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Summary

Adds the two opt-in Cluster Readiness Engine performance checks against public CRE (nvcre.nvidia.com), each driving its own Certification: NCCL bus bandwidth and training goodput. Neither check branches on service or accelerator — which combinations are qualified is recorded as data, and eks x h100 is the first entry. Shipped overlays keep TrainJob nccl-all-reduce-bw; CRE stays catalog-only until a later overlay flip.

Motivation / Context

CRE is public at https://github.com/NVIDIA/cluster-readiness-engine, so the NCCL check no longer depends on private Excalibur. The Helm install of CRE is #2524, so this change cannot attach nvcre to any overlay.

This is the validator half of ADR-025's Phase 1. It carries most of the bounded Certification driver (#2688) and both opt-in checks (#2689), including the provider-independence and derived-catalog-entry-selection points raised in review on the epic (#2683).

It does not close either issue, so neither is listed as Fixes. Still outstanding against #2689: the four remaining goodput metrics (avgTFLOPSPerGPU, avgStepTimeSec, interruptionCount, lostWorkTimeSec) are printed but are not constraints; evidence does not yet name failing nodes with a per-node reason; and the gangScheduler position is undecided. Against #2688: a missing target.nodeNames is guarded by the callers' two-node check rather than failing before the resource is created, an expired run does not carry the partial report, and a run whose resources were superseded by a platform override is not yet reported explicitly.

Fixes: N/A
Related: #2688, #2689, #2683, #2541, #2524

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: validators/performance, recipes/validators/catalog.yaml

Implementation Notes

Certification is the surface for both checks. The API group is nvcre.nvidia.com (public CRE), not excalibur.nvidia.com. nccl-cre-all-reduce-bw reads the peak busBW from the category Workflow's BandwidthMeasurement and then asserts NET/EFA from launcher logs, so a run that silently fell back to another transport fails rather than reporting a number. cre-training-goodput reads the GoodputMeasurement. Each check creates its own Certification so their deadlines, teardown, and verdicts stay independent.

Qualified combinations are data, not branches. Both checks previously gated on service != eks || accelerator != h100 in Go, and the catalog variant and node cap were package constants. creQualifiedEntries in validators/performance/cre_qualification.go now maps a check plus a criteria pair to the catalog entry and node footprint it was measured with, and the checks look that up. Qualifying a combination is an entry there plus a measured threshold in the recipe, never a new code path. The entry has to be per combination: training/nemotron5-56b needs minGPUs: 32 and fails on 2x p5, where nemotron5-8b passes.

An unqualified combination skips. It has no calibrated threshold to judge against, so running the benchmark and comparing it to another platform's number would be worse than not running it.

Execution stays bounded. The node cap reaches both spec.nodesPerJob and spec.target.nodeNames, because setting only the former still fans out one job group per pair across the whole GPU pool. capCRECertificationNodes clamps a missing cap to a single node rather than treating it as unlimited — a one-node all-reduce fails loudly, where an uncapped run quietly consumes the pool. spec.timeoutPerJob carries AICR's own wait budget so CRE stops the job instead of leaving it running after AICR gives up. Teardown deletes with foreground propagation and then confirms the TrainJobs and workload pods are gone, since CRE's controller drops its finalizer without waiting for them; an unconfirmed teardown fails the check rather than warning, because surviving work still holds the GPUs.

Opt-in is locked by test. TestH100EKSTrainingCREStaysOptIn fails if a resolved EKS H100 training recipe picks up nccl-cre-all-reduce-bw or an nvcre componentRef. Training/kubeflow must keep TrainJob nccl-all-reduce-bw >= 300; slurm must clear performance.

The superseded docs/design/020-cre-aicr-performance-integration.md is dropped. It recorded "drive WorkloadRun, not Certification", which ADR-025 supersedes and which this branch's own later commits reverse, and it collided with 020-snapshot-agent-run-isolation.md on the ADR number.

