Skip to main content
Challenge

Build a Cloud Accelerator Procurement and Reservation Simulator

Simulate capacity procurement strategies across on-demand and reserved instances for open-model serving. Synthesize multi-cloud reservation proposals using hosted Claude.

EngineeringHosted by Vera
Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Simulate capacity procurement strategies across on-demand and reserved instances for open-model serving. Synthesize multi-cloud reservation proposals using hosted Claude.

Infrastructure Capacity Planner

Ingest historical inference request traffic patterns and multi-cloud accelerator instance pricing sheets.

Model baseline and peak capacity demand curves across simulated 1-year and 3-year commitment tiers.

Prompt hosted Claude to critique procurement risk, spot preemption vulnerability, and cost optimization levers.

Assemble a comprehensive procurement proposal dossier with projected cash flow impact.

Spreadsheet-style simulation UI with downloadable procurement commitment briefs.

Tabular CSV files containing normalized spot, on-demand, and reserved pricing for cloud GPU instances. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

AWS Neuron documentation Incorporates AWS accelerator instance deployment principles (such as Inf2 and Trn1 instances) into procurement models.

optuna, anthropic. Optuna optimizes the mathematical allocation between on-demand, reserved, and spot capacity to minimize financial cost. Hosted a currently available hosted Claude model accessed via API; models and costs are evaluated analytically.

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.

Computes optimal instance blend minimizing overall financial spend for a given SLA threshold.

Integrates hosted Claude analysis to explain contract commitment risks.

Outputs clear tabular cost comparisons between procurement scenarios.

```json [ { "input": { "workload_type": "ProductionServing", "peak_gpus_needed": 32, "baseline_gpus_needed": 16, "on_demand_rate_hourly": 3, "reserved_1yr_rate_hourly": 1.8 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_reserved_count": 16, "recommended_on_demand_count": 16, "annual_projected_cost": 294336, "procurement_rationale": "Covering the steady 16 GPU baseline with 1-year reserved instances yields a 40% cost reduction on constant load." } }, { "input": { "workload_type": "AdHocResearch", "peak_gpus_needed": 8, "baseline_gpus_needed": 0, "on_demand_rate_hourly": 3, "reserved_1yr_rate_hourly": 1.8 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_reserved_count": 0, "recommended_on_demand_count": 8, "annual_projected_cost": 52560, "procurement_rationale": "Zero baseline usage indicates high variance. Pure on-demand or spot procurement prevents unutilized reserved capital waste." } } ] ```

Procurement simulations are purely financial modeling exercises without issuing cloud reservation API purchases. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Procurement simulations are purely financial modeling exercises without issuing cloud reservation API purchases. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Computes optimal instance blend minimizing overall financial spend for a given SLA threshold. Integrates hosted Claude analysis to explain contract commitment risks. Outputs clear tabular cost comparisons between procurement scenarios.

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 historical inference request traffic patterns and multi-cloud accelerator instance pricing sheets. Model baseline and peak capacity demand curves across simulated 1-year and 3-year commitment tiers. Prompt hosted Claude to critique procurement risk, spot preemption vulnerability, and cost optimization levers. Assemble a comprehensive procurement proposal dossier with projected cash flow impact.

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

Computes optimal instance blend minimizing overall financial spend for a given SLA threshold. Integrates hosted Claude analysis to explain contract commitment risks. Outputs clear tabular cost comparisons between procurement scenarios.

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

Spreadsheet-style simulation UI with downloadable procurement commitment briefs.

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

Procurement simulations are purely financial modeling exercises without issuing cloud reservation API purchases.

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 historical inference request traffic patterns and multi-cloud accelerator instance pricing sheets.

  • Model baseline and peak capacity demand curves across simulated 1-year and 3-year commitment tiers.

  • Prompt hosted Claude to critique procurement risk, spot preemption vulnerability, and cost optimization levers.

  • Assemble a comprehensive procurement proposal dossier with projected cash flow impact.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Tabular CSV files containing normalized spot, on-demand, and reserved pricing for cloud GPU instances. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Optuna

Hyperparameter Optimization

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest historical inference request traffic patterns and multi-cloud accelerator instance pricing sheets. M...
  • Computes optimal instance blend minimizing overall financial spend for a given SLA threshold. Integrates ho...
  • Spreadsheet-style simulation UI with downloadable procurement commitment briefs.
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.

View technical recipe

Configured tools

Action Space
  • Optuna · 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

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

Frequently Asked Questions about Build a Cloud Accelerator Procurement and Reservation Simulator