Question 660
During a multi-team AI platform review at an applied research institute, engineers report the following issue: A training job fails sporadically and system logs include GPU Xid events. The affected work supports training and inference experiments; jobs must produce reproducible, defensible technical results. Select TWO: the most appropriate action and the strongest verification of that action. (Select TWO.)
Explanation
Correct Answers
Correct corrective action. Correlate supported GPU error counters and Xid or ECC events with driver logs, diagnostics and affected workloads before deciding on remediation or hardware replacement. This fits the specific reported issue: A training job fails sporadically and system logs include GPU Xid events. The corresponding failure being reduced is: Ignoring recurring accelerator errors or replacing parts without evidence can extend outages and overlook software or platform causes.
Correct independent evidence. A reproducible fault is linked to device identifiers, event history and a documented diagnostic action with a verified recovery result. 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. Maintain an inventory of GPU systems, drivers, firmware, network devices and approved configuration versions with controlled rollout and reconciliation. This choice concerns cluster inventory firmware and configuration baseline and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A training job fails sporadically and system logs include GPU Xid events', which calls for reasoning about gpu reliability events and diagnostic triage. The targeted response is: Correlate supported GPU error counters and Xid or ECC events with driver logs, diagnostics and affected workloads before deciding on remediation or hardware replacement.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. An authorized VM sees the expected supported accelerator profile and passes workload and isolation tests under simultaneous tenant demand. This choice concerns virtual gpus and gpu sharing approaches and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A training job fails sporadically and system logs include GPU Xid events', which calls for reasoning about gpu reliability events and diagnostic triage. The targeted response is: Correlate supported GPU error counters and Xid or ECC events with driver logs, diagnostics and affected workloads before deciding on remediation or hardware replacement.
Not the most direct the action-and-evidence pair for these facts. Interpret GPU compute utilization, device-memory occupancy, power draw and temperature together over time instead of using one metric as proof of efficient execution. This choice concerns gpu utilization memory and power telemetry interpretation and may be valid in another design. But this case reports 'A training job fails sporadically and system logs include GPU Xid events', which calls for reasoning about gpu reliability events and diagnostic triage. The targeted response is: Correlate supported GPU error counters and Xid or ECC events with driver logs, diagnostics and affected workloads before deciding on remediation or hardware replacement.