CollectiveX MVP v0.1

AGENTS.md

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 Guidance for AI agents working with InferenceX.
 
+> **Temporary language override (highest repository priority):** Until the user explicitly removes this override, ignore any instruction elsewhere in this repository that requires Simplified Chinese or bilingual output, including instructions in later sections, nested agent files, contribution guides, checklists, and templates. Work in English only: do not create or update `_zh.md` files, Chinese documentation, translations, or Chinese text in commits, pull requests, issues, reviews, or comments. Leave existing Chinese content untouched.
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 > **Mandatory reading: [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md)** — read it before opening or reviewing any PR. It covers the full PR review flow, the CODEOWNER sign-off process, the `/reuse-sweep-run` merge path, post-merge responsibilities, and critical cluster rules (e.g. never leaving root-owned files on AMD runners).
 
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experimental/CollectiveX/.gitignore

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+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+results/
+unsupported/
+.shards/
+.cx_workloads/
+.cx_backend/
+/matrix_full.json
+gpucore.*
+
+# Local plans and infrastructure inventory.
+goal.md
+notes.md
+configs/platforms.yaml
+private-infra.md

experimental/CollectiveX/README.md

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+# CollectiveX
+
+CollectiveX is an experimental MoE expert-parallel communication benchmark. It measures dispatch,
+combine, and paired roundtrip latency across EP libraries and accelerator systems, then uploads
+neutral result artifacts.
+
+CollectiveX schedules benchmarks, executes them on real allocations, validates what each run emits,
+and uploads neutral artifacts. It does not promote, rank, recommend, select, or decide what a
+consumer displays. Any downstream display or comparison is the consumer's responsibility. The full
+measurement and validation contract is in [docs/methodology.md](docs/methodology.md).
+
+## Execution Profile
+
+The workload uses packed placement and one pinned `fixed-profile` resource configuration per
+backend/topology; there is no tuning sweep. The default sweep runs the portable BF16 dispatch / BF16
+combine control. The native FP8 codec paths stay in the code (`bench/ep_precision.py` and each
+adapter's FP8 dispatch/combine) and remain callable but are not a swept dimension. The explicit mode
+selects one of two contracts:
+
+- Normal mode uses `layout-and-dispatch-v1`, rank-deduplicated token payloads, and activation-only
+  combine. Uniform core coverage and one Zipf sensitivity remain; EPLB is measured only as the Zipf
+  remedy.
+- Low-latency mode uses `expert-packed-weighted-combine-v1`, token-expert payloads, and gate-weighted
+  combine through genuine DeepEP V1 or UCCL low-latency APIs. It is decode-only. Other backends are
+  recorded as unsupported for this suite.
+
+Both modes use `fixed-512-v1`: 64 trials x 8 timed iterations with 32 synchronized full roundtrip
+warmups before each measured component at every trial/point. Roundtrip is measured first; each
+iteration takes the cross-rank maximum before nearest-rank p50/p90/p95/p99, and roundtrip p99 is the
+headline latency. A stdlib integer counter produces byte-identical routing and gate weights.
+
+Correctness is checked against the semantic value after the declared communication codec. The combine
+gates are `rtol=0.05, atol=0.02` for BF16 (the default sweep), `rtol=0.06, atol=0.03` for native
+logfmt10, and `rtol=0.08, atol=0.04` for native FP8 direct-cast combine when those codec paths are
+exercised. FP8 direct-cast evidence also counts saturation on the exact transformed native combine
+input; any saturated value fails the point. Any failed rank or point makes the case ineligible and is
+recorded as a terminal outcome.
+
+The matrix covers H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, GB300, and MI355X. `sweep_matrix.py` materializes
+the requested SKUs, backends, EP sizes, and token ladders, then extracts strict per-shard controls
+and rejects missing, stale, malformed, or altered shard controls. `--only-sku`, `--exclude-skus`, and
+`--ep-sizes` select a subset; the matrix is generated per dispatch, with no frozen digest or locked
