Applied AI & Compute Operations

AI Literacy for Infrastructure Workers

This course introduces the vocabulary and physical realities of AI-factory operations to workers entering data-center trades from electrical, mechanical, or general facilities backgrounds.

Python & Linux for AI Operations

This course covers the Linux command-line environment and Python scripting skills an AI operations technician needs to support GPU cluster work, without assuming prior programming experience.

Prerequisite: AIO 1901; CORE 1003

GPU Cluster Bring-Up & Commissioning

This course covers the bring-up, burn-in, and acceptance testing of GPU compute nodes and racks in an AI-factory data hall, using NVIDIA VR200 NVL72 (190-230 kW/rack, fully liquid-cooled) and GB300 NVL72 (132-142 kW/rack) as reference platforms.

Prerequisite: AIO 1902

AI Fabric Operations (InfiniBand / RoCE)

This course covers the scale-out network fabric that connects GPU nodes into a training or inference cluster, covering both InfiniBand and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) fabric technologies as alternative implementations of the same lossless, low-latency transport requirement.

Prerequisite: AIO 2901

Scheduler & Tenancy Operations (Slurm, Kubernetes, MIG)

This course covers workload scheduling and multi-tenant GPU allocation on a commissioned AI-factory cluster, using Slurm and Kubernetes as the two dominant scheduling frameworks.

Prerequisite: AIO 2901

Model Serving, Inference Ops & Observability

This course covers the operation of production inference services on a commissioned GPU cluster, distinct from model development or training.

Prerequisite: AIO 2903

AI Factory Economics — Tokens, Utilization, PUE/WUE

This course covers the economic and efficiency metrics used to evaluate an AI factory's operating performance.

Prerequisite: AIO 2904

Responsible AI & Sovereign Compute Controls

This course covers the operational controls that keep AI-factory compute and data within a defined sovereignty and governance boundary, a requirement increasingly attached to government, defense-adjacent, and regulated-industry tenancy contracts.

Prerequisite: AIO 2903

AI Factory Capstone — Live Site Practicum

This capstone is a supervised production practicum conducted on live AI-factory infrastructure rather than a classroom course.

Prerequisite: AIO 2901; AIO 2902; AIO 2903; AIO 2904; AIO 2905; AIO 2906