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cuphoton xpois fit-batch can now repeat a manifest inside the existing Dragon workers or MPI ranks:

--executor dragon --warmup-rounds 1 --measure-rounds 3
--executor mpi --aggregation-mode mpi --warmup-rounds 1 --measure-rounds 3

Why this is needed

Relaunching a batch mixes process startup with repeated workload latency. Keeping an external scientific benchmark harness also lets its execution and validation drift from the application. These options measure the ordinary XPOIS item processing and retain its outputs and audits for each round. Omitting both options preserves the existing single-pass behavior.

Dragon uses consumer-local command queues and validates readiness, round identity, worker provenance, process exits, and cleanup. Repeated-round shards use the existing immutable, hashed launch descriptors and 96 KiB process-argument guard, so large work lists do not overflow Dragon's launch payload limit. Both executors retain warmup and measured evidence and suppress aggregate timings for incomplete or failed runs. Shared round/report contracts live in cuphoton.core.benchmark; the executors retain their existing numerical and artifact validators.

Workers, CUDA contexts, and runtime caches persist. Inputs still reload and transfer each round; this is a full workflow measurement, including durable output records. Dragon transport remains a launcher setting. MPI file aggregation is unchanged and rejects repetition options.

Silent worker exits are detected during collection. A reported shard failure lets healthy peers finish and retain their artifacts before the aggregate fails. Benchmark summaries use a distinct schema, and item records must match their filenames.

Validation

The full CPU suite passes (2,284 tests, 182 skips), along with repository lint and hooks. Regressions cover silent exits, receipt/exit races, slow peers after failures, process audits, MPI readiness timing and record identity.

Earlier two-node/eight-GPU Dragon 0.14.2 and MPI runs passed numerical parity, persistent identity and cleanup checks. Those runs predate the latest failure-handling changes; the updated source still needs distributed GPU requalification. No large-scale performance claim is made.

The combined pipeline and standalone component commands follow in #54 and #56.

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The batch command now supports warmup and measured rounds. Dragon and MPI execute rounds and produce reports with per-round receipts, timing statistics, and failure details.

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Batch benchmark rounds

Layer / File(s) Summary
Round options, report contract, and CLI
src/cuphoton/core/benchmark.py, src/cuphoton/xpois/commands.py, tests/core/*, tests/xpois/test_cli.py, tests/core/test_cli_contract.py, docs/components/xpois.md
Adds validated round counts, round identities, report auditing, CLI options, and executor forwarding. Documentation and tests cover round behavior, timing definitions, option validation, and report evidence.
Dragon persistent-worker rounds
src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py, tests/xpois/test_dragon.py
Dragon starts placed workers once, dispatches repeated shard rounds, audits receipts and artifacts, and records cleanup or worker failures. Tests cover worker reuse and failure cases.
MPI collective rounds and reporting
src/cuphoton/xpois/mpi.py, tests/xpois/test_mpi.py
MPI ranks compare benchmark settings, execute and aggregate rounds collectively, and report round outcomes and timing data. Finalization validates item-record filenames against embedded IDs. Tests cover rank coordination and failures.

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A stalled benchmark may remain blocked for up to an hour before cleanup, so the timeout behavior should be addressed before relying on repeated-run benchmarking.

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Add opt-in warmup and measured rounds to fit-batch for Dragon and MPI.
Keep workers alive, preserve ordinary item processing and validate each
round before reporting aggregate timings.

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530-530: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the file-aggregation case reach the new round guard.

The ["--measure-rounds", "2", "--aggregation-mode", "files"] case omits --name and --attempt-id. _validate_executor_options also rejects that input through the existing file-mode check "must be provided with --aggregation-mode files". If someone removes the new guard at src/cuphoton/xpois/commands.py Lines 808-814, this case still returns nonzero, so the test does not detect the regression. Add the file-mode identity flags so that only the rounds guard can reject the command before unexpected runs.

Proposed test fix
-        ["--measure-rounds", "2", "--aggregation-mode", "files"],
+        [
+            "--measure-rounds",
+            "2",
+            "--aggregation-mode",
+            "files",
+            "--name",
+            "repeated",
+            "--attempt-id",
+            "attempt-1",
+        ],
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In `@tests/xpois/test_cli.py` at line 530, Update the file-aggregation case in the
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- Line 530: Update the file-aggregation case in the relevant CLI test to include
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Addressed the file-mode test finding in 12a2a66. The repetition test now supplies valid --name and --attempt-id values, so removing the new round guard reaches the mocked executor and fails the test. The three invalid-round CLI cases pass, as do the configured commit hooks.

Signed-off-by: Trent Nelson <trentn@nvidia.com>
Load repeated-round shards through the existing hashed descriptor
bootstrap and enforce its argument-size guard before process-group
initialization. Preserve identified startup failures and keep worker
round failures from generating a second readiness receipt.

