chore(ci): 👷 benchmark the ladder rungs, one testbed per shape and silicon by diagonal-hamiltonian · Pull Request #323 · Algorithmiq/monoprop

diagonal-hamiltonian · 2026-09-01T11:48:18Z

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Stacked on #317, which defines the rungs. This is the continuous-benchmarking side only.

What was wrong

The benchmark lanes declared no shape and no problem. monoprop_PARTITIONS was unset everywhere,
so resolve_partition_count_'s ranks == 1 ? cores : 1 decided it — every point in the
ubuntu-26.04 and aws-c7i-4xlarge series was one partition per core of whatever runner it landed
on, unrecorded. A runner resize would have moved every series without moving a testbed name.

The first revision of this PR fixed the shape and left the problem: the rungs were named after
benches/LADDER.md but ran the suite's dataclass defaults, so the sizes had nothing to do with the
rungs they were named after, and nobody had measured what they cost.

What it does now

Each rung declares a shape, a round count and a problem, and the tables below are measured, not
derived. rungs is one rung per line, <name> <ranks> <partitions> <rounds> | <pytest args>.

rung	`R` × `P`	launch	`monoprop_PARTITIONS`	rounds	testbed
L1	1 × 1	`pytest benches`	1	3	`<cpu>-8c-L1`
L2a	1 × 8	`pytest benches`	8	1	`<cpu>-8c-L2a`
L2b	4 × 2	`mpiexec -n 4 --map-by slot:PE=2 --bind-to core`	2	1	`<cpu>-8c-L2b`

R × P = 8 at both L2 rungs, so L2a → L2b moves the process count and nothing else. Rounds is 1
above L1 because pedantic builds round k+1's propagator before releasing round k's — at these
sizes that is a memory setting, not a statistics setting.

L1 — LADDER.md's own rows, one thread

row	flags	`-k`	terms	~s	~GiB
hubbard `propagate`	`--hubbard-cutoff=10 --hubbard-lower-atol=4.2e-05`	`test_model_propagate and hubbard`	9,953,109	25	0.87
pauli `propagate`	`--pauli-cutoff=12 --pauli-lower-atol=1.22e-04`	`test_model_propagate and pauli`	10,069,308	21	1.06
random `gradient`	`--num-generators=1000 --num-modes=142 --cutoff=6 --obs-terms=295000`	`test_random_gradient and heisenberg`	19,902,244	11	2.60

One process, one selector — the three flag sets use disjoint options. Whole-rung peak 2.60 GiB in
3:53. The term counts reproduce LADDER.md's L1 table exactly. LADDER.md's fourth L1 row, the same
gradient pared at 1e-10, is dropped: --pare-threshold is session-wide and cannot share a
process with the unpared row.

L2a and L2b — one operator, three operations

build_graph publishes the graph energy and gradient evaluate, so the three share one operator
and the peak is the max over them, not the sum. propagate is excluded: it holds its own. Both
rungs take the same flags.

-k "(test_random_build_graph or test_random_energy or test_random_gradient) and heisenberg"
--num-generators=1000 --num-modes=142 --cutoff=6 --obs-terms=2500000

row	terms	~s L2a	~GiB L2a	~s L2b	~GiB/node L2b	~GiB worst rank
random `build_graph`	167,515,463	83	19.11	68	23.71	6.14
random `energy`	167,515,463	13	17.54	6	20.36	5.17
random `gradient`	167,515,463	39	18.85	16	21.68	5.50

Peak 19.11 GiB at L2a and 23.71 GiB/node at L2b, in 135 s and 90 s. ~GiB/node is the sum over the
node's ranks; it errs high, because a page shared between ranks is charged to each.

--obs-terms=2500000 is the largest measured point that fits, not an interpolation: the next
step tried, 3.5M, reaches 35.49 GiB/node against the instance's 32 GiB. A two-point fit over 1.5M
and 2.5M predicted 31.1 GiB there and under-called it by 3.9, so this axis is not interpolated.

The term count is identical at both shapes — the geometry-independence check, which the terms
measure holds to 0%. L2b's node sum is 1.24x L2a's peak here against 1.29x at 104M terms, so the
per-rank multiplier falls as the operator grows.

