Lab L13 · Hardware

Read the Box

  • MVP set
  • ≈ 35 min
  • Interactive version coming

A guided walk-through of a 4-GPU server and its topology, from the rack down to the board. Read the topology matrix and find the constraint.

What you’ll practise

  1. Reading a server’s PCIe and NUMA topology
  2. Spotting power, slot and cooling constraints before a purchase
  3. Explaining a hardware constraint to a platform lead in plain words

In the book