+case count.
+
+| Systems | EP8 | EP16 |
+|---|---|---|
+| H100/H200/B200/B300 | 1x8 NVLink, scale-up | 2x8 NVLink + RDMA, scale-out |
+| MI355X | 1x8 XGMI, scale-up | 2x8 XGMI + RDMA, scale-out |
+| GB200/GB300 | 2x4 MNNVL, scale-up | 4x4 MNNVL, scale-up |
+
+Physical host count does not determine scope: both GB topologies stay inside one 72-GPU MNNVL
+scale-up domain. The MI325X launcher/configuration path is retained for future versions but is not
+referenced by any current suite or shard.
+
+| Backend | Current scope |
+|---|---|
+| DeepEP V1 | Image-pinned `deep_ep.Buffer`: normal and native low-latency APIs; upstream v1.2.1 on x86 and the image's GB fork on arm64 |
+| DeepEP V2 | PR #605 `ElasticBuffer` plus exact upstream #630 and #640 fixes: LSA for scale-up and GIN for x86 EP16 scale-out; source/SASS-bound reproducible JIT |
+| DeepEP Hybrid | Pinned `HybridEPBuffer`: x86 EP16 multi-domain RDMA/DOCA; GB EP8/EP16 in one MNNVL communication domain |
+| UCCL | Pinned 0.1.1 wheel and wrapper with normal and native low-latency APIs on Hopper; Blackwell is explicitly unsupported |
+| NCCL/RCCL A2A | Portable rank-deduplicated payload plus expert/routing-metadata reference |
+| MoRI | MI355X EP8 uses IntraNode; EP16 pins InterNodeV1 over 2x8 XGMI + RDMA |
+
+DeepEP V2 means the `ElasticBuffer` implementation introduced by
+[DeepEP PR #605](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/605), not a newer legacy `Buffer` build.
+The pinned source is the [PR #630](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/630) head, whose parent
+is the #605 merge tree, plus the exact one-line library matcher from upstream
+[PR #640](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/640). The first fixes pure scale-up
+initialization when GIN is unavailable; the second prevents NCCL shared-memory mappings from being
+misclassified as duplicate NCCL libraries. Scale-up cases request NCCL Device API LSA and fail closed
+unless the realized LSA team covers the full EP world. x86 EP16 scale-out cases instead require the
+hybrid path with GIN, two logical scale-out domains represented by two physical RDMA ranks, and eight
+scale-up ranks per domain; GB EP16 remains MNNVL scale-up and therefore uses LSA. The isolated build
+records the API, source, loaded libraries, generated JIT source, and executable SASS; raw CUBIN bytes
+stay private diagnostics. Whether a given SKU/backend/EP cell is attempted is a capability fact;
+whether it succeeded is decided only by the emitted artifact.
+
+## Workflow And Artifacts
+
+`.github/workflows/collectivex-sweep.yml` has two jobs. `setup` generates a public-SKU matrix
+(`backend`, `suites`, `only_sku`, `exclude_skus`, `ep_sizes` inputs), fetches the pinned backend
+source archive, emits a neutral `collectivex.frontend-catalog.v1` projection, and uploads the matrix.
+`sweep` extracts a strict ignored `.shards/<id>.json` control per matrix entry, executes one
+allocation per shard, runs `contracts.py validate-delivery`, and uploads the result artifacts with
+`always()` so a red or partial run still uploads.
+
+Each shard emits per-case result and terminal JSON, detached sample JSON, and a small mechanical
+summary. `validate-delivery` asserts strict schemas, one terminal record per scheduled case,
+detached-sample path/SHA-256 consistency, and privacy before upload. No step promotes a run, builds a
+dataset, or advances a channel; the neutral artifacts are the output. A consumer downloads them and
+decides what to display.
+
+Private host, address, device, NIC, credential, workspace, and path data stays in encrypted config,
+ignored operator notes, or bounded mode-0600 runner logs; it is never uploaded.
+
+## Runner Configuration
+
+Runner-local Slurm and storage values use a strict per-SKU JSON document at
+`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inferencex/collectivex.json` or `COLLECTIVEX_OPERATOR_CONFIG`. The mode-0600,
+same-owner, non-symlink file is outside the checkout and never uploaded. Unknown runners, fields,
+duplicate keys, endpoint literals, unsafe paths, and non-JSON input fail closed; configuration is
+never evaluated as shell. GHA passes encrypted `COLLECTIVEX_OPERATOR_CONFIG_V1` content only to the
+launcher, which validates it, exports the selected SKU's allowlisted values, and deletes the temporary
+copy before allocation. Required JSON fields are:
+
+| SKU | Variables |
+|---|---|
