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THE BOTTLENECK
4-day wait times for debug jobs caused by massive MPI fragmentation.
THE TECHNICAL FIX
Implemented Slurm Fairshare decay
Created high-priority "Debug" QOS
Enabled Backfill Scheduling
THE RESULT
Cluster utilization jumped from 72% to 94% within 48 hours.
Leading HFT Firm
THE BOTTLENECK
Unpredictable cluster outages delaying alpha research.
THE TECHNICAL FIX
Implemented self-healing automation suite
Developed predictive monitoring
Created proactive alerting tools
THE RESULT
Cluster outages reduced from an average of 1 every 3 months to 0 over a 12 month period.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
THE BOTTLENECK
Simulation workloads stalled at 30% utilization due to NFS storage I/O starvation.
THE TECHNICAL FIX
Deployed WEKA parallel filesystem
Optimized GPUDirect Storage to bypass CPU
Tuned kernel read_ahead_kb parameters
THE RESULT
Average simulation run time reduced from 4 hours to 45 minutes.
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