docs(user): document the machine type each accelerator criterion targets - #2380
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An accelerator criterion names a GPU model, but a provider offers several machine types per model and the machine type determines the fabric, the NIC count, and which components a recipe can use. Nothing told a reader which node shape a recipe targets, so 'aicr recipe --accelerator h100 --service gke' looked applicable on any A3 shape while its GPUDirect-TCPXO DaemonSets pin affinity to nvidia-h100-mega-80gb and schedule nowhere else. Add a qualified-machine-type table to the recipe flag reference, separating the two failure modes: GKE H100 fails hard because components cannot land, while the EKS/AKS/GB200 families deploy normally but carry full-node performance floors that a smaller shape can false-fail. Record the same assumption as a comment on each affected overlay's criteria block, next to the criteria that omit the distinction. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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How to refresh evidenceRun on a cluster matching the recipe's aicr snapshot -o snapshot.yaml
# Profiled families (AKS/GKE gpuStack): hydrate the recipe with the
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# az aks nodepool list -g <rg> --cluster-name <cluster> -o json > pools.json
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Review found three defects in the previous commit. NVIDIA#1256 and NVIDIA#1254 are closed as not-planned, so describing the normalized performance floors as 'tracked in' them asserted follow-up work that was in fact declined. Reword to state the decision: the floors are deliberately fixed absolute full-node values, and running a qualified shape is how they pass. The new section was inserted at the same heading level as 'Query Mode' and before its examples block, so those examples rendered under the new heading. Move the section after them, keeping it a sibling before 'Snapshot Mode'. The gb200-eks-ubuntu-training comment said 'the performance floors below' but that overlay carries none — they are inherited from gb200-eks-training, and are provisional. Say so, and note the same on the table row. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CLI reference distinguishes accelerator models from machine types and documents qualified provider-specific shapes. Recipe overlays record qualified machine shapes, inherited fabric settings, alternate-shape matching, and possible scheduling or performance-gate failures. Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR improves accelerator documentation without changing recipe or deployment behavior, but the current wording could mislead users about which intents and machine shapes are concretely qualified. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up correction to narrow the qualification scope. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@docs/user/cli-reference.md`:
- Around line 480-482: Revise the recipe qualification text to state that the
criteria query does not reject another machine type with the same GPU model,
while avoiding any claim that deployment is unblocked. Keep the qualification
and family-specific deployment validation behavior consistent with the GKE H100
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Apply the same fix in `@docs/user/cli-reference.md` around lines 484 - 486: Apply
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In `@recipes/overlays/gb200-eks-ubuntu-training.yaml`:
- Around line 25-27: Update the GB200 overlay comment to refer to “inherited
performance floors” instead of “performance floors below,” accurately pointing
readers to the validation configuration inherited from gb200-eks-training.
In `@recipes/overlays/h100-gke-cos-training-slurm.yaml`:
- Around line 28-31: Reword the comment describing the a3-megagpu-8g
qualification so machine type is presented as a documented assumption rather
than inherited configuration, while separately noting that gke-nccl-tcpxo is
inherited via spec.base. Preserve the explanation that the criteria have no
machine-type axis and retain the reference to the parent overlay and `#2290`.
