- ·Air-gapped / restricted-network
Data
- ·Data-residency
- ·No public API dependency
- ·PII handling
- ·Audit trails
Platform
- ·Tenant isolation
- ·Policy enforcement
- ·Secure RAG
- ·Private vector stores
- ·Internal agent platforms
Decentralised GPU Networks
Globally distributed GPU compute, P2P coordination, and trustless verification.
Scheduling
- ·Globally distributed scheduling
- ·Latency-aware routing
- ·Fault tolerance
Network
- ·P2P architecture
- ·Miner / validator infrastructure
Economics
- ·Trustless compute verification
- ·Metering & billing
- ·Reputation and scoring
Workloads
- ·Distributed inference
- ·Distributed training coordination
Security for AI Platforms
Securing model-serving systems, agents, and multi-tenant AI infrastructure.
Model & agent
- ·Prompt-injection controls
- ·Tool-call governance
- ·Agent policy gates
- ·Model access control
Data
- ·PII scanning
- ·Secrets management
- ·Audit logs
Platform
- ·Runtime isolation
- ·Supply-chain security
- ·Container security
Compliance
- ·SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR mapping
- ·SIEM integration
SRE, Observability & FinOps
Running GPU platforms with measurable SLOs and visible unit economics.
Stack
- ·Prometheus
- ·Grafana
- ·Datadog
- ·ELK / OpenSearch
- ·NVIDIA DCGM
Signals
- ·GPU utilisation dashboards
- ·Cost per token
- ·Queue depth
- ·P50 / P95 / P99 latency
- ·Tokens / second
Operations
- ·Error budgets
- ·SLOs
- ·Incident response
- ·Runbooks
- ·Alerting
FinOps
- ·Capacity forecasting
- ·Chargeback
- ·Tenant metering
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