A BCM node will not provision. Where do you start?
Why B is the answer
Its boot and network settings
Provisioning depends on network boot and the head node.
In detail
- Provisioning depends on network boot and the head node.
- It depends on the head node too.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A node will not provision, so an admin checks its network boot settings.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Install head node"] --> B["Software images"] B --> C["Provision nodes"] C --> D["Set up Slurm or Kubernetes"] D --> E["Run workloads"]
sequenceDiagram participant H as Head node participant I as Software image participant C as Category participant N as Compute nodes H->>I: Holds the OS image I->>C: Assigned to a category C->>N: Nodes boot and provision H->>N: Updates when the image changes
flowchart LR S0["Check boot settings"] --> S1["Check network"] --> S2["Check head node"]
Key point: Provisioning depends on network boot.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. The Slurm partition of the last job
- That job has not started.
- C. The user's training code
- Training code has not run.
- D. The model's learning rate
- A learning rate is unrelated.