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Challenge

Build a Thermal Incident Post-Mortem and Cold-Aisle Remediation Advisor

Process multi-sensor datacenter temperature logs to reconstruct localized thermal runaway events. Hosted Claude analyzes hotspot trajectories and drafts cold-aisle containment action items.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Process multi-sensor datacenter temperature logs to reconstruct localized thermal runaway events. Hosted Claude analyzes hotspot trajectories and drafts cold-aisle containment action items.

Datacenter Facilities Manager

Extract time-series temperature measurements from rack intake, exhaust, and cold-aisle floor tile sensors.

Detect spatial heat gradient anomalies indicating air recirculation or perforated floor tile blockages.

Submit thermal incident histories to hosted Claude to generate an engineering post-mortem draft.

Output a remediation plan detailing rack blanking panel fixes, fan curve modifications, and workload re-balancing.

Multi-tier browser interface with rack temperature heatmaps and downloadable incident summaries.

Construct synthetic CSV files modeling rack row temperatures, perforated tile CFM flows, and incident timestamps. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

NVIDIA DCGM exporter Leverages DCGM exporter telemetry concepts for multi-GPU thermal monitoring and rack-level thermal tracking.

mastra-ai, anthropic, pydantic, pandas. Mastra AI orchestrates deterministic workflow steps and tool executions for building facility incident reporting agents. Hosted Claude API for contextual thermal pattern interpretation and engineering post-mortem generation.

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.

Isolates the specific server rack and U-position exhibiting the initial thermal gradient breach.

Generates post-mortem text identifying recirculation vs lack of chilled airflow causes.

Specifies concrete physical actions including blanking panel inspections and CFM setpoint revisions.

```json [ { "input": { "row_id": "Row-G", "sensor_records": [ { "rack_id": "Rack-01", "u_position": 24, "intake_temp_c": 22.5, "exhaust_temp_c": 38 }, { "rack_id": "Rack-02", "u_position": 24, "intake_temp_c": 34.8, "exhaust_temp_c": 54.2 } ] }, "expected_output": { "hotspot_identified": true, "critical_location": { "rack_id": "Rack-02", "u_position": 24 }, "probable_cause": "AIR_RECIRCULATION_LEAK", "remediation_summary": "INSTALL_BLANKING_PANELS_U24" } }, { "input": { "row_id": "Row-H", "sensor_records": [ { "rack_id": "Rack-01", "u_position": 12, "intake_temp_c": 21, "exhaust_temp_c": 34 }, { "rack_id": "Rack-02", "u_position": 12, "intake_temp_c": 21.5, "exhaust_temp_c": 35 } ] }, "expected_output": { "hotspot_identified": false, "critical_location": null, "probable_cause": "NORMAL_OPERATION", "remediation_summary": "NO_ACTION_REQUIRED" } } ] ```

Advisory diagnostics only. No direct actuation of datacenter HVAC, chillers, or CRAH fan speeds. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Advisory diagnostics only. No direct actuation of datacenter HVAC, chillers, or CRAH fan speeds. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Isolates the specific server rack and U-position exhibiting the initial thermal gradient breach. Generates post-mortem text identifying recirculation vs lack of chilled airflow causes. Specifies concrete physical actions including blanking panel inspections and CFM setpoint revisions.

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

Extract time-series temperature measurements from rack intake, exhaust, and cold-aisle floor tile sensors. Detect spatial heat gradient anomalies indicating air recirculation or perforated floor tile blockages. Submit thermal incident histories to hosted Claude to generate an engineering post-mortem draft. Output a remediation plan detailing rack blanking panel fixes, fan curve modifications, and workload re-balancing.

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

Isolates the specific server rack and U-position exhibiting the initial thermal gradient breach. Generates post-mortem text identifying recirculation vs lack of chilled airflow causes. Specifies concrete physical actions including blanking panel inspections and CFM setpoint revisions.

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

Multi-tier browser interface with rack temperature heatmaps and downloadable incident summaries.

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

Advisory diagnostics only. No direct actuation of datacenter HVAC, chillers, or CRAH fan speeds.

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

  • Extract time-series temperature measurements from rack intake, exhaust, and cold-aisle floor tile sensors.

  • Detect spatial heat gradient anomalies indicating air recirculation or perforated floor tile blockages.

  • Submit thermal incident histories to hosted Claude to generate an engineering post-mortem draft.

  • Output a remediation plan detailing rack blanking panel fixes, fan curve modifications, and workload re-balancing.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct synthetic CSV files modeling rack row temperatures, perforated tile CFM flows, and incident timestamps. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Mastra AI

TypeScript agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Extract time-series temperature measurements from rack intake, exhaust, and cold-aisle floor tile sensors....
  • Isolates the specific server rack and U-position exhibiting the initial thermal gradient breach. Generates...
  • Multi-tier browser interface with rack temperature heatmaps and downloadable incident summaries.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

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
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra 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

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

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