Testing

make qualify
golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./validators/performance/... ./pkg/defaults/... ./pkg/recipe/... ./pkg/validator/...

make lint passes in full, including the AGENTS.md sync gate, doc filename/MDX gates, and chart-version pins. golangci-lint reports 0 issues across every affected package. make tuning-check, make api-diff (no incompatible SDK changes), make openapi-diff (no unacknowledged breaking changes), and make license-check all pass.

make test passes every package except pkg/oci, which fails on a local toolchain mismatch rather than on this change: TestHelmPinnedVersionExplicitVersionPull asserts the installed Helm matches the v4.3.0 pin in .settings.yaml, and this workstation has v4.2.3. make tools-check reports the same drift independently, and pkg/oci is untouched by this branch.

Coverage, validators/performance: 71.2% → 70.7% (−0.5%). The branch adds roughly 1,100 lines whose top-level orchestration needs a live cluster. No new exported function is uncovered.

Live UAT EKS H100 (opt-in recipe, public CRE v0.1.0 Helm, 2x p5.48xlarge, cluster aicr-uat-day-ah1-0-33646519137):

Check Result Constraint
nccl-cre-all-reduce-bw passed 489.80 GB/s >= 300
cre-training-goodput passed 0.7671 (Nemotron-5 8B, TP=2; ~40.6 TFLOPS/GPU, 10.41 s/step, 0 lost work) >= 0.5

That run predates the qualification-record refactor and the Certification move for goodput, so it needs re-running before merge to confirm both checks still measure the same numbers through the new path.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes: Catalog checks only. A recipe must list the check and a same-named constraint, and the cluster must have public CRE installed (#2524 or a manual chart install). No shipped overlay references either check, so there is nothing to roll back for existing consumers. Do not attach the CRE NCCL check to overlays until the TrainJob correlation gate (#2691) resolves; per the epic, that gate governs the NCCL migration only, not the training or fault-isolation capability.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race) — all packages except the pre-existing pkg/oci Helm-pin mismatch noted above
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S) — GPG signing info

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This change adds opt-in CRE NCCL bandwidth and NeMo training goodput validators for EKS H100. It adds shared CRE resource handling, catalog entries, runtime registration, timeouts, and tests. Shipped overlays retain the TrainJob NCCL path. The Makefile adds architecture-aware image builds and a validate-performance target. Documentation covers the checks, workflow, and integration backlog.

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The new opt-in CRE checks can fail before execution without the required image-pull secret, currently have reported lint failures, and may accept an invalid or stale goodput result or leave workloads running after interruption. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and cleanup risks to be addressed or explicitly accepted.

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- Line 111: Update the compound modifier in the sentence under “Supply fabric
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Thanks for the review notes.

Live UAT: CRE NCCL on EKS H100 passed (~489 GB/s vs >= 300). Goodput is still blocked on NGC pull (401) unless the secret is in aicr-validation. A new daytime cluster did not come up today — install failed on main from the helm-diff checksum pin in #2539, unrelated to this PR.

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143-143: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make the goodput image pull available to an opt-in cluster.

creTrainingImage references nvcr.io, but the recorded UAT failed with an image-pull 401 because no NGC secret was present. The WorkloadRun builder does not attach an image-pull secret. Therefore, an otherwise qualifying cluster can create a WorkloadRun that cannot start. Use an image available to the cluster, or provide and wire the required CRE-compatible pull credentials before this check is enabled.

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In `@validators/performance/cre_goodput.go` at line 143, Update the goodput
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Correcting an earlier claim in this PR: the previous commit said deleting the Certification with foreground propagation was evidence the GPU work had stopped. That is wrong, and Yuan's analysis on #2541 is right.

Verified against v0.2.0-rc.2:

  • pkg/controller/certification_controller.go handleDeletion deletes the child Workflows and removes its own finalizer in the same reconcile, without observing that they completed.
  • pkg/controller/pod_drain.go sets podDrainGracePeriod = 5 * time.Minute, after which it logs workload pods still present after the drain grace period; proceeding with cleanup anyway and stops blocking.

