feat(recipes): add GB300 EKS training and inference overlays (WIP)

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Summary

Adds the GB300 EKS recipe overlay family — gb300-any, intent-level gb300-eks-training / gb300-eks-inference, their Ubuntu leaves, and the -kubeflow (training) and -dynamo (inference) platform variants — so aicr recipe --accelerator gb300 --service eks ... resolves end to end. Both leaves are deployed and validated on real GB300 hardware.

Motivation / Context

gb300 has been a declared accelerator in pkg/recipe/criteria.go for a while, but recipes/overlays/ had zero GB300 overlays, so every GB300 query failed to resolve. This re-files the work closed in #1336, which was parked pending a public GB300 cluster ("not ready to merge until the public GB300 cluster is available for validation"). That cluster now exists: nhensley-gb300 (us-east-2), 2 x p6e-gb300r.36xlarge GPU nodes (GB300 NVL72, Grace ARM64, Ubuntu 24.04) plus 3 x m7i.xlarge system nodes on Kubernetes v1.35.6.

Unlike #1336, which defaulted to RoCE, these overlays assume the EFA fabric — matching the reference cluster, whose GPU nodes carry an efa-only ENI.

Fixes: #2381
Related: #1883, #1318, #1336, #1326, #1410, #2383

Type of Change

• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Documentation update

Component(s) Affected

• Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
• Validator (pkg/validator)
• Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)

Implementation Notes

Fabric is EFA. The overlays keep the aws-efa device plugin inherited from the EKS base. RoCE-fabric GB300 is out of scope here; fabric-aware selection is tracked in #1410.

Node tuning uses the documented no-op placeholder. Nodewright ships no gb300 profile, and the gb200 profile has not been validated against GB300's Grace ARM64 64KB-page kernel. The overlays wire components/nodewright-customizations/manifests/no-op.yaml, the repo's idiom for "accelerator without tuning packages". Confirmed on hardware: the CR reaches status: complete and the skyhook.nvidia.com=runtime-required taint clears.

Two validator defects surfaced by being the catalog's first no-op.yaml consumer. The component health check hardcoded name: tuning, which no-op does not render, so expected-resources asserted a CR that never exists; the assert is now name-agnostic and fails closed on an empty collection. Making it name-agnostic then widened a second hole — nothing bound liveness to the declared CR — so the per-name readiness check now rejects a Skyhook carrying a deletionTimestamp, with a table-driven regression test covering the terminating-plus-stale-live case and a live control.

NCCL checks needed an explicit benchmark profile. The validator's applicability matrix registers only gb200 for EKS, and an unsupported combination returns Skip — so the declared thresholds would have been inert and the phase vacuously green. The training leaf declares nccl-benchmark-profile: gb200/eks, the documented borrow for an existing service with a new accelerator.

The Dynamo leaf runs gang-scheduling in conformance. Dynamo admits its frontend and decode workers as a gang through kai-scheduler, and the inference-perf validator applies a KAI Queue for that workload — but the queue apply is best-effort (logs at INFO and continues), and the deployment-phase kai-scheduler health check only asserts liveness. Nothing verified the scheduling path the leaf depends on. This matches the h100-eks/aks/gke, b200-gke and rtx-pro-6000-eks Dynamo leaves; the two gb200 leaves still omit it (#2390).

GB300 inference is gated at 128 concurrency/GPU, not the compiled default of 256. The default is tuned for GB200 and EKS H100. GB300's saturation knee sits lower in concurrency because each GPU is faster, so the single Dynamo frontend replica saturates sooner and the benchmark measures the frontend ceiling rather than the accelerator — the per-replica limit reported in ai-dynamo/dynamo#9466 (reproduced on B300, independent of CUDA version) and the knee volatility described in docs/contributor/inference-perf-fluctuation.md. The per-accelerator inference-concurrency-per-gpu constraint exists for exactly this.

Testing

go test -race ./pkg/recipe/... ./pkg/bundler/... ./pkg/tuning/... ./recipes/... \
                ./validators/deployment/... ./validators/performance/... ./pkg/chainsaw/...   # all pass
yamllint -c .yamllint.yaml recipes/overlays/gb300-*.yaml                                      # clean
make tuning-docs recipe-health-docs bom-docs                                                  # regenerated

Hardware validation — nhensley-gb300

Full pipeline per leaf: aicr snapshot → aicr recipe → aicr bundle → deploy → aicr validate.

