Question 520
During a multi-team AI platform review at an applied research institute, engineers report the following issue: A GPU training host spends substantial CPU time on infrastructure packet processing. The affected work supports training and inference experiments; jobs must produce reproducible, defensible technical results. Choose TWO: one corrective approach and one result demonstrating it works. (Select TWO.)
Explanation
Correct Answers
Correct corrective action. Associate a BlueField DPU with offloading selected networking, storage and security infrastructure work from host CPUs while meeting supported deployment constraints. This fits the specific reported issue: A GPU training host spends substantial CPU time on infrastructure packet processing. The corresponding failure being reduced is: Sending every infrastructure service through application CPUs can increase contention and weaken independent control over infrastructure functions.
Correct independent evidence. A measured offload configuration performs the intended network or security service while preserving application CPU resources and policy. This verifies the corrective approach for the affected training and inference experiments instead of treating an architecture diagram alone as success.
Incorrect Answers
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. An end-to-end cost and capacity study covers representative utilization, deployment lead time, data movement and required service levels. This choice concerns cloud elasticity versus on-prem capacity tradeoffs and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A GPU training host spends substantial CPU time on infrastructure packet processing', which calls for reasoning about bluefield dpu infrastructure offload. The targeted response is: Associate a BlueField DPU with offloading selected networking, storage and security infrastructure work from host CPUs while meeting supported deployment constraints.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. Identify NVLink and NVSwitch as high-bandwidth GPU-to-GPU connectivity choices for supported scale-up platforms and match the topology to communication-intensive jobs. This choice concerns scale-up gpu interconnects within an accelerated system and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A GPU training host spends substantial CPU time on infrastructure packet processing', which calls for reasoning about bluefield dpu infrastructure offload. The targeted response is: Associate a BlueField DPU with offloading selected networking, storage and security infrastructure work from host CPUs while meeting supported deployment constraints.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. Use supported DPU infrastructure functions to separate privileged platform networking or security services from untrusted host workload control when appropriate. This choice concerns dpu isolation and secure infrastructure services and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A GPU training host spends substantial CPU time on infrastructure packet processing', which calls for reasoning about bluefield dpu infrastructure offload. The targeted response is: Associate a BlueField DPU with offloading selected networking, storage and security infrastructure work from host CPUs while meeting supported deployment constraints.