Validate GPU Cluster Readiness Before AI Workloads Land
A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload.

A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload. Even when every GPU, network link, and pod reports healthy, a 512-GPU training job can underperform or fail.
The cause may be one slow GPU, a link that degrades under load, or a configuration that quietly routes traffic over a slower path. Operators may not discover the problem until hours into the run or until a customer files a ticket.
First reported by Nvidia.com.
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