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Review feedback: the section opened with 'running it on another machine type is not blocked', which blurred two different things. Criteria resolution never rejects another machine type of the same GPU model -- there is no axis to reject on -- so a recipe always resolves; what differs by family is what happens after. Say that instead. Likewise 'TCPX is not shipped' read as a statement about GPUDirect-TCPX itself. Google ships it; AICR ships no component that integrates it. Say that in both the table and the GKE overlay comment. The Slurm overlay comment put the inherited componentRef and the machine-type qualification in one 'inherited' clause. Only the componentRef is inherited by the base mechanism; the qualification is a documented assumption that holds because those same artifacts do. There is no machine-type axis to inherit -- which is the distinction this change exists to make. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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In `@docs/user/cli-reference.md`:
- Around line 522-528: Update the introductory qualification text and the
h100/gke row so criteria acceptance is described separately from deployment or
performance validation: clarify that the criteria query accepts machines with
the same GPU model, while unsupported shapes may still fail deployment
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Review feedback: the matrix was intent-agnostic, so it read as if any GKE H100 recipe installs unschedulable TCPXO DaemonSets on a non-mega A3 shape. Only the training lineage does. h100-gke-cos-inference and its dynamo child carry no gke-nccl-tcpxo component, and neither does their gke-cos-inference base, so inference deploys on those shapes and only the calibrated floors are in play. Split the row by intent, add the intent to the column header, and note that a row naming no intent applies to every intent for that accelerator and service. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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- Around line 535-536: Update the machine-type column entries for the a100 and
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Review feedback: 'a2-highgpu-*' and 'A4 shapes' named neither a machine type nor a scope. Neither pattern resolves to a concrete machine type anywhere in the repo, so naming exact shapes would mean inventing them. Say what each row actually is instead. The a2 row is family-level by construction: GPUDirect-TCPXO targets a3-megagpu-8g, so gke-nccl-tcpxo is inapplicable to every a2 shape and no shape in the family carries a machine-type-bound component. The A4 row is family-level because the specific machine type is not recorded -- the overlay names a production reference cluster and no shape -- so the row says so rather than implying qualification it cannot support. Add a note that a family-named row is one of those two cases, and which. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
The comment explained omitting gke-nccl-tcpxo partly because its DaemonSets carry 'a different transport (TCPX)'. They carry TCPXO -- TCPX is the separate a3-highgpu/edge transport, and neither applies to A4. Folded in rather than deferred because this PR teaches exactly that distinction one file over, so leaving the contradiction in place would undercut it. Comment only; no behavior change. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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522-526: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAlign qualification wording with the family-level rows.
Lines 522-526 say that every recipe is qualified against a specific node shape. Lines 562-565 say that every listed pair has a qualified shape. This conflicts with the
a100family-level row and theb200row, which states that its specific machine type is not recorded. Describe the documented qualification scope instead, and reserve “qualified machine type” for concrete shapes.Suggested wording
-Each recipe is qualified against a specific node shape. Criteria resolution +Where a concrete machine type is recorded, the recipe is qualified against +that node shape. Some rows are family-level. Criteria resolution ... -The table lists the accelerator/service pairs that have a qualified shape; +The table records the documented qualification scope for each +accelerator/service pair;Also applies to: 562-565
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- Around line 532-542: The accelerator/service rows for h100/eks, h100/aks,
gb200/eks, and a100/gke should explicitly state intent: training, since their
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The inference row implied every GKE H100 inference recipe carries performance floors that a smaller shape can false-fail. h100-gke-cos-inference declares no performance section at all; the floors live only in the -dynamo child. Say which is which so the row does not invent a gate the plain recipe lacks. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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Multi-persona review — PR #2380
Method: 3 independent persona reviewers (domain/fabric accuracy · docs quality & link hygiene · adversarial correctness skeptic) + a senior meta-reviewer that re-derived each finding from the resolved code. The crux finding was reproduced end-to-end through the validator source.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick
This is a carefully-written, well-grounded docs PR. Every fabric/transport claim (TCPXO vs TCPX, a3-megagpu/highgpu/edge), machine-type mapping, NIC/EFA count, the affinity-pin statement, the recipe-engine assertions (no machine-type axis in the criteria model; the inference lineage carries no gke-nccl-tcpxo), and all four issue-status references verified accurate against the overlays, the gke-nccl-tcpxo manifests, pkg/recipe/criteria.go, the health-check, and live GitHub issue states. CodeRabbit's two points are already satisfied by the current head.
One substantive correction lands against the PR's own central thesis — see the inline 🟠 on the AKS row.
