Networking Minerva User Guide

Case Studies

These case studies show how NVIDIA Minerva anomaly detection and correlation found the cause of infrastructure problems in AI factory clusters, in some cases before they affected workloads.

  • Pause Frame Anomaly Correlation: A switch page fault caused a restart and network congestion. NVIDIA Minerva correlated 81 anomalies into one incident and identified the root cause.

  • Performance Degradation: Jobs slowed down because adaptive routing hardware resources were exhausted. NVIDIA Minerva identified the cause, which shortened the investigation by about one to two weeks.

  • Predictive Maintenance: Log analysis detected a ConnectX NIC PCI error, so operators could remove the node from the allocation pool before a job failed.

  • Switch Upgrade Failure: During an in-service software upgrade (ISSU), NVIDIA Minerva detected a rare switch control-plane failure, so operators could stop the maintenance window before any jobs were affected.

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