Review findings fixed

--bench-rounds 3 was a 2× memory error, not a statistics choice: pedantic holds round
k+1's propagator alongside round k's. Rounds is now per rung, 1 on the sized ones.
Placement was printed, never asserted, and from rank 0's fields rather than the *_min
reductions that exist to catch a partial collapse. check_shape.py now fails a rung when
partitions > 1 and single_cpu_threads_min == 0. It does not fire on an all-zero summary,
which means /proc was unreadable rather than nothing pinned.
Pinning was the caller's option. --map-by slot:PE=$monoprop_PARTITIONS --bind-to core moved
into bench-ci-mpi, which cannot now run unpinned and refuses without monoprop_PARTITIONS.
*ARGS is freed for the pytest args the rungs need.
The testbed name reads cpuinfo that is already recorded. cpu_slug.py takes
machine_info.cpu.brand_raw out of the time-<label>.json pytest-benchmark already writes, so
the name derives from an artifact the run uploads rather than from a second collector. No
dependency is added: py-cpuinfo is present as pytest-benchmark's own.
Comments cut to one line each; benchmarks.mdx's prose replaced by the tables above.

Second review round

ranks/partitions were unvalidated, so a typo coerced to 0 in the bash arithmetic and
failed inside mpiexec -n <word> instead of naming the field. All three fields now require a
positive decimal, per-rank excepted — which also rejects 0 (division by zero at per-rank,
mpiexec -n 0 otherwise) and leading zeros (08 is an invalid octal literal there).
BENCH_CORES ignored the affinity mask. psutil.cpu_count(logical=False) counts the whole
machine, so under a cpuset or taskset every rung was sized from cores the run never had. It is
now the distinct (package, core) pairs among sched_getaffinity(0), read from /sys — still
physical, so an SMT pair on one core resolves to 1. Unreadable topology falls back to psutil
only when nothing is masked, and otherwise refuses.
cpu_slug.py raised on a malformed artifact. A truncated file or a missing
machine_info.cpu.brand_raw is now one ::error:: naming the file and the field.
bench-ci-resolve-cores prints BENCH_CORES=<n> when GITHUB_ENV is unset, so the ladder runs
outside Actions; bench-ci-rungs names the recipe that supplies it.

What is not measured

On this silicon, not the runner's. Every cell was measured on an 8-core mask of a Deucalion
x86 node (znver2, SMT off). Term counts are deterministic at --seed=0 and transfer exactly;
memory transfers well; the ~s column is indicative for Sapphire Rapids.

SMT is off on the calibration machine. PE=2 resolved against cores there, so each rank got a
2-CPU mask. On the runner (SMT on) --bind-to core should give each rank 2 cores / 4 hwthreads and
the engine 2 physical cores; the assertion holds either way, but the mask figure will differ.

L2b's 4 ranks is a judgement, not an optimum. The instance is one NUMA domain, so LADDER.md's
one-rank-per-domain rule picks no number. 4 × 2 makes L2b the memory-worst rung, which is the right
place to hang the ceiling, and keeps more than one partition per rank where 8 × 1 would not.

Nothing benchmarks until a maintainer sets vars.BENCH_BARE_METAL. bench_main.yml is deleted
and the README badge with it, rather than pointing at a workflow that never runs: a GitHub-hosted
runner has ~2 physical cores, making L2a 1 × 2 and L2b 2 × 1 — restatements of L1 through a noise
floor no threshold survives.

