Research Infra 101: Server & Environment
Introduction Modern AI research is rarely done locally. Whether you are fine-tuning LLMs or training diffusion models, you will almost always work on remote servers, and often on HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters. A single server feels like a big computer without a GUI. But once you step into a Slurm cluster, the logic changes completely. Many new researchers get lost here, spending more time on setup and queue errors than on research. ...