Confirmed non-issues (examined, refuted)
- Un-anchored
[Validation › Node-shape assumption](./validation.md)link — correct as-is. Both "Node-shape assumption" occurrences invalidation.mdare**Bold Label:**paragraphs, not headings, so no auto-anchor exists; a#node-shape-assumptionfragment would be a broken link that fails the lychee CI gate. (One persona flagged it; another refuted it on inspection.) - CodeRabbit's two points (say "no TCPX component"; separate criteria-resolution from deployment) — already satisfied: the doc says "AICR ships no GPUDirect-TCPX component" and cleanly separates "criteria resolution does not reject … so a recipe always resolves" from "deployment validation fails."
×(doc) vsx(source comments) glyph for counts — acceptable.- All fabric/transport/machine-type/NIC-count/affinity-pin/issue-status/anchor claims — independently verified accurate.
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| 🟠 Major | 1 |
| 🟡 Minor | 0 |
| 🔵 Nitpick | 3 |
Recommendation: Approve with comments. Address the 🟠 AKS correction before merge since it contradicts a named, load-bearing claim; the 🔵 nitpicks are optional polish.
| | `h100` | `gke`, `training` | `a3-megagpu-8g` | **Components do not schedule.** The GPUDirect-TCPXO DaemonSets pin node affinity to `cloud.google.com/gke-accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb`, so on `a3-highgpu-*` / `a3-edgegpu-8g` nothing rolls out and the deployment health check fails. AICR ships no GPUDirect-TCPX component for the shapes that need one — tracked in [#2290](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/issues/2290). | | ||
| | `h100` | `gke`, `inference` | `a3-megagpu-8g` | Deploys. The inference lineage carries no `gke-nccl-tcpxo` component, so the hard failure above does not apply. Plain `inference` declares no performance gates at all; the `dynamo` variant adds floors calibrated on the 8-GPU node, so smaller shapes such as `a3-highgpu-1g/2g/4g` can false-fail there. | | ||
| | `h100` | `eks` | `p5.48xlarge` (8× H100 SXM, 32× EFA) | Deploys, but performance floors are calibrated on the full node; smaller shapes such as `p5.4xlarge` can false-fail a healthy run. | | ||
| | `h100` | `aks` | `Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5` (8× H100 SXM) | Deploys, but as above; `Standard_NC80adis_H100_v5` (2 GPUs) and `Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5` (1 GPU) can false-fail performance gates. | |
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🟠 Major — AKS H100 training hard-fails deployment on the NCads shapes, not a perf soft-fail
This row says Standard_NC80adis_H100_v5 (2 GPU) and Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5 (1 GPU) "Deploys, but … can false-fail performance gates." The same claim is in recipes/overlays/h100-aks-training.yaml:27 and is generalized in the summary bullet at line 546 ("Only the GKE H100 training lineage … carries a machine-type-bound component"). It's the opposite for those shapes.
h100-aks-training → aks-training → aks; aks.yaml:175-182 wires network-operator with nic-cluster-policy-aks.yaml unconditionally (RDMA on by default, aks.yaml:171). The expected-resources deployment check this recipe runs (h100-aks-training.yaml:85) calls verifyRDMAFabricReady whenever a network-operator ref declares that NicClusterPolicy manifest (validators/deployment/expected_resources.go:434, recipeDeclaresRDMAFabric). rdmaFabricProbeCoverage fails closed: empty Mellanox-RDMA cohort → ErrCodeNotFound (expected_resources.go:1194-1198); present-but-zero allocatable → error (:1208-1213). NC40ads/NC80adis are PCIe H100 with no InfiniBand, so they never advertise rdma/hca_shared_devices_a — the deployment phase times out and hard-fails before the performance gate ever runs.
The EKS row by contrast is genuinely correct (aws-efa has no requiredDuringScheduling affinity and no Go gate), so the GKE↔EKS asymmetry holds — but AKS is a second hard-fail path, routed through a Go readiness gate instead of a Chainsaw one, that this table presents as a clean deploy.
