AI Infrastructure, GPU Serving & MLOps (CUDA, Triton, TGI) › 14. Kubernetes for AI Workloads: NVIDIA GPU Operator, Device Plugins & Time-Slicing vs Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)

Course Syllabus

01. NVIDIA GPU Architecture: Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), Tensor Cores, CUDA Cores & HBM3 Memory Bandwidth 02. GPU Memory Hierarchy: Registers, Shared Memory (SRAM), L1/L2 Caches & High-Bandwidth VRAM 03. CUDA Programming Basics: Writing Custom GPU Kernels in C++/CUDA & Triton Python DSL

04. The KV Cache Bottleneck: Memory Footprint Calculations & PagedAttention Virtual Memory Architecture 05. Dynamic & Continuous Batching (Iteration-Level Scheduling) vs Static Batching in LLM Serving 06. Production Benchmark: vLLM vs HuggingFace TGI (Text Generation Inference) vs NVIDIA Triton Inference Server 07. Speculative Decoding & Medusa Multi-Head Decoding for 2-3x Faster Token Generation

08. Distributed AI Parallelism Paradigms: Data Parallelism (DP), Tensor Parallelism (TP), Pipeline Parallelism (PP) 09. Tensor Parallelism in Action: Megatron-LM Matrix Splitting across NVLink & NVSwitch Networks 10. DeepSpeed & PyTorch FSDP (Fully Sharded Data Parallel): Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO-1, ZeRO-2, ZeRO-3)

11. MLOps Foundations: Model Versioning, Artifact Registries & Lineage Tracking with MLflow and Weights & Biases 12. Automated Continuous Training Pipelines with Kubeflow Pipelines & GitHub Actions CI/CD for AI Models 13. Feature Stores in Production (Feast): Real-Time Online Feature Retrieval vs Offline Batch Processing

14. Kubernetes for AI Workloads: NVIDIA GPU Operator, Device Plugins & Time-Slicing vs Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) 15. Horizontal Pod Auto-Scaling (HPA) for LLM Services based on TTFT (Time to First Token) & Queue Depth 16. Serverless GPU Architecture: Ray Serve, Modal & RunPod for Auto-Scaling AI APIs with Zero Cold Starts 17. Observability for GenAI: OpenLLMetry, Arize Phoenix, Langfuse & Prometheus GPU Utilization Metrics 18. Enterprise Cloud Cost Optimization: Spot GPU Instances, Multi-Cloud Orchestration & Slicing VRAM Costs