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Build a Datacenter Rack Airflow Deficit and Workload Evacuation Planner

Analyze multi-chassis intake and exhaust thermal sensor telemetry across server racks. Formulate proactive workload evacuation and fan throttling mitigation plans with hosted Claude.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Analyze multi-chassis intake and exhaust thermal sensor telemetry across server racks. Formulate proactive workload evacuation and fan throttling mitigation plans with hosted Claude.

Facility Systems and Infrastructure Engineer

Ingest rack-level inlet temperature and server exhaust temperature metrics from DCGM telemetry.

Identify thermal recirculations and localized hot-aisle air dams exceeding design limits.

Use hosted Claude API to formulate an emergency workload redistribution and job migration runbook.

Produce an evacuation schedule JSON prioritizing jobs by checkpoint maturity and node heat.

Thermal heat-map web view displaying rack chassis elevations with evacuation triggers.

Synthetic rack environmental sensor records and node temperatures in standard Prometheus format. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

NVIDIA DCGM exporter Leverages DCGM exporter temperature gauges and chassis thermal sensors to assess rack heat.

pydantic-ai, anthropic-claude. Enforces strict schemas for environmental telemetry feeds and evacuation runbooks. Hosted Claude API for technical thermal runbook synthesis; no local execution.

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.

Calculates delta-T between inlet and exhaust across rack U-positions accurately.

Triggers workload evacuation when inlet temperature exceeds ASHRAE envelope limits.

Prioritizes evacuation of high-wattage training jobs before low-wattage inference workloads.

Generates safe execution runbook without modifying physical BMS cooling setpoints.

```json [ { "input": { "rack_id": "RACK-E04", "inlet_ambient_c": 28.5, "servers": [ { "u_slot": "U18-U22", "node_id": "node-18", "inlet_c": 34, "exhaust_c": 68, "active_job": "open-deepseek-train", "power_kw": 9.8 }, { "u_slot": "U24-U28", "node_id": "node-24", "inlet_c": 36.5, "exhaust_c": 72, "active_job": "open-llama-inf", "power_kw": 4.2 } ] }, "expected_output": { "containment_breach": true, "hot_spot_u_slot": "U24-U28", "evacuation_priority_order": [ { "node_id": "node-18", "action": "CHECKPOINT_AND_DRAIN", "reason": "High 9.8kW power contribution to local hot dam" }, { "node_id": "node-24", "action": "MIGRATE_REPLICAS", "reason": "Critically elevated inlet temperature (36.5C)" } ], "estimated_power_reduction_kw": 14, "technician_notice": "Inspect top-of-rack blanking panels and rear heat exchanger flow." } }, { "input": { "rack_id": "RACK-A01", "inlet_ambient_c": 21, "servers": [ { "u_slot": "U10-U14", "node_id": "node-10", "inlet_c": 22, "exhaust_c": 45, "active_job": "open-batch-eval", "power_kw": 5 } ] }, "expected_output": { "containment_breach": false, "hot_spot_u_slot": null, "evacuation_priority_order": [], "estimated_power_reduction_kw": 0, "technician_notice": "Rack operates within normal thermal margins." } } ] ```

Thermal plans are advisory only. Does not actuate datacenter cooling plant or cut server power. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Thermal plans are advisory only. Does not actuate datacenter cooling plant or cut server power. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Calculates delta-T between inlet and exhaust across rack U-positions accurately. Triggers workload evacuation when inlet temperature exceeds ASHRAE envelope limits. Prioritizes evacuation of high-wattage training jobs before low-wattage inference workloads. Generates safe execution runbook without modifying physical BMS cooling setpoints.

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 rack-level inlet temperature and server exhaust temperature metrics from DCGM telemetry. Identify thermal recirculations and localized hot-aisle air dams exceeding design limits. Use hosted Claude API to formulate an emergency workload redistribution and job migration runbook. Produce an evacuation schedule JSON prioritizing jobs by checkpoint maturity and node heat.

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

Calculates delta-T between inlet and exhaust across rack U-positions accurately. Triggers workload evacuation when inlet temperature exceeds ASHRAE envelope limits. Prioritizes evacuation of high-wattage training jobs before low-wattage inference workloads. Generates safe execution runbook without modifying physical BMS cooling setpoints.

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

Thermal heat-map web view displaying rack chassis elevations with evacuation triggers.

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

Thermal plans are advisory only. Does not actuate datacenter cooling plant or cut server power.

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 rack-level inlet temperature and server exhaust temperature metrics from DCGM telemetry.

  • Identify thermal recirculations and localized hot-aisle air dams exceeding design limits.

  • Use hosted Claude API to formulate an emergency workload redistribution and job migration runbook.

  • Produce an evacuation schedule JSON prioritizing jobs by checkpoint maturity and node heat.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic rack environmental sensor records and node temperatures in standard Prometheus format. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Pydantic AI

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Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Ingest rack-level inlet temperature and server exhaust temperature metrics from DCGM telemetry. Identify th...
  • Calculates delta-T between inlet and exhaust across rack U-positions accurately. Triggers workload evacuati...
  • Thermal heat-map web view displaying rack chassis elevations with evacuation triggers.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Pydantic AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Pydantic AI · 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

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