Blast radius: A user on a 1-/2-GPU NCads H100 AKS cluster is told deployment will succeed and only a perf gate might false-fail; in reality aicr validate hard-fails the deployment phase at expected-resources after the full RDMA-readiness timeout. Also weakens the load-bearing "only GKE H100 training hard-fails" framing.
Fix: State that the non-IB NCads shapes hard-fail the deployment RDMA-fabric readiness gate (network-operator NicClusterPolicy + verifyRDMAFabricReady), and qualify the line-546 bullet to acknowledge the AKS RDMA fabric gate — or scope the AKS "deploys normally" claim to the IB-capable ND shapes only. Mirror the wording into h100-aks-training.yaml:24-28.
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Confirmed and fixed — this was a real defect in the table, and I traced the chain before changing it:
aks.yaml:175-182wiresnetwork-operatorwithnic-cluster-policy-aks.yamlunconditionally.recipeDeclaresRDMAFabric(expected_resources.go:948-955) matches on that manifest name, soverifyRDMAFabricReadyruns in the deployment phase (:434).- It fails closed — empty Mellanox cohort returns
ErrCodeNotFound(:1194-1198); present-but-zero errors (:1208-1213).
NCads are PCIe H100 with no InfiniBand, so no node carries the Mellanox label, the cohort is empty, and deployment fails before any performance gate runs.
Fixed in 3f0ee2e: the AKS row now states the deployment RDMA-fabric gate and names the --set networkoperator:enabled=false opt-out, the h100-aks-training.yaml comment says the same, and the summary bullet now describes two hard-fail families by different mechanisms — GKE through a Chainsaw check on unschedulable DaemonSets, AKS through a Go readiness gate on an absent fabric. The soft-failure bullet is scoped to EKS/GB200, noting that on AKS the deployment gate bites first.
Worth recording why this was missed: an earlier review pass did check the AKS path, but only the Chainsaw health check — which indeed has no desiredNumberScheduled > 0 assert and passes. The gate is in Go, on a different mechanism entirely.
| | Accelerator | Service / intent | Qualified machine type | On other shapes of the same GPU | | ||
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| | `h100` | `gke`, `training` | `a3-megagpu-8g` | **Components do not schedule.** The GPUDirect-TCPXO DaemonSets pin node affinity to `cloud.google.com/gke-accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb`, so on `a3-highgpu-*` / `a3-edgegpu-8g` nothing rolls out and the deployment health check fails. AICR ships no GPUDirect-TCPX component for the shapes that need one — tracked in [#2290](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/issues/2290). | | ||
| | `h100` | `gke`, `inference` | `a3-megagpu-8g` | Deploys. The inference lineage carries no `gke-nccl-tcpxo` component, so the hard failure above does not apply. Plain `inference` declares no performance gates at all; the `dynamo` variant adds floors calibrated on the 8-GPU node, so smaller shapes such as `a3-highgpu-1g/2g/4g` can false-fail there. | |
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🔵 Nitpick — "Qualified = a3-megagpu-8g" is over-precise for the plain GKE H100 inference row
For the plain gke, inference half, the recipe carries no gke-nccl-tcpxo pin and no performance floor (base gke-cos-inference declares no validation phase), so it behaves identically on every H100 shape — a3-megagpu-8g is only meaningful for the dynamo sub-lineage. The adjacent "On other shapes" cell already makes the plain-vs-dynamo split, so this is internally consistent; the single-value column is just slightly over-precise.
Fix: Optional: annotate the value as a3-megagpu-8g (dynamo variant only), or footnote that plain inference is shape-agnostic.
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Agreed — fixed in 3f0ee2e. The plain gke, inference half depends on no machine type, so naming one implied a constraint that isn't there. The cell now reads "not machine-type-bound (dynamo floors calibrated on a3-megagpu-8g)", which keeps the shape visible for the sub-lineage that does depend on it without asserting it for the plain path.