So the parent can disappear while TrainJobs and pods still hold GPUs. Foreground propagation is necessary but not sufficient.

f2ca15ad replaces the proof. Teardown now walks Certification → Workflows → Jobs by label before the delete — CRE stamps the Certification name only on its Workflows, so the Job names are unrecoverable afterwards — then waits for every TrainJob and non-terminal workload pod carrying those Job names to disappear. A teardown that cannot be confirmed fails the check instead of warning. The teardown budget is now separate from the delete budget and sized to outlast CRE's five-minute drain grace plus pod termination.

On the node-count point in the same review: this PR already caps the footprint with target.nodeNames (capCRECertificationNodes, two nodes) rather than relying on nodesPerJob, which only sizes each group.

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@rorajani this PR now has merge conflicts with main. Please rebase to resolve them.

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Lock the nccl-cre-all-reduce-bw catalog name so overlays can opt in later
without shipping CRE in OSS recipes.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Drive an opt-in WorkloadRun for EFA all-reduce, judge busBW from
BandwidthMeasurement, and keep transport assertion in AICR.

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Opt-in WorkloadRun for Megatron training goodput; skip unless the
recipe lists cre-training-goodput. No overlay enablement in this change.

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Use nvcre.nvidia.com Certification so the OSS catalog owns the H100 EFA NCCL path, while AICR still judges bandwidth and transport.

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Keep shipped EKS H100 training on TrainJob nccl-all-reduce-bw. Fail if an
overlay attaches nccl-cre-all-reduce-bw or the nvcre component.

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Reuse shared unstructured-map keys, drop the unused WorkloadRun EFA
profile after the NCCL path moved to Certification, and fix shadowing
and whitespace so the package lint gate passes.

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Seed Watch from Get resourceVersion, wait for NotFound after delete, and
give each Certification/WorkloadRun a run-scoped name so overlapping
validator Jobs cannot clobber each other.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
The public 56B WorkloadRun sample needs 32 GPUs and failed on 2× p5.
Use CRE catalog 8B dims and H100 TP=2. Live UAT: goodput 0.7671 vs >= 0.5,
NCCL 489.80 GB/s vs >= 300.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Package-level "True" and fmt.Sprint(nil) as "<nil>" failed golangci-lint
on the performance validator after the goodput diagnostic helper landed.

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Use catalog Certifications for NCCL and Nemotron-5 8B, always delete the CR, and cap each run to two named nodes with a matching job timeout so AICR wait cannot leave CRE work running.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
AICR's Certification teardown could report a clean cleanup while CRE's
jobs were still holding GPUs, and could report a passing check on top of
a Certification it failed to delete.

Delete with foreground propagation so the parent CR is retained until
CRE's Workflows, TrainJobs, and pods are gone, making the existing
gone-wait actual evidence the GPU work stopped. Give teardown its own
budget instead of borrowing the shorter DiagnosticTimeout, which would
expire mid-termination and leak a running job. Route both checks through
creCleanupFailure so a failed or timed-out teardown fails the check,
while preserving an error the check already hit.

These bounds are enforced by AICR at the call site: CRE's API places no
upper bound on nodesPerJob and has no whole-Certification deadline.

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Deleting the Certification does not establish that its GPU work stopped.
CRE's Certification controller deletes its child Workflows and drops its
own finalizer in the same reconcile without waiting for them, and its Job
drain barrier gives up after five minutes and proceeds while pods are
still running. Foreground propagation is therefore necessary but not
sufficient, so observing the parent disappear proved nothing.

Teardown now walks Certification -> Workflows -> Jobs by label before the
delete, because CRE stamps the Certification name only on its Workflows,
then waits for every TrainJob and non-terminal workload pod carrying
those Job names to disappear. An unconfirmed teardown fails the check
rather than warning: surviving work still holds the GPUs.

The teardown budget is separated from the delete budget and sized to
outlast CRE's five-minute drain grace plus pod termination.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
The note recorded 'drive WorkloadRun, not Certification', which ADR-025
supersedes and which this branch's own later commits reverse. It also
collided with 020-snapshot-agent-run-isolation.md on the ADR number.