Training + Kubeflow (17 components, 17/17 helm releases, 85 pods healthy, 8 GPUs advertised):

Phase	Result	Duration
deployment	4/4 passed	2m38s
conformance	8/8 passed	1m21s
performance	2/2 passed	5m50s

nccl-all-reduce-bw-nvls   841.17 GB/s   (floor >= 700)
nccl-all-reduce-bw-net     44.04 GB/s   (floor >= 40)

Reproduced on a second, independently provisioned GB300 cluster: nvls 842.65 GB/s (vs 841.17, +0.2%) and net 43.16 GB/s (vs 44.04, -2.0%), from a freshly built binary against the committed overlays with no local patches.

Both are per-GPU bus bandwidth (busbw) at the largest message size. The nvls floor is raised from the inherited GB200 value of 500, which was far too loose for GB300's NVLink fabric. The net floor stays at 40 rather than tracking the 44.04 GB/s measurement: the node runs the AWS-recommended EFA layout (primary ENA on network card 0 device 0, one EFA-only interface on card 0 device 1, one EFA per additional card) and cannot carry more — p6e-gb300r reports 9 network cards but cards 1-8 have MaximumNetworkInterfaces: 0, so a single EFA interface is the correct and maximal configuration. The measurement is therefore sound; the floor is kept below it because these recipes match on service + accelerator with no fabric or node-shape dimension, and a floor pinned to one shape's EFA path re-creates the SKU-agnostic false-fail that h100-eks-training documents for p5.4xlarge (#1256).

The nvls run provisioned a DRA ComputeDomain and IMEX ResourceClaimTemplate across both nodes (8 ranks), exercising the multi-node MNNVL path the >= 1.34 Kubernetes floor exists to guarantee.

Inference + Dynamo (18 components, 23 helm releases including agentgateway, agentgateway-crds, grove, dynamo-platform):

Phase	Result	Duration
deployment	4/4 passed	2m24s
conformance	11/11 passed	1m40s
performance	1/1 passed	7m13s

inference-perf at 128 concurrency/GPU, six runs across two independently provisioned clusters:

Run	throughput	TTFT p99	conditions
1	84,789 tok/s	677 ms	cluster A, reproducibility sweep
2	80,054 tok/s	667 ms	cluster A
3	83,792 tok/s	683 ms	cluster A
4	84,024 tok/s	711 ms	cluster A, committed overlay
5	80,661 tok/s	732 ms	cluster B, gang scheduling verified
6	81,691 tok/s	680 ms	cluster B, 16/16 checks

Spread of 5.8% on throughput and 9.8% on TTFT across two clusters. Run 6 is the reference result: full validation from the committed overlays with no local modification, deployment 4/4, conformance 11/11, performance 1/1.

KAI gang scheduling is confirmed active — PodGang and PodGroup created against the dynamo queue, scheduler issued five BindRequests, binder bound the frontend and all four GPU workers in ~1s, DynamoGraphDeployment reached successful: 4/4.

For reference the GB200 leaf measures 65,952 tok/s / 1,240 ms, so GB300 is ~29% faster at roughly half the latency. Floors are set at >= 60000 (25% below the lowest observation) and <= 2000 (the catalog-wide TTFT ceiling, ~2.9x above the highest observation — generous against this variance while still catching the 9-45s stall signature by an order of magnitude).

At the 256/GPU default the same cluster produced 20,769 tok/s / 33,320 ms. A CUDA 12 / sm_103 mismatch was the leading hypothesis and was tested directly — the CUDA 13.0.2 build of the same Dynamo version moved throughput 1.6% and latency 0.1%, ruling it out (#2385 was filed on that premise and is closed). Neither image ships sm_103 cubins, so GB300 serves via PTX JIT from sm_100 and still outperforms GB200; the runtime bump is folded into #2383 as version currency with no measured benefit.

The inference-gateway LoadBalancer was verified gated to 216.228.127.128/30 on the live Service, not merely passed as a flag.