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🔵 Nitpick — Heading capitalization diverges from immediate siblings
#### Qualified machine types is sentence case while its two peers under ### aicr recipe are Title Case (#### Query Mode, #### Snapshot Mode). The file mixes both and CLAUDE.md doesn't mandate Title Case, so this is defensible. The anchor stays #qualified-machine-types under GitHub's lowercasing either way, so the intra-page link is unaffected.
Fix: Optional: #### Qualified Machine Types for local consistency.
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Changed to #### Qualified Machine Types in 3f0ee2e to match its #### Query Mode / #### Snapshot Mode siblings. As you note the anchor is unaffected — GitHub lowercases either way — so the intra-page link needed no change, and I verified it still points at #qualified-machine-types.
| | `h100` | `eks` | `p5.48xlarge` (8× H100 SXM, 32× EFA) | Deploys, but performance floors are calibrated on the full node; smaller shapes such as `p5.4xlarge` can false-fail a healthy run. | | ||
| | `h100` | `aks` | `Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5` (8× H100 SXM) | Deploys, but as above; `Standard_NC80adis_H100_v5` (2 GPUs) and `Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5` (1 GPU) can false-fail performance gates. | | ||
| | `gb200` | `eks` | `p6e-gb200.36xlarge` (4 GPUs per K8s node) | Deploys; floors are sized for this shape and are themselves provisional pending production NVL72 data. | | ||
| | `a100` | `gke` | the whole `a2` family (`a2-highgpu-*`, `a2-ultragpu-*`) | Family-level by construction, not per-shape: GPUDirect-TCPXO targets H100 `a3-megagpu-8g`, so the `gke-nccl-tcpxo` component is inapplicable to every `a2` shape and is intentionally omitted. No shape in the family carries a machine-type-bound component. | |
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🔵 Nitpick — a2 (lowercase) vs A4 (uppercase) in the same column reads as an inconsistency
The a100 row says "the whole a2 family" (lowercase) while the b200 row (line 536) says "the A4 family" (uppercase), both in code font in the same column. This tracks real GCP branding (lowercase a2/a4 machine-type identifiers vs uppercase A2/A4 series names), so it's arguably correct — but side by side it reads as a typo. The b200-gke-cos-training.yaml comment uses the same A4, so doc and overlay agree.
Fix: Optional: lowercase A4 → a4 for visual parity, or add a one-word note distinguishing series from machine type.
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Made both lowercase in 3f0ee2e. Since the column names machine-type families rather than marketing series, the lowercase identifier form (a2, a4) is the consistent choice — and it matches how the a3-megagpu-8g / p5.48xlarge rows are written in the same column.
…hapes Review found the AKS row backwards. The aks base wires network-operator with a NicClusterPolicy unconditionally, so recipeDeclaresRDMAFabric matches and the deployment-phase expected-resources check runs verifyRDMAFabricReady. That gate fails closed: an empty Mellanox cohort returns ErrCodeNotFound. NCads are PCIe H100 with no InfiniBand, so they never advertise the shared RDMA resource and deployment fails before any performance gate runs. The table said those shapes deploy and only risk a perf false-fail, and the summary bullet generalized that to 'only the GKE H100 training lineage' being hard. There are two hard-fail families, via different mechanisms: GKE through a Chainsaw health check on unschedulable DaemonSets, AKS through a Go readiness gate on an absent fabric. Say both, and note the bundle-time opt-out. Also from review: the plain GKE H100 inference row named a qualified machine type it does not depend on, the new heading was sentence case among Title Case siblings, and the a2/A4 family identifiers disagreed on capitalization. Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <yuanchen97@gmail.com>
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Re-review — PR #2380 (delta since my prior review)
Method: Delta re-review. One new commit (3f0ee2e0) landed since my prior review (against d48a78fc) — the author's response to my 🟠 Major on the AKS row. I re-derived each prior finding against the current head and ran two adversarial verifications against the resolved Go source: an opt-out reachability trace and a full RDMA-gate mechanism check.
Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick — Disposition: ✔️ Addressed · ◐ Partial · ✖️ Not addressed · ⊘ N/A
Prior-feedback status
| Prior finding | Tier | Disposition |
|---|---|---|
| AKS row calls the NCads shapes a perf soft-fail; it's a hard deployment fail | 🟠 Major | ✔️ Addressed — row + Component-level (hard) bullet + overlay comment rewritten. Mechanism independently verified accurate (unconditional network-operator+NicClusterPolicy wiring in the aks base; manifest-keyed verifyRDMAFabricReady deployment gate that fails closed; deployment-before-performance ordering). But the fix added a new incorrect remedy — see the inline 🟠. |
| "Qualified = a3-megagpu-8g" over-precise for plain GKE inference | 🔵 Nitpick | ✔️ Addressed — value → not machine-type-bound |
| Heading capitalization vs siblings | 🔵 Nitpick | ✔️ Addressed — #### Qualified Machine Types; inbound link updated, anchor still resolves |
a2 vs A4 casing |
🔵 Nitpick | ✔️ Addressed in doc (a4); introduces a trivial doc↔overlay drift — see inline 🔵 |
All four prior findings addressed. The fix introduced one new 🟠 Major (the bundle-time opt-out points at the wrong command) and one 🔵 Nitpick — both inline.
Confirmed non-issues (examined this round)
- RDMA-gate mechanism prose (row +
Component-level (hard)bullet) — all five load-bearing sub-claims trace to source and are accurate. Two trivial, non-misleading imprecisions: the exact fail-closed branch on a pure non-IB cluster is "no Mellanox-labeled node observed" (ErrCodeNotFound) rather than literally "advertises zero of the resource"; and "before any performance gate runs" is true on phase ordering (PhaseDeployment→PhaseConformance→PhasePerformance) though skipping performance isFailFast-dependent — the doc doesn't overclaim skipping. - Azure SKU facts (NC80adis=2 / NC40ads=1 PCIe non-IB; ND96isr=8 IB) — external, but consistent with the overlay's own calibration comments and exact GPU-count/spelling.
- Heading-rename anchor — no inbound link broke;
#qualified-machine-typesstill resolves.
Summary
| Tier | Count |
|---|---|
| 🔴 Blocker | 0 |
| 🟠 Major | 1 (new) |
| 🟡 Minor | 0 |
| 🔵 Nitpick | 1 (new) |
Recommendation: Approve with comments. My prior 🟠 is resolved and the mechanism rewrite is solid — but the fix bolted on an opt-out (--set networkoperator:enabled=false) that targets aicr bundle while the hard-fail it addresses fires during aicr validate, which has no such flag. Fix that before merge (swap it for recipe/overlay overrides.enabled: false in both the table row and the overlay comment); the nitpick is optional.
| | `h100` | `gke`, `training` | `a3-megagpu-8g` | **Components do not schedule.** The GPUDirect-TCPXO DaemonSets pin node affinity to `cloud.google.com/gke-accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb`, so on `a3-highgpu-*` / `a3-edgegpu-8g` nothing rolls out and the deployment health check fails. AICR ships no GPUDirect-TCPX component for the shapes that need one — tracked in [#2290](https://github.com/NVIDIA/aicr/issues/2290). | | ||
| | `h100` | `gke`, `inference` | not machine-type-bound (`dynamo` floors calibrated on `a3-megagpu-8g`) | Deploys. The inference lineage carries no `gke-nccl-tcpxo` component, so the hard failure above does not apply. Plain `inference` declares no performance gates at all; the `dynamo` variant adds floors calibrated on the 8-GPU node, so smaller shapes such as `a3-highgpu-1g/2g/4g` can false-fail there. | | ||
| | `h100` | `eks` | `p5.48xlarge` (8× H100 SXM, 32× EFA) | Deploys, but performance floors are calibrated on the full node; smaller shapes such as `p5.4xlarge` can false-fail a healthy run. | | ||
| | `h100` | `aks` | `Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5` (8× H100 SXM, InfiniBand) | **Deployment fails on the non-IB NCads shapes.** The AKS chain wires `network-operator` with a NicClusterPolicy unconditionally, so the deployment-phase `expected-resources` check runs an RDMA-fabric readiness gate that fails closed. `Standard_NC80adis_H100_v5` (2 GPUs) and `Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5` (1 GPU) are PCIe H100 with no InfiniBand, so they never advertise the shared RDMA resource and the gate fails before any performance gate runs. Opt out at bundle time with `--set networkoperator:enabled=false`. | |
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🟠 Major — The --set networkoperator:enabled=false opt-out does not disable the gate it's offered against
The row ends "Opt out at bundle time with --set networkoperator:enabled=false" — but that is an aicr bundle-only flag, and the hard-fail it's meant to bypass fires during aicr validate.
