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Challenge

Build an Accelerator Quota Allocation and Over-Subscription Planner

Model multi-team GPU reservation quotas against historical compute usage traces to identify over-subscription capacity. Generate team quota adjustment proposals with hosted Claude without risking OOM evictions.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Model multi-team GPU reservation quotas against historical compute usage traces to identify over-subscription capacity. Generate team quota adjustment proposals with hosted Claude without risking OOM evictions.

Compute Infrastructure Manager

Ingest team allocation quotas alongside historical 30-day GPU time-slice usage logs.

Calculate concurrency peaks, idle time-blocks, and safe over-subscription ratios.

Use hosted Claude to draft quota restructuring recommendations and SLA impact analyses.

Publish an over-subscription plan with scheduled reclamation guardrails for cluster admins.

Quota planning portal featuring historical demand duration curves and adjustable over-subscription sliders.

Construct synthetic JSON traces showing hourly GPU reservation claims versus actual compute activity per team. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

NVIDIA DCGM exporter Applies GPU compute and memory utilization metrics as defined in standard DCGM monitoring systems.

optuna, anthropic-claude, pydantic-ai. optuna optimizes numerical over-subscription ratios to minimize unused capacity while capping eviction probability. Hosted Claude API for narrative justification; local numerical optimization via Optuna.

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.

Calculate the risk score of queue starvation under simulated over-subscription levels.

Synthesize team-by-team quota adjustment cards with transparent historical rationale.

Enforce strict priority rules preserving critical training workloads over batch eval jobs.

```json [ { "input": { "cluster_total_gpus": 64, "allocations": [ { "team": "ad-ranking", "assigned_gpus": 32, "peak_concurrent_gpus": 18, "avg_utilization_pct": 45 }, { "team": "speech-ai", "assigned_gpus": 32, "peak_concurrent_gpus": 20, "avg_utilization_pct": 50 } ] }, "expected_output": { "current_effective_headroom_gpus": 26, "recommended_over_subscription_ratio": 1.35, "proposed_reallocations": [ { "team": "ad-ranking", "new_guaranteed_gpus": 20, "burst_gpus": 12 }, { "team": "speech-ai", "new_guaranteed_gpus": 22, "burst_gpus": 10 } ], "unlocked_free_pool_gpus": 22 } }, { "input": { "cluster_total_gpus": 16, "allocations": [ { "team": "core-nlp", "assigned_gpus": 16, "peak_concurrent_gpus": 16, "avg_utilization_pct": 95 } ] }, "expected_output": { "current_effective_headroom_gpus": 0, "recommended_over_subscription_ratio": 1, "proposed_reallocations": [ { "team": "core-nlp", "new_guaranteed_gpus": 16, "burst_gpus": 0 } ], "unlocked_free_pool_gpus": 0 } } ] ```

Analytical quota modeling tool only; does not modify scheduler cgroups or evict running jobs. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Analytical quota modeling tool only; does not modify scheduler cgroups or evict running jobs. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Calculate the risk score of queue starvation under simulated over-subscription levels. Synthesize team-by-team quota adjustment cards with transparent historical rationale. Enforce strict priority rules preserving critical training workloads over batch eval jobs.

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 team allocation quotas alongside historical 30-day GPU time-slice usage logs. Calculate concurrency peaks, idle time-blocks, and safe over-subscription ratios. Use hosted Claude to draft quota restructuring recommendations and SLA impact analyses. Publish an over-subscription plan with scheduled reclamation guardrails for cluster admins.

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

Calculate the risk score of queue starvation under simulated over-subscription levels. Synthesize team-by-team quota adjustment cards with transparent historical rationale. Enforce strict priority rules preserving critical training workloads over batch eval jobs.

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

Quota planning portal featuring historical demand duration curves and adjustable over-subscription sliders.

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

Analytical quota modeling tool only; does not modify scheduler cgroups or evict running jobs.

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 team allocation quotas alongside historical 30-day GPU time-slice usage logs.

  • Calculate concurrency peaks, idle time-blocks, and safe over-subscription ratios.

  • Use hosted Claude to draft quota restructuring recommendations and SLA impact analyses.

  • Publish an over-subscription plan with scheduled reclamation guardrails for cluster admins.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct synthetic JSON traces showing hourly GPU reservation claims versus actual compute activity per team. 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 team allocation quotas alongside historical 30-day GPU time-slice usage logs. Calculate concurrency...
  • Calculate the risk score of queue starvation under simulated over-subscription levels. Synthesize team-by-t...
  • Quota planning portal featuring historical demand duration curves and adjustable over-subscription sliders.
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.

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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

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