GPU node health checks integrated into Azure Kubernetes service via node problem detector

Introduction Large AI model training can take months to complete on very large AI supercomputers. These AI supercomputers consist of many high-end GPU’s (e.g NVIDIA A100 or H100) all connected with InfiniBand. The Azure NDv5 has 8 H100 GPU’s, each connected directly by NVlink 4 (on a node)…

27/06/2024Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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