aicr validatehas no--setflag (pkg/cli/validate.go:391-587) — passing it is an unknown-flag error. Neither doesaicr recipe.- The gate reads
ctx.ValidationInput.ComponentRefsfrom the recipe unmodified (validators/deployment/expected_resources.go:212, filtered byIsEnabled()), andIsEnabled()only flips when the ComponentRef's ownOverrides["enabled"]is false (pkg/recipe/metadata.go:190).bundle --setwrites into the bundler's value-override pipeline for the generated Helm output; it never rewrites the recipe thatvalidatere-reads, and the two commands share no state.
Blast radius: A user on a non-IB NCads cluster who follows this still eats the full RDMA-readiness-gate timeout and hard-fails. If they bundle without network-operator and then validate the unchanged recipe, validate fails just as hard. The doc implies a one-line escape hatch that does not exist as a CLI flag.
Fix: Replace the bundle-time sentence (here and in the overlay comment) with recipe/overlay-level guidance: disable the network-operator componentRef itself — overrides.enabled: false (or reference an overlay/mixin that omits the NicClusterPolicy manifest). That is what enabledComponentRefs / recipeDeclaresRDMAFabric honor before the gate arms.
| # fails closed when no node advertises the shared RDMA resource. NCads are | ||
| # PCIe H100 with no InfiniBand, so deployment fails before the performance | ||
| # floors below are ever evaluated. Opt out with | ||
| # `--set networkoperator:enabled=false`. |
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🟠 Major — Same incorrect opt-out in the overlay comment
Mirror of the cli-reference.md:533 finding: --set networkoperator:enabled=false is a bundle-time flag and does not suppress the validate-phase verifyRDMAFabricReady gate this comment describes.
Fix: Point at overrides.enabled: false on the network-operator componentRef instead of --set at bundle time.
| # accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb` (a3-megagpu / H100) and a | ||
| # different transport (TCPX), so they would not run on A4 nodes. | ||
| # accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb` (a3-megagpu / H100) and carry a | ||
| # transport A4 does not use (GPUDirect-TCPXO), so they would not run on A4 |
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🔵 Nitpick — a4 (doc) vs A4 (b200 overlay) casing drift
The prior-round P4 fix lowercased the doc table to a4, but this overlay comment still says A4 (here and lines 40, 44, 49, 94) — and the PR body states doc and overlay agree.
Fix: Optional. Defensible as-is (uppercase A4 = series name in prose; lowercase a4 = machine-type family in code font). Align only if doc↔overlay parity is the goal.
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Summary
Documents which machine type each accelerator criterion actually targets, and
records the same assumption as a comment on the criteria block of every
affected overlay.
Motivation / Context
--accelerator h100names a GPU model, but a provider offers several machinetypes per model, and the machine type — not the GPU — determines the fabric,
the NIC count, and which components a recipe can use.
Nothing in the user docs said which node shape a recipe targets.
cli-reference.mdlisted
--acceleratoras "Accelerator/GPU type: h100, h200, ..." with noqualification, so this reads as applicable to any GKE H100 cluster:
It is qualified on
a3-megagpu-8gonly. Ona3-highgpu-8g/a3-edgegpu-8gthe GPUDirect-TCPXO DaemonSets pin node affinity to
cloud.google.com/gke-accelerator: nvidia-h100-mega-80gb, so nothing schedulesand deployment validation fails. The one place that stated the targeting was
docs/integrator/gke-tcpxo-networking.md— an integrator page a user pickingcriteria will not read.
