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Challenge

Build a Cloud Accelerator Preemption and Job Rescheduling Replayer

Simulate spot preemption events and reconstruct KV-cache checkpointing costs for open-weight serving nodes. Formulate dynamic job migration and re-computation schedules to preserve inference SLAs.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Simulate spot preemption events and reconstruct KV-cache checkpointing costs for open-weight serving nodes. Formulate dynamic job migration and re-computation schedules to preserve inference SLAs.

Distributed Systems Reliability Engineer

Ingest simulated spot preemption notification timestamps across heterogeneous cloud worker instances.

Calculate KV-cache serialization state and transfer overhead to designated backup workers.

Replay request backlog to estimate latency penalties under varying re-computation strategies.

Invoke hosted Claude via Anthropic API to draft a preemption resiliency runbook.

Interactive preemption chaos simulator UI with worker state diagrams and SLA recovery timelines.

Construct synthetic cluster state records modeling 10 spot GPU worker preemption events over a 24-hour cycle. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

vLLM open-model serving Reference vLLM distributed inference parallelism models and KV-cache state preservation concepts.

ray-serve, anthropic, pydantic. ray-serve models multi-worker replica failover topologies and request re-routing state. Hosted Claude API for runbook generation and risk synthesis; simulation targets open-model serving logic.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Models the exact latency tradeoff between cold-restart re-prefill versus snapshot KV-cache loading.

Identifies cluster failover capacity deficits that risk dropping client queries.

Exports structured migration schedules that maintain service availability above 99 percent.

```json [ { "input": { "preempted_node": "worker-spot-08", "active_sessions": 24, "kv_cache_size_mb": 4200, "network_transfer_mbps": 1000, "target_node": "worker-spot-02", "target_node_available_ram_mb": 8000 }, "expected_output": { "migration_strategy": "transfer_cache_snapshot", "transfer_time_sec": 4.2, "sla_breach": false, "target_admissibility": "APPROVED" } }, { "input": { "preempted_node": "worker-spot-03", "active_sessions": 48, "kv_cache_size_mb": 12000, "network_transfer_mbps": 500, "target_node": "worker-spot-04", "target_node_available_ram_mb": 4000 }, "expected_output": { "migration_strategy": "evict_and_cold_recompute", "transfer_time_sec": null, "sla_breach": true, "target_admissibility": "REJECTED_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY" } } ] ```

Simulates cluster fault tolerance and failover policies purely in software without terminating active cloud nodes. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Simulates cluster fault tolerance and failover policies purely in software without terminating active cloud nodes. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Models the exact latency tradeoff between cold-restart re-prefill versus snapshot KV-cache loading. Identifies cluster failover capacity deficits that risk dropping client queries. Exports structured migration schedules that maintain service availability above 99 percent.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest simulated spot preemption notification timestamps across heterogeneous cloud worker instances. Calculate KV-cache serialization state and transfer overhead to designated backup workers. Replay request backlog to estimate latency penalties under varying re-computation strategies. Invoke hosted Claude via Anthropic API to draft a preemption resiliency runbook.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Models the exact latency tradeoff between cold-restart re-prefill versus snapshot KV-cache loading. Identifies cluster failover capacity deficits that risk dropping client queries. Exports structured migration schedules that maintain service availability above 99 percent.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Interactive preemption chaos simulator UI with worker state diagrams and SLA recovery timelines.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Simulates cluster fault tolerance and failover policies purely in software without terminating active cloud nodes.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest simulated spot preemption notification timestamps across heterogeneous cloud worker instances.

  • Calculate KV-cache serialization state and transfer overhead to designated backup workers.

  • Replay request backlog to estimate latency penalties under varying re-computation strategies.

  • Invoke hosted Claude via Anthropic API to draft a preemption resiliency runbook.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct synthetic cluster state records modeling 10 spot GPU worker preemption events over a 24-hour cycle. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Ray Serve

Action Space in the agent workflow.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest simulated spot preemption notification timestamps across heterogeneous cloud worker instances. Calcu...
  • Models the exact latency tradeoff between cold-restart re-prefill versus snapshot KV-cache loading. Identif...
  • Interactive preemption chaos simulator UI with worker state diagrams and SLA recovery timelines.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Ray Serve · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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