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+from pathlib import Path
+import subprocess
+import json
+import os
+import yaml
+import logging
+from examples_utils.paperspace_utils.dataset_upload_checker import check_files_match_metadata
+
+def check_files_exist(files: [str], dirname: str):
+    dirpath = Path(dirname)
+    sub_directories = [str(f) for f in dirpath.iterdir() if f.is_dir()]
+    for filename in files:
+        full_path = str(dirpath/filename)
+        if full_path not in sub_directories:
+            logging.warning(filename + " not found in " + dirname)
+        else:
+            dataset_sub_directories = [str(f) for f in Path(full_path).iterdir()]
+            if full_path+"/gradient_dataset_metadata.json" in dataset_sub_directories:
+                check_files_match_metadata(full_path,False)
+            else:
+                logging.warning("Metadata file not found in "+ full_path)
+
+#Check that the number of detected IPUs is correct
+def check_num_pod_expected(logger:logging.Logger):
+    pod_type = os.getenv("GRAPHCORE_POD_TYPE")
+    expected_ipu_num = pod_type.replace("pod","")
+
+    num_ipus = os.getenv("NUM_AVAILABLE_IPU", "0")
+
+    if expected_ipu_num != num_ipus:
+        logger.warning("Incorrect number of IPUs found "+ num_ipus+" expected "+ expected_ipu_num)
+    else:
+        logger.info("Correct number IPUs found")
+
+def main():
+    logger = logging.getLogger()
+    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    # Check that the datasets have mounted as expected
+
+    # Gather the datasets expected from the settings.yaml
+    with open("settings.yaml") as f:
+        my_dict = yaml.safe_load(f)
+        datasets = my_dict["integrations"].keys()
+
+    # Check that dataset exists and if a metadata file is found check that all files in the metadata file exist
+    check_files_exist(datasets, "./datasets")
+
+    # Check that files are symlinked correctly - this needs to be manually edited for each runtime
+    expected_exe_cache = ["fine-tuning-bert", "kge_training"]
+    check_files_exist(expected_exe_cache, "/tmp/exe_cache")
+
+main()
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