Two hands-on lab simulators
Real type-in terminals against a stateful simulated cluster: command history, tab completion, man pages, and answer keys on demand.
- Nest — NVIDIA cluster operations: Base Command Manager (cmsh), Slurm, Kubernetes GPU scheduling, DGX H100–H200. 14 hands-on labs and a 51-question practice exam.
- ROCnest — AMD Instinct & ROCm: MI300X, rocm-smi, amd-smi, Infinity Fabric diagnostics, the AMD Kubernetes device plugin. 9 labs and 33 questions.
Why it exists
GPU clusters are the most expensive classrooms on earth. An hour on real hardware costs more than most people can spend on learning. Project Nest Egg keeps the practice free: $0 to start, 0 GPUs needed, 2 vendor stacks.
Who it's for
Career-changers, self-taught engineers, students, and AMD-stack engineers learning without an employer's cluster behind them.