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Your R&D team is planning to run several design-parameter sweeps with one of its primary tightly coupled high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Your team verifies that this HPC application runs successfully in parallel on 64 HB120_v2 VMs.

Based on this scenario, choose the best response for each of the following questions.

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The high-performance computing (HPC) application runs correctly on 64 HB120_v2. Should you still run some health checks?

There's no need. The application is running correctly.

I should run health checks only after every third deployment.

Yes, I should still run some health checks.

What is the recommended tool to check the health of the InfiniBand interconnect?

Intel IMB-IMP1 PingPong built with HPC-X.

Intel IMB-IMPI1 PingPong contained in the Intel MPI environment on a CentOS HPC 7.7+ Azure Marketplace image.

HPL built with HPC-X.

What is the recommended tool to check the health of the VM's memory?

IOR benchmark tool.

Intel IMP-IMP1 PingPong.

Intel MLC.

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