Regenerated goldens and docs: catalog_parity_golden.yaml, coverage_golden.yaml, stock_render_golden.yaml, docs/integrator/components/nodewright.md, docs/user/recipe-health.md. make bom-docs produced no change to docs/user/container-images.md. Test tables extended in pkg/recipe/metadata_test.go and pkg/tuning/compute_test.go.

Full make qualify was not run locally (golangci-lint is blocked by a go1.26/go1.27 toolchain mismatch on this machine); CI covers it, and tests / Lint passes.

Risk Assessment

• Low — Additive overlays plus two narrowly-scoped validator fixes. No existing recipe's resolved output changes; the parity golden shows added entries and no moved digests for existing recipes.

Rollout notes: No migration. GB300 queries that previously failed to resolve now return a recipe, and nothing consumes these overlays until a user asks for --accelerator gb300. The nccl-all-reduce-bw-net floor is the one number to revisit once a fully-provisioned GB300 rack is available.

Checklist

• Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
• Linter passes (make lint) — via CI (tests / Lint); blocked locally by a go1.26/go1.27 toolchain mismatch
• 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)

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Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 6

These recipes are affected by this PR but carry no committed evidence pointer, so there is
nothing to verify. This is expected — evidence is hardware-gated and added over time.

• gb300-eks-inference
• gb300-eks-training
• gb300-eks-ubuntu-inference-dynamo
• gb300-eks-ubuntu-inference
• gb300-eks-ubuntu-training-kubeflow
• gb300-eks-ubuntu-training

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added GB300 recipe overlays for generic and EKS workloads. The overlays cover inference, training, Ubuntu, Kubeflow, and Dynamo variants. They configure GPU Operator, Nodewright, NFD, dependencies, and validation checks. Expanded coverage matrices, tests, tuning expectations, generated golden data, and documentation. Updated Nodewright readiness checks to reject terminating resources.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 98f61

The new GB300 EKS overlays add recipe resolution, but the current head still has a validation-status mismatch and an unresolved namespace-scoping concern in the node-tuning health check. These bounded issues warrant explicit owner follow-up before or with merge, without evidence of a critical production-impacting defect.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/aicr#1319: Adds related GB300 EKS overlays and topology-updater coverage.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR implements most of issue #2381, including the GB300 EKS overlay family, EFA and MNNVL/IMEX configuration, no-op Nodewright handling, performance thresholds, tests, and recipe resolution. Howeve…	Add or update recipes/overlays_validation_floor_test.go for all new overlays, commit the regenerated docs/user/container-images.md, run full make qualify, and provide complete validation evidence. If GB300 inference performance cannot be va…

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain related to the GB300 EKS overlay objective. The validator fixes support the no-op Nodewright configuration, while the tests, generated goldens, and documentation support the new rec…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding GB300 EKS training and inference recipe overlays. The “WIP” suffix is extra but does not make the title misleading.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the GB300 EKS overlay family, implementation choices, validation status, validator fixes, and regenerated artifacts.

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Explanation

The PR implements most of issue #2381, including the GB300 EKS overlay family, EFA and MNNVL/IMEX configuration, no-op Nodewright handling, performance thresholds, tests, and recipe resolution. However, the provided changeset does not show the required validation-floor test coverage or regenerated docs/user/container-images.md. The stated success criteria are also incomplete because full make qualify was not run and inference performance validation was deferred.

Resolution

Add or update recipes/overlays_validation_floor_test.go for all new overlays, commit the regenerated docs/user/container-images.md, run full make qualify, and provide complete validation evidence. If GB300 inference performance cannot be validated with the current runtime, document an approved issue-level exception or update #2381's acceptance criteria before merging. [#2381]

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Explanation

The changes remain related to the GB300 EKS overlay objective. The validator fixes support the no-op Nodewright configuration, while the tests, generated goldens, and documentation support the new recipe coverage. No unrelated code changes are evident.

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Require EFA during selection for both GB300 EKS overlays.

Criteria has no fabric field, and FindMatchingOverlays matches only service, accelerator, intent, OS, and platform. Therefore, both overlays can match GB300 EKS requests on RoCE clusters. The inherited eks recipe installs aws-efa, but no prerequisite excludes RoCE before deployment.

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