Verification

check	result
L1 / L2a / L2b at the flags and shapes above, on an 8-core mask	11/11 runs rc=0, job COMPLETED in 23:01
L1 term counts against LADDER.md's L1 table	exact: 9,953,109 / 10,069,308 / 19,902,244
terms identical at 1x8 and 4x2	167,515,463 both
`--obs-terms` bracketing	2.5M = 23.71 GiB/node fits; 3.5M = 35.49 does not
placement at 1x8 (`P` == physical cores)	8 of 11 threads on a CPU each, 8-CPU mask — the boundary does not collapse
placement at 4x2 under the CI `mpiexec` line verbatim	2 of 5 threads pinned, 2-CPU mask per rank — `PE=2` resolved against cores, not hwthreads
`mpiexec -n 4 --map-by slot:PE=2 --bind-to core` vs `srun --cpu-bind=cores`	identical shape and pinning
rung parser, 18 cases	real block, rung-after-MPI (fd 3), unbalanced quote, quotes-only, missing rounds, non-numeric rounds, oversubscribed, `per-rank`→0, no args, comments/blanks, plus `0` and `08` in each of the three fields — all as intended; harness generated from `bench.yml` itself
`-k` expression through `just`	arrives as one argv element; `bench-ci-mpi` refuses without `monoprop_PARTITIONS` (rc=1)
`cpu_slug.py`	`AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core Processor` → `amd-epyc-7742-64-core` end-to-end; truncated JSON, missing `machine_info`, `"cpu": null` and no artifact each give one `::error::` naming the file
`prek run --from-ref <base> --to-ref HEAD`	all 24 hooks pass, rc=0 — the gate `lint` runs
`check_shape.py` matrix	7/7: the three real results pass; wrong partitions, wrong ranks and a collapsed placement each fail; an all-zero pinning summary does not false-alarm
`visible_physical_cores` against a synthetic 16-hwthread / 8-core / 1-package topology	16 hwthreads → 8; an 8-hwthread mask → 8; an SMT pair on one core → 1; unreadable `/sys` → `None`
rank 0 is the only writer of `time-<label>.json`	`benches/conftest.py:283-290` nulls the writer off rank 0, and `--benchmark-json` is `type=Path`, so no rank opens the file at parse time
`pytest packages/monoprop-bench-tools/tests`	38 passed
all three workflow YAML files	parse

Third review round

The CI-only recipes are hoisted into bench.yml. All six bench-ci* recipes are gone from
the justfile, which keeps only bench, bench-mpi, bench-build-mpi and bench-smoke. Three
(bench.yml, <step name>) entries added to ALLOWED in tools/check-workflow-commands.py.
bench-ci-resolve-cores's body became .github/workflows/scripts/resolve_cores.py. The rung
loop moved verbatim; the 16 parser cases behave identically against the extracted run: block.
The badge is back, pointing at bench_bare_metal.yml — the workflow that actually runs.
pytest-benchmark 5.3.0, in its own commit, which swaps py-cpuinfo for py-cpuinfo2.
machine_info.cpu.brand_raw survives the fork: Apple M5 → apple-m5 end to end.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added structured serial and MPI benchmark ladders with configurable execution steps.
- Added validation for benchmark shape, CPU configuration, and core availability.
- Added separate result artifacts and CPU-specific Bencher tracking for each benchmark rung.
Documentation
- Expanded benchmarking guidance for local execution, resource requirements, artifacts, and ladder configuration.
- Updated benchmark badge and tool usage examples.
Chores
- Removed the dedicated main-branch benchmark workflow and consolidated benchmarking in the reusable workflow.

