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In this 25-minute Tech Field Day presentation, learn how Google Cloud addresses the challenges of deploying AI infrastructure through their AI Hypercomputer Cluster Toolkit. Senior Product Manager Ilias Katsardis explains how customers struggle with quickly creating efficient cloud-based supercomputers, facing issues like performance uncertainty, troubleshooting difficulties, and costly downtime. Discover Google's solution: ClusterDirector, a foundation built on purpose-built hardware, VMs, Managed Instance Groups, and GKE, featuring strategic placement policies for optimal performance. Explore how Cluster Toolkit serves as the orchestrator for AI and HPC environments, using Terraform scripts and APIs to streamline deployment through simple blueprint configuration files. The presentation covers how this toolkit enables turnkey environments following best practices, simplifies infrastructure management, and previews upcoming features including user interfaces and potential managed services. Recorded live in Santa Clara, California on April 22, 2025, as part of AI Infrastructure Field Day.
