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Whether you're working in academia, industry, or exploring advanced AI on your own, you'll find clear explanations and hands-on examples built around tools like PyTorch, CUDA, MPI, SLURM, and multi-GPU distributed training.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith over 650 pages of rigorously tested content, this book takes you on an end-to-end journey through: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foundations of supercomputing and its role in AI workloads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractical GPU programming with CUDA and distributed systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eParallel programming with MPI on modern clusters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eEfficient training of neural networks, CNNs, and Transformers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformance optimization for deep learning at scale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistributed training with PyTorch DistributedDataParallel (DDP)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding and scaling LLMs using real biomedical and NLP datasets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eJupyter, Google Colab, and Hugging Face workflows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeployment and inference strategies for modern LLMs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll source code, configuration files, and job scripts are available in a public GitHub repository. 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