Fixes: #2377
Related: #2290, #1256, #1254
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
docs/,examples/)pkg/recipe) — comments only, no behavior changeFiles:
docs/user/cli-reference.mdplus criteria-block comments onh100-gke-cos-training,h100-gke-cos-training-slurm,h100-eks-training,h100-aks-training,gb200-eks-ubuntu-training, and a one-line transportcorrection in
b200-gke-cos-training.Implementation Notes
overstate the problem:
artifacts to a machine type —
h100-gke-cos-trainingand the leaves thatinherit it. On a non-matching shape the DaemonSets have nowhere to land and
validation fails loudly. The inference lineage carries no
gke-nccl-tcpxocomponent, so the table splits that row by intent rather than implying the
hard failure applies to every GKE H100 recipe.
NCCL and inference floors are fixed absolute full-node values. A smaller
shape can fail a gate while being healthy. Already documented in
validation.md; the table links to it rather than restating it.listed are undocumented rather than known-bad. Each row's machine type is
taken from the calibration evidence already in the overlays (e.g.
h100-eks-training.yamlcalibrates onp5.48xlarge;h100-aks-training.yamlonStandard_ND96isr_H100_v5).the distinction, so the gap is visible where someone would otherwise add a
matching leaf.
model should gain a machine-type or fabric axis is Document which machine types each accelerator criterion actually supports #2377's open question and
is deliberately left open here.
nccl-all-reduce-bw training gate is a fixed absolute fabric-specific busbw value applied to SKU-agnostic recipes → false-fails EKS/H100 small SKUs #1256 and inference-perf throughput floor is a fixed absolute full-node value applied to SKU-agnostic recipes → false-fails smaller node shapes #1254 are closed as not planned, so the text says the floors are
deliberately fixed absolute full-node values and that running a qualified
shape is how they pass — rather than implying normalization work is queued.
gb200-eks-trainingand are themselves provisional, pending productionNVL72 data; that overlay carries no floors of its own.
a2-*nor anya4-*machine type appears anywhere in the repo, so naming exact shapeswould mean inventing them. The
a2row is family-level by construction(TCPXO targets
a3-megagpu-8g, sogke-nccl-tcpxois inapplicable to everya2shape); theA4row is family-level because the machine type is notrecorded — the overlay names a reference cluster and no shape.
b200-gke-cos-training.yamldescribed the
gke-nccl-tcpxoDaemonSets as carrying "a different transport(TCPX)". They carry TCPXO; TCPX is the separate
a3-highgpu/edgetransport, and neither applies to A4. Normally a pre-existing defect would go
to a follow-up, but this page now teaches exactly that distinction, so
leaving the contradiction one file over would undercut it. Comment only.
Testing
Every commit was verified this way. The commits after the first respond to
review rounds: corrected closed-issue references, the section moved out from
between
#### Query Modeand its examples block (it had reparented thoseexamples under the new heading), the GB200 comment, the intent split on the
GKE H100 row, explicit scoping for family-named rows, and the B200 transport
correction.
make qualifywas not run in full: the diff is Markdown plus YAML comments —zero
.gofiles, no criteria values, constraints, componentRefs, or chart pinschanged.
go test ./pkg/recipe/...confirms the overlays still parse andresolve. The lychee anchor check runs in CI on
docs/**PRs; the one addedintra-page anchor (
#qualified-machine-types) matches its heading text, and noexisting heading was renamed or removed, so no inbound link could break.
Risk Assessment
Rollout notes: Documentation and YAML comments only. No recipe resolution,
bundle output, or CLI behavior changes.
Checklist
make testwith-race) — scoped topkg/recipe; see Testingmake lint) —lint-yaml; see Testinggit commit -S)