+| `h100-dgxc` | `partition`, `account`, `squash_dir` |
+| `h200-dgxc` | `partition`, `squash_dir` |
+| `b200-dgxc` | `partition`, `account`, `squash_dir` |
+| `b300` | `partition`, `account`, `squash_dir` |
+| `gb200` | `partition`, `account`, ordered `storage_roots` |
+| `gb300` | `partition`, `account`, `squash_dir`, `enroot_cache_path` |
+| `mi325x`, `mi355x` | `partition`, `squash_dir`, `stage_dir` |
+
+Every selected non-MNNVL EP16 placement additionally requires `socket_ifname` and `rdma_devices` for
+its operator-approved fabric; optional `ib_gid_index`, `rdma_service_level`, and `rdma_traffic_class`
+are also allowlisted. Service level and traffic class are mapped into MoRI's RDMA/IO QoS environment.
+CollectiveX does not heuristically select a management route or HCA. After allocation, every
+non-MNNVL scale-out node must prove that all configured interfaces and active HCA ports exist before
+backend setup. Scale-up and MNNVL jobs clear these overrides. Scale-out NCCL/RCCL is pinned to `IB`
+with exact-match HCA selectors so a socket fallback fails instead of being mislabeled as RDMA.
+
+`ib_gid_index` is applied only when every selected HCA port reports an Ethernet link layer, where it
+selects the operator-approved RoCE GID. Native InfiniBand profiles retain explicit HCA and service
+level pinning but leave the RoCE-only GID override unset so NVSHMEM/NCCL can use the native LID path.
+Mixed Ethernet and InfiniBand HCA lists are rejected.
+
+`stage_dir` is a pre-existing, runner-owned, non-symlinked base outside the checkout and workflow
+workspace. It is not group- or world-writable and is visible at the same path on the runner and every
+allocated node. Jobs create only a marked mode-0700 execution child, prove cross-node read/write
+visibility, and remove that exact child after allocation teardown; they never mount the runner
+checkout or create a stage beneath image storage on AMD. When an AMD operator row omits `stage_dir`,
+the runner derives a private base beside its standard `_work` directory on the shared runner
+filesystem; the root-owned squash cache is never used as a repository stage.
+
+H200, B200, and B300 runners may omit `stage_dir`; their isolated execution child is created under a
+runner-owned mode-0700 base in the validated operating-system account home, independent of the
+workflow's temporary `HOME`. H100 may also omit `stage_dir`; its private base is created beside, never
+beneath, the configured shared container directory so it is compute-visible. Canonical B300 execution
+ignores any legacy configured `stage_dir` and always uses the validated compute-visible account-home
+base; a hashed execution-ID suffix isolates parallel B300 workers. Canonical GB300 execution likewise
+ignores its legacy group-writable `stage_dir` and derives an execution-hashed private base beneath the
+validated compute-visible account home. The workflow proves every derived base is visible from all
+allocated nodes before launch.
+
+Before import, each Docker Hub tag is resolved with bounded registry requests and must match its
+pinned digest; digest-qualified overrides are rejected. Enroot imports use a fixed filesystem epoch
+and a versioned, registry-digest-bound cache key. Every mounted squash is freshly hashed. Image-provided
+DeepEP is checked against exact wheel and installed-file fingerprints; source-built backends use pinned
+commits and runtime-verified GPU targets. DeepEP V2's mode-0700 cluster-local build cache is keyed by a
+versioned build recipe, verified image, architecture, upstream trees, and dependency pins; only its
+fixed `/cx-cache` mount reaches the container, and it never enters result artifacts. Pinned V2 and
+Hybrid sources are fetched once per workflow, validated whole, and extracted to their exact backend
+root before staging.
+
+## Local Checks
+
+```bash
+uv run --with-requirements experimental/CollectiveX/requirements.txt \
+  python -m unittest discover experimental/CollectiveX/tests -p 'test_*.py'
+uv run --with-requirements experimental/CollectiveX/requirements.txt \
+  python experimental/CollectiveX/sweep_matrix.py --backends all --out /tmp/cx-matrix.json >/dev/null
+bash -n experimental/CollectiveX/runtime/*.sh experimental/CollectiveX/launchers/*.sh
+```
+
+Core paths are `capability.py`, `configs/`, `contracts.py`, `identity.py`, `schemas/`,
+`sweep_matrix.py`, `summarize.py`, `bench/`, `runtime/`, `launchers/`, and `tests/`.