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Build a New-Cluster GPU Topology and Bandwidth Acceptance Validator

Parse DCGM link telemetry during burn-in. Validate empirical cluster topology against hardware manifests and generate acceptance reports using hosted Claude to identify miswired or underperforming interconnects.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Parse DCGM link telemetry during burn-in. Validate empirical cluster topology against hardware manifests and generate acceptance reports using hosted Claude to identify miswired or underperforming interconnects.

Cluster Infrastructure Hardware Engineer

Ingest initial NVLink CRC rates and PCIe bandwidth telemetry from newly racked cluster nodes.

Compare empirical communication latency and link matrices against the expected hardware procurement manifest.

Query hosted Claude API to synthesize a burn-in acceptance report identifying miswired links.

Output a cluster acceptance JSON payload to unblock inventory provisioning or trigger recabling.

Terminal CLI and automated JSON report generator for cluster provisioning.

Synthetic simplified app records of DCGM fabric error logs, PCIe AER records, and JSON hardware procurement manifests. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

NVIDIA DCGM exporter Uses DCGM exporter telemetry counters to validate NVLink error metrics and PCIe throughput against manifests.

pydantic-ai, anthropic-claude, fastapi. Validates structured multi-GPU topology link matrices and enforces acceptance schema definitions. Hosted Claude API for burn-in diagnostics; strictly remote API calls.

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.

Identifies specific GPU-to-GPU link pairs failing bandwidth expectations during burn-in.

Distinguishes between manifest mismatches and physical connector degradation.

Outputs concrete hardware remediation steps (e.g., recable NVLink topology).

Produces valid acceptance validation JSON payloads without live restarts.

```json [ { "input": { "node_name": "compute-dgx-new-14", "expected_manifest_bandwidth_gbps": 450, "gpu_pairs": [ { "gpu_a": 0, "gpu_b": 1, "nvlink_crc_errors": 0, "bandwidth_gbps": 450 }, { "gpu_a": 2, "gpu_b": 3, "nvlink_crc_errors": 184, "bandwidth_gbps": 75.2 } ] }, "expected_output": { "node_status": "FAILED_BURN_IN", "impacted_link": "GPU_2_TO_GPU_3", "error_type": "BANDWIDTH_MISMATCH", "technician_repair_plan": [ "Inspect physical NVLink mezzanine connector between socket 2 and socket 3.", "Clean optical pins and reseat link module prior to re-running burn-in suite." ], "severity": "BLOCKING" } }, { "input": { "node_name": "compute-dgx-new-15", "expected_manifest_bandwidth_gbps": 450, "gpu_pairs": [ { "gpu_a": 0, "gpu_b": 1, "nvlink_crc_errors": 0, "bandwidth_gbps": 450 }, { "gpu_a": 1, "gpu_b": 2, "nvlink_crc_errors": 0, "bandwidth_gbps": 450 } ] }, "expected_output": { "node_status": "ACCEPTED", "impacted_link": null, "error_type": "NONE", "technician_repair_plan": [], "severity": "NONE" } } ] ```

Read-only telemetry and manifest analysis. Does not perform physical power-cycling. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Read-only telemetry and manifest analysis. Does not perform physical power-cycling. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Identifies specific GPU-to-GPU link pairs failing bandwidth expectations during burn-in. Distinguishes between manifest mismatches and physical connector degradation. Outputs concrete hardware remediation steps (e.g., recable NVLink topology). Produces valid acceptance validation JSON payloads without live restarts.

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 initial NVLink CRC rates and PCIe bandwidth telemetry from newly racked cluster nodes. Compare empirical communication latency and link matrices against the expected hardware procurement manifest. Query hosted Claude API to synthesize a burn-in acceptance report identifying miswired links. Output a cluster acceptance JSON payload to unblock inventory provisioning or trigger recabling.

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

Identifies specific GPU-to-GPU link pairs failing bandwidth expectations during burn-in. Distinguishes between manifest mismatches and physical connector degradation. Outputs concrete hardware remediation steps (e.g., recable NVLink topology). Produces valid acceptance validation JSON payloads without live restarts.

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

Terminal CLI and automated JSON report generator for cluster provisioning.

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

Read-only telemetry and manifest analysis. Does not perform physical power-cycling.

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 initial NVLink CRC rates and PCIe bandwidth telemetry from newly racked cluster nodes.

  • Compare empirical communication latency and link matrices against the expected hardware procurement manifest.

  • Query hosted Claude API to synthesize a burn-in acceptance report identifying miswired links.

  • Output a cluster acceptance JSON payload to unblock inventory provisioning or trigger recabling.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic simplified app records of DCGM fabric error logs, PCIe AER records, and JSON hardware procurement manifests. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Pydantic AI

Typed Python agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest initial NVLink CRC rates and PCIe bandwidth telemetry from newly racked cluster nodes. Compare empir...
  • Identifies specific GPU-to-GPU link pairs failing bandwidth expectations during burn-in. Distinguishes betw...
  • Terminal CLI and automated JSON report generator for cluster provisioning.
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

Workflow tasks

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