I have spent 16 years operating HPC clusters.
In that time I have watched hundreds of IT engineers arrive at the cluster for the first time — sharp, experienced, production-hardened — and hit the same wall.
Not because they lacked skill. Because the machine operates on a completely different contract.
The metric isn't uptime. It's throughput. A cluster can be perfectly available and perfectly failing at the same time. One node down is not a P1. It is Tuesday. The scheduler adapted in milliseconds while the alert was still loading.
Same infrastructure depth. Completely different problem.
This is a free 90-minute briefing that maps that territory honestly — what HPC is, how it works, where AI infrastructure fits, and what your path looks like from the inside.
Note: If you attended the 17 March orientation — this session covers the same ground. This briefing is for engineers who missed it.
Reserve your seat.
One session. Live only. No recording distributed.
Rajesh sends the Meet link directly.
what we cover
Part 01
The Case For HPC
Why HPC exists and what it computes that enterprise IT cannot. Work where being second to finish costs five hundred million dollars and five years. Gone. This section covers the verticals where cluster performance is the difference between first and second — and why second is nothing.
Part 02
How a Cluster Actually Works
The architecture — head node, compute nodes, scheduler, parallel filesystem, high-speed interconnect. How a job moves through the cluster from submission to result. What each component does and why it exists. This is the map most IT engineers have never been given.
Part 03
Same Engineer. New Thinking.
Six instincts IT engineers bring to HPC that need to be questioned. Not abandoned — questioned. There is a difference. Availability first. Page the on-call when a node goes down. Call the vendor when storage is slow. Each instinct is precisely right for the problem it was built to solve. HPC is a different problem.
Part 04
Same Building. Different Machine.
An HPC cluster and an AI training cluster can share a building. They are not the same machine. This section draws the boundary clearly — where HPC ends, where AI infrastructure begins, what transfers directly between them, and what is genuinely new territory.
Part 05
Three Paths. One Honest Map.
Can an IT engineer become an HPC engineer? Can they go directly to AI infrastructure? Can an HPC engineer move into AI? Three questions. Three honest answers. Your path named clearly — without vendor bias and without a sales pitch.
who this is for
IT engineers who want a practitioner's view of HPC — not a vendor's brochure.
You do not need HPC experience. You need infrastructure experience — Linux, storage, networking, servers. The session assumes you know what a production system is. It does not explain what a server is.
If you are early in your career and genuinely curious, come. The content will challenge you in the right direction.
If you are a decade into infrastructure and have been watching HPC and AI infrastructure grow from the outside — this session gives you the map you have been looking for.
This is not a course preview dressed up as a free session. It is a standalone briefing. You will leave with a clear map of the HPC world — what it is, how it differs from enterprise IT, where AI infrastructure fits, and what your path looks like. If you never enrol in anything, you will still leave with something useful.
the format
Live session on Google Meet. Questions welcome throughout — this is not a lecture with a Q&A bolted on at the end. The course is mentioned once, at the end, for those who want to know what comes next.
the instructor
Rajesh Kumar
HPC Infrastructure Architect · 16+ Years · Bengaluru, India
Rajesh has operated HPC infrastructure for sixteen years — across IISc, C-DAC Pune, GE India, and Boeing India. Scheduler, storage, network, compute, and automation simultaneously. Not as a layer specialist. Across all of them, at scale, in production.
He has never been employed by a vendor. That independence is structural — it shapes every comparative assessment, every configuration recommendation, and every opinion in his work.
He built hpc.now because the knowledge that takes years to accumulate inside HPC environments has never been properly written down for the engineers who need it most.
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One session. Live only.
Saturday 28 March, 10:00 AM IST.
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