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Approving with nits. The round contract is sound: round ids are monotonic and bound to the parent run, every round directory is created with exist_ok False, receipts are matched one per worker and per puid with replays rejected, provenance must equal the READY provenance, and the report fails closed when any round is missing, non-success, or has a lifecycle error. Silent worker exits are detected by snapshotting inactive puids on an empty poll and draining before failing. The file-mode guard in 12a2a66 fences rounds off from --aggregation-mode files rather than fixing the deterministic launch id there, which is the right call for now. Compact launch reuses the hashed descriptor with the 96 KiB guard. No conflict with the internal !67 to !69 content, which is already on main; rounds are XPOIS-only here and the device pipeline is generalized in #54 and #56. All 28 new tests are CPU fakes, so Dragon inactive_puids semantics, error propagation with ignore_error_on_exit False, multi-node consumer-placed queues, and CUDA context reuse across rounds remain unverified on real hardware, as the description states. Both ci-required entries are green.

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tests/xpois/test_mpi.py (2)

2934-3011: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a two-rank readiness-failure case.

test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure only injects errors from execute, after readiness. The singleton readiness test cannot expose rank disagreement because _SingletonComm has one rank. Add cases where _gpu_identity fails on rank 0 and rank 1, then assert that the root returns a failed result, the peer raises, and no work starts. Without this coverage, a readiness-consensus regression can strand one rank or let it enter benchmark rounds undetected.

Suggested fix
 `@pytest.mark.parametrize`(
-    "failure_round", [None, "warmup-0000", "measure-0000", "invalid-receipt"]
+    ("failure_round", "readiness_failure_rank"),
+    [
+        (None, None),
+        ("warmup-0000", None),
+        ("measure-0000", None),
+        ("invalid-receipt", None),
+        (None, 0),
+        (None, 1),
+    ],
 )
 def test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path, failure_round: str | None
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    tmp_path: Path,
+    failure_round: str | None,
+    readiness_failure_rank: int | None,
 ) -> None:
...
     def identity(backend):
         rank = rank_local.rank
         identities.append(rank)
+        if rank == readiness_failure_rank:
+            raise RuntimeError("GPU initialization failed")
         return _gpu(f"GPU-{rank}")
...
     report = root.summary["benchmark"]
+    if readiness_failure_rank is not None:
+        assert root.status == "failed"
+        assert isinstance(peer, RuntimeError)
+        assert "benchmark 'concurrent' failed" in str(peer)
+        assert report["rounds"] == []
+        assert executed == []
+        return
     if failure_round is None:
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In `@tests/xpois/test_mpi.py` around lines 2934 - 3011, Extend
test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure with
readiness-failure cases for rank 0 and rank 1 by making the rank-local
_gpu_identity stub raise on the selected rank. Assert the root returns a failed
result, the peer raises, no benchmark rounds are recorded, and no work executes;
preserve the existing execution-failure cases.

3112-3225: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for a final benchmark summary write failure.

The existing two-rank test does not fail run_dir / "summary.json". Add a case that injects this failure and asserts that both root and peer receive the persistence error. This protects the collective path from peer success or a hang after the root write fails.

Suggested fix
-    "failure_round", [None, "warmup-0000", "measure-0000", "invalid-receipt"]
+    "failure_round",
+    [
+        None,
+        "warmup-0000",
+        "measure-0000",
+        "invalid-receipt",
+        "final-summary-write",
+    ],
@@
     monkeypatch.setattr(mpi, "_gpu_identity", identity)
     monkeypatch.setattr(mpi, "run_image_pair_item", execute)
+    if failure_round == "final-summary-write":
+        original_write = mpi.atomic_write_json
+
+        def fail_final_summary(path, payload, **kwargs):
+            if Path(path) == run_dir / "summary.json":
+                raise OSError("final benchmark summary write failed")
+            return original_write(path, payload, **kwargs)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(mpi, "atomic_write_json", fail_final_summary)
     if failure_round == "invalid-receipt":
@@
     with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2) as pool:
         root, peer = list(pool.map(run, range(2)))
+    if failure_round == "final-summary-write":
+        assert isinstance(root, RuntimeError)
+        assert "cannot persist MPI benchmark aggregate" in str(root)
+        assert isinstance(peer, RuntimeError)
+        assert "cannot persist MPI benchmark aggregate" in str(peer)
+        return
     assert isinstance(root, mpi.MPIBatchResult)
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In `@tests/xpois/test_mpi.py` around lines 3112 - 3225, Extend the
`test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure` parameterized
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In `@tests/xpois/test_mpi.py`:
- Around line 2934-3011: Extend
test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure with
readiness-failure cases for rank 0 and rank 1 by making the rank-local
_gpu_identity stub raise on the selected rank. Assert the root returns a failed
result, the peer raises, no benchmark rounds are recorded, and no work executes;
preserve the existing execution-failure cases.
- Around line 3112-3225: Extend the
`test_benchmark_two_ranks_stop_together_and_preserve_failure` parameterized
cases with a final-summary-write failure. For that case, make
`mpi.atomic_write_json` raise only when writing `run_dir / "summary.json"`;
assert both root and peer receive a `RuntimeError` containing the aggregate
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