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GPU Supercluster / Training Compute (A100/H100/B200) Distributed Training Framework Data Lake / Object Storage (Petabyte Scale) Data Pipeline / ETL for Training Data (Spark, Ray Data) Checkpoint Storage (High-speed NVMe + S3) Experiment Tracking / MLOps Platform (W&B, MLflow) Model Registry & Versioning Tokenization / Data Processing Service Evaluation Harness / Benchmarking (HELM, LM-Eval) Container Orchestration (Kubernetes for Training) Artifact Registry / Container Registry Vector Database for Evaluation / RAG Eval Inference Preview / Base Model Serving (for eval) Distributed File System (Lustre, JuiceFS, Alluxio) Queuing / Job Scheduler for Training Dataset Versioning / Data Catalog (DVC, LakeFS) Log Management for Training Logs Security Scanning & Data Filtering (PII, Toxic, CSAM) Options and prices come straight from our research sheets for a small scale foundation model project. Prices are estimates and change often — always confirm on the provider's page before committing. 