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…on record

Both CRE checks gated on 'service != eks || accelerator != h100' in Go, and
the catalog variant and node cap were package constants. That made every
further combination a code change and buried compatibility in branching.

Record the qualified combinations as data instead. creQualifiedEntries maps
a check and a criteria pair to the catalog entry and node footprint it was
measured with, and the checks look it up rather than branching. Qualifying a
combination is now an entry plus a measured threshold in the recipe.

capCRECertificationNodes takes the cap from that entry and clamps a missing
one to a single node, so a malformed entry fails an all-reduce loudly rather
than quietly consuming the GPU pool.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
The checks no longer branch on criteria, so the docs, catalog descriptions,
and check-name comments should not read as though EKS H100 were their scope.
Point each at the qualification record and name eks x h100 as the combination
qualified today.

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…ribution

Both checks now skip an unqualified combination instead of branching on
criteria, so test that path directly rather than inferring it from the record.

listMaxBusBandwidth and getGoodputStatus were uncovered, and they carry the
run-attribution rules the checks depend on: a certification can rerun on nodes
still holding an earlier run's measurements, so both filter by owning Workflow
and by creation time. Cover the peak-selection, wrong-workflow, stale-object,
and no-results cases against a fake dynamic client.

Also replaces a test case duplicated verbatim in the goodput condition-summary
table with the no-True-condition case it was missing.

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Force-pushed: rebased onto main

Old SHA de558f89 → new SHA 50820536. This was a rebase onto origin/main at ee6b39e4, nothing more — no content changes, no new commits, no dropped commits. The PR was BEHIND and this repo enforces up-to-date branches, so it could not merge without it.

A rebase is still a force-push, so inline review comments anchored to de558f89 are now outdated. There are 33 reviews on this PR; please restart from the new SHA rather than the old anchors.

What the rebase showed

  • All 16 commits replayed with zero conflicts — the BEHIND state was staleness, not rot.
  • go build ./... clean.
  • go test -race green on validators/performance, pkg/recipe, pkg/validator/..., pkg/defaults.
  • golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./validators/performance/... → 0 issues.

main did touch validators/performance in the interim (nccl_preflight_tcpxo.go, nccl_test.go, and new testdata/gb300/eks/ fixtures), so the clean replay is a real result rather than an empty one.

Heads-up on the local worktree

The feat/cre-training-goodput-eks-h100 checkout at ~/repo/aicr-cre-phase1 has uncommitted work that was deliberately left alone: modified validators/performance/consts.go and validators/performance/cre_goodput.go, plus an untracked validators/performance/cre_goodput_metrics.go.

That work is safe. The rebase was pushed from a separate scratch branch precisely so the working tree was never touched, and both modified files are byte-identical before and after the rebase (same blob SHA at de558f89 and 50820536), so the edits still apply against the new head. The local branch is now behind the remote and needs a sync — stash, git fetch && git reset --hard origin/feat/cre-training-goodput-eks-h100, unstash — but nothing needs reconstructing.

Separately: this PR covers #2688 as well as #2689

Audited against #2688's four requirements and all four are present here — the node cap in capCRECertificationNodes, the bounded wait via CRECertificationTimeout (also written to spec.timeoutPerJob so CRE stops the job rather than leaving it running), teardown that enumerates Certification → Workflows → Jobs before deleting with a budget that outlasts CRE's 5-minute drain barrier, and the realized-configuration assertion in verifyTransportFromLogs. Detail in this comment.

The epic sequences #2688 ahead of #2689 so that checks never ship without execution bounds. Since both live in this PR they land together, so that guarantee holds without splitting.

One suggestion worth taking before review: rename cre_workloadrun.go and cre_workloadrun_test.go. The code correctly drives Certification — it registers the certifications GVR and builds a Certification — but the filename names the API ADR-025 explicitly rejected, which reads at a glance like the decision was not applied.

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