Cluster Integrity Assessment
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Overview
Enterprise AI and HPC clusters represent critical infrastructure investments, yet many organizations experience performance bottlenecks, hardware failures, and poor resource utilization that directly impact productivity and ROI. Long job queues, frequent node failures, and inefficient GPU utilization cost enterprises millions in lost productivity while frustrating data science teams.
Penguin Solutions® Cluster Integrity Assessment provides expert analysis, testing, and remediation recommendations to transform underperforming clusters into high-performance AI and HPC infrastructure. Using proven methodologies, industry-leading tools, and our proprietary diagnostics, we identify root causes of performance issues and deliver comprehensive remediation plans.
Our recommendations drive measurable improvements in cluster performance, including enhanced resource utilization, reduced wait times, faster job completion, and fewer hardware-related disruptions to user workflows.
Key Benefits
• Expert analysis
Leverage 20+ years of experience across hundreds of cluster optimizations
• Clear remediation roadmap
Receive specific, actionable recommendations tailored to your cluster environment
• Improve infrastructure ROI
Identify optimization opportunities to better utilize your hardware investment
• Enhance system reliability
Pinpoint and improve remediation of issues causing node failures and downtime
• Optimize resource utilization
Uncover inefficiencies in GPU and compute resource allocation
Common customer pain points
Many organizations lack adequate monitoring, leaving administrators unaware that expensive hardware is idle or being used inefficiently. Often, user feedback about delayed job starts or long run times become the urgent catalyst for identifying and solving cluster performance issues.
While industry-standard diagnostics collect metrics indicating problems exist, they rarely identify the root causes or provide a clear remediation path. Resolving these complex issues often requires specialized expertise in AI and HPC infrastructure optimization.
Penguin Solutions cluster performance testing
Penguin Solutions’ one-to-two-week comprehensive testing and assessment service—depending on cluster size—addresses critical aspects of AI and HPC cluster performance, from individual component reliability to end-to-end system optimization.
In addition to using industry-standard testing tools, we use proprietary diagnostics included in Penguin Solutions ICE ClusterWare™ and other tests developed specifically for AI and HPC environments to identify and address cluster optimization issues that conventional tools miss.
We target key infrastructure areas that directly impact cluster performance:
Cluster reliability - Assess cluster reliability using uptime percentage, failure rates, and mean time between failures (MTBF).
High-speed network performance – Evaluate GPU-to-GPU communication critical for distributed deep learning and parallel computing workloads, measuring bandwidth, latency, and data transfer efficiency.
Ethernet network speed – Analyze node-to-node Ethernet network speeds, measuring average, maximum, and minimum speeds to assess communication efficiency across cluster nodes.
Storage capacity and performance – Test storage performance read and write speeds as well as Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) to evaluate data access efficiency and storage system performance.
Node availability for job submissions – Measure uptime, downtime, and failure rates of each node to determine system stability and resilience while identifying maintenance needs.
Thermal measurements – Monitor CPU and GPU temperatures across nodes to avoid performance throttling and hardware failures due to overheating. Tests measure minimum, maximum, and average temperature.
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling system thermals – Evaluate GPU and CPU direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, if present, by measuring coolant temperatures, inlet and outlet differentials, and cooling efficiency.
Expert remediation recommendations
Penguin Solutions Cluster Integrity Assessment delivers actionable recommendations designed to provide both immediate improvements and long-term guidance for optimal cluster operations. Customers receive a detailed performance assessment report with prioritized remediation plans that help focus resources on changes with the greatest impact.
Solving performance issues demands deep technical expertise across the entire AI and HPC stack combined with practical implementation experience. Our team delivers both based on more than 20 years of deploying and managing clusters—up to 24,000 GPUs per solution—with more than 2.2 billion GPU runtime hours in total.
Penguin Solutions’ remediation expertise stems from hands-on experience optimizing hundreds of AI and HPC clusters across diverse workloads, enabling our experts to identify and resolve complex performance issues others typically miss. This extensive real-world experience translates into optimization strategies tailored to your organization's critical workloads and business objectives.
Technical capabilities
We maintain deep expertise across all major GPU platforms from NVIDIA and AMD, including the latest-generation HPC and AI architectures as well as legacy hardware common in enterprise deployments.
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Our network infrastructure expertise spans all major interconnect technologies including InfiniBand networks, high-speed Ethernet implementations, and specialized GPU interconnect technologies.
We bring extensive experience with diverse storage architectures including parallel file systems, network-attached storage solutions, and distributed storage systems. This comprehensive technical expertise ensures we can successfully meet the unique challenges and requirements of modern AI and HPC cluster infrastructure.
Key benefits and expected outcomes
Organizations that engage our cluster optimization services and implement our remediation plans experience significant improvements across multiple performance dimensions translating directly into increased productivity, accelerated AI initiatives, and improved user satisfaction.
Why choose us
Penguin Solutions stands out in AI and HPC cluster optimization through deep industry expertise spanning over two decades. Our experience covers clusters of all sizes—from small departmental installations to massive supercomputing facilities with thousands of nodes and complex multi-tenant requirements.
Our proven track record includes successful engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises, hyperscalers and cloud service providers, leading research institutions, and innovative startups across Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Government agencies, and other industries.
This breadth of experience ensures we understand the unique challenges you face, and we adapt our approach to meet your specific needs and constraints.
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