What must you do before you can create MIG instances on a GPU?
Why A is the answer
Enable MIG mode
MIG mode must be on before you create GPU instances.
In detail
- MIG mode must be on before you create GPU instances.
- Instances cannot exist before that.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
An admin enables MIG mode first, and then creates instances.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD A["Physical layer"] --> B["MIG: GPU instances"] A --> C["BlueField: network platform"]
mindmap
root((BCM))
Head node
High availability
cmsh
Category
Shared settings
Software image
Node OS
Workloads
Slurm
Enroot and Pyxisflowchart LR S0["Enable MIG mode"] --> S1["Create GPU instances"] --> S2["Run work"]
Key point: Enable MIG mode first.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Install Fabric Manager on the GPU node
- Fabric Manager is about NVSwitch.
- C. Disable the GPU
- A disabled GPU cannot be partitioned.
- D. Stop all network links
- Network links are unrelated.