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Challenge

Build an Accelerator Procurement Capacity and Cost Simulation Engine

Model multi-accelerator cloud procurement strategies against projected generative AI inference demands. Evaluate cost tradeoffs between spot, on-demand, and reserved capacity under preemption risk.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Model multi-accelerator cloud procurement strategies against projected generative AI inference demands. Evaluate cost tradeoffs between spot, on-demand, and reserved capacity under preemption risk.

Cloud FinOps Architect

Ingest projected hourly token request demand and model parameter specifications.

Simulate provisioning across AWS Neuron instances and NVIDIA GPU cloud offerings.

Prompt hosted Claude to evaluate risk-adjusted cost matrices and spot preemption exposure.

Generate a procurement portfolio report with cost savings and availability guarantees.

Scenario comparison dashboard displaying cost curves, preemption vulnerability graphs, and allocation tables.

Construct synthetic hourly demand profiles and pricing tables for accelerated EC2 instances (Inf2, Trn1, and GPU equivalents). Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

AWS Neuron documentation Utilizes AWS Neuron accelerated EC2 instance family specifications (Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, Trn2) for architectural cost modeling.

pydantic-ai, anthropic-claude, mlflow. Enforces strict financial schema validation and constraint checking on simulated procurement allocations. Hosted Claude API for narrative tradeoff analysis between reservation commitments and spot preemption costs.

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.

Simulates multi-tier procurement models satisfying peak hourly token demand.

Quantifies potential cost savings and preemption interruption probabilities.

Outputs structured JSON procurement allocations conforming to schema guidelines.

```json [ { "input": { "monthly_demand_tokens_billion": 50, "target_model": "Llama-70B", "latency_sla_ms": 100, "budget_limit_usd": 25000 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_fleet": [ { "instance_type": "trn1.32xlarge", "pricing_model": "1yr_reserved", "count": 4, "monthly_cost_usd": 14200 }, { "instance_type": "inf2.48xlarge", "pricing_model": "spot_flexible", "count": 2, "monthly_cost_usd": 4800 } ], "total_monthly_usd": 19000, "projected_sla_conformance_pct": 99.4, "risk_commentary": "Reserved Trn1 provides steady baseline; spot Inf2 absorbs morning bursts" } }, { "input": { "monthly_demand_tokens_billion": 1, "target_model": "Qwen-7B", "latency_sla_ms": 500, "budget_limit_usd": 2000 }, "expected_output": { "recommended_fleet": [ { "instance_type": "inf2.xlarge", "pricing_model": "on_demand", "count": 2, "monthly_cost_usd": 980 } ], "total_monthly_usd": 980, "projected_sla_conformance_pct": 99.9, "risk_commentary": "Low volume easily accommodated on demand without reservation risk" } } ] ```

Procurement simulation only; executes no cloud API provisioning or financial transactions. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Procurement simulation only; executes no cloud API provisioning or financial transactions. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Simulates multi-tier procurement models satisfying peak hourly token demand. Quantifies potential cost savings and preemption interruption probabilities. Outputs structured JSON procurement allocations conforming to schema guidelines.

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 projected hourly token request demand and model parameter specifications. Simulate provisioning across AWS Neuron instances and NVIDIA GPU cloud offerings. Prompt hosted Claude to evaluate risk-adjusted cost matrices and spot preemption exposure. Generate a procurement portfolio report with cost savings and availability guarantees.

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

Simulates multi-tier procurement models satisfying peak hourly token demand. Quantifies potential cost savings and preemption interruption probabilities. Outputs structured JSON procurement allocations conforming to schema guidelines.

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

Scenario comparison dashboard displaying cost curves, preemption vulnerability graphs, and allocation tables.

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 simulation only; executes no cloud API provisioning or financial transactions.

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 projected hourly token request demand and model parameter specifications.

  • Simulate provisioning across AWS Neuron instances and NVIDIA GPU cloud offerings.

  • Prompt hosted Claude to evaluate risk-adjusted cost matrices and spot preemption exposure.

  • Generate a procurement portfolio report with cost savings and availability guarantees.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct synthetic hourly demand profiles and pricing tables for accelerated EC2 instances (Inf2, Trn1, and GPU equivalents). 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 projected hourly token request demand and model parameter specifications. Simulate provisioning acro...
  • Simulates multi-tier procurement models satisfying peak hourly token demand. Quantifies potential cost savi...
  • Scenario comparison dashboard displaying cost curves, preemption vulnerability graphs, and allocation tables.
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
  • 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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Recipe freeze marker

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