github-actions · 2026-09-01T11:52:16Z

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🤖 _AI text below_ 🤖 `benches/LADDER.md` — *the benchmarking ladder for sensitive PRs* — is five groups of benchmark configurations at the sizes the library is actually used at. Each row gives the exact pytest flags and the `-k` selector that produce it, so a group is a handful of ordinary `just bench` invocations. Nothing runs these, and no benchmark gates a PR. ```bash just bench L1-hubbard-branch --hubbard-cutoff=10 --hubbard-lower-atol=4.2e-05 \ -k "test_model_propagate and hubbard" ``` | group | shape | what it is for | | --- | --- | --- | | **L1** — one thread | 1 rank, 1 partition | hubbard and pauli `propagate` at ~10M terms; random `gradient` at ~20M, paired with and without `--pare-threshold` | | **L2a** — one node, one rank, ~1B terms | 1 rank, all cores | all four operations over three models and both pictures | | **L2b** — one node of ranks, same problems | `N`=1, `R × P` = cores | MPI with no network in it | | **L3** — several nodes, same problems | L2b's `R` and `P`, your `N` | the same shape at `N` > 1 isolates the network | | **L4** — strong and weak scaling | your `R`, `P`; `N` = 1…64 | hubbard `propagate` on one size sequence; both ladders built from it | ## What the review asked for **Gradient rows at 20M terms, with and without `pare_threshold=1e-10`.** `--pare-threshold` did not exist; it is now a pytest option threaded into `expectation_value_functional` and `expectation_value_and_gradient_functional` for both the random and the fixed-model benchmarks. Unset reproduces today's behaviour exactly, so the Bencher series are unbroken. Measured at 1 rank / 1 partition / 1 thread (`_core.so` md5 `b201ec4`), `--obs-terms=295000` landing 19,902,244 terms: | row | ~s (2 reps) | ~GiB | | --- | ---: | ---: | | random `gradient` | 11.05, 11.02 | 2.5 | | random `gradient`, `--pare-threshold=1e-10` | 0.75, 0.75 | 2.8 | Hubbard is not a candidate — 29 successive `build_graph` calls retain 29 layer-sets and `skip_if_graph_will_not_fit` skips it — so the gradient rows use the random problem, whose size is directly dialable. Proved the knob reaches the engine rather than being swallowed: `1e-10` leaves the energy bit-identical (the point of a retention cutoff), `1e10` moves it 0.8049 → 0.8307. **L3's ratios removed.** The "against L2" column is gone; L3 reads like L2 and L1 — flags, `-k`, terms, `~s`, `~GiB/node` — with the shape those cells were measured at stated underneath (`N`=4, `R`=8, `P`=16, medians of two reps) rather than as a prescription. **L3 and L4 generalised, and the shape made mandatory.** `N`, `R` and `P` are the caller's throughout, and `benches/conftest.py` now **refuses to start a session of more than one rank with `monoprop_PARTITIONS` unset**. The engine's own default is `ranks == 1 ? cores : 1`, so an unset knob measured one partition per rank at a plausible wall time — a trap the document used to merely warn about. Every rank raises after the collective `_nodes()`, so nothing is left in a collective. One-rank runs — `just bench`, `bench-smoke`, `bench-ci`, every CI workflow — are untouched. **The shape recorded where the benchmarks record.** `meta` already carried `ranks`, `nodes`, `ranks_per_node` and `monoprop_threads`, with report columns for each — but `partitions_env` was written *only when the env var was set*, so an undeclared partition count and an unrecorded one both rendered `—`. It is now recorded unconditionally, `"unset"` when absent. ## Model sizes are inputs now | was | now | | --- | --- | | `--pauli-num-qubits` accepted any value while `HEAVY_HEX_TOPOLOGY` stayed the fixed 127-qubit IBM Eagle map — silently a different model, or an index past the operator | raises, naming the topology as the reason and pointing at `--pauli-lower-atol` for sizing | | `--hubbard-observable-site` above `--hubbard-num-sites` — a documented "trap" that produced a wrong observable | raises | | a mode count above the extension's compile-time `MAX_NUM_MODES` failed deep inside the extension | raises, naming the limit and the cmake define | | `--pauli-observable-qubit` outside the register | raises | `LADDER.md` gains a *Model size knobs* table covering these plus `--obs-terms`, which is an upper bound rather than an exact count: monomials are drawn independently and duplicates collapse, by about `obs_terms / 2·C(2·num_modes, gen_length)`. Checked against a direct count at 142 modes — 0.03/0.19/0.37% measured at 200k/1M/2M draws against 0.04/0.19/0.38% predicted — giving 0.06% at L1's 295k and 2.8% at L2's 14.75M. Deterministic for a fixed `--seed`, so the calibration reproduces. ## Also - `just bench-mpi` never forwarded `monoprop_PARTITIONS` or `monoprop_NUM_THREADS` through `mpiexec -x`, though its own doc comment showed `monoprop_NUM_THREADS=2 just bench-mpi …`. Both are forwarded now, guarded so an unset one is not an mpiexec error. ## Traps, each from a failure it caught during calibration - **`srun --cpu-bind=cores` with no `--cpus-per-task` on the `srun` confines each task to one core.** Measured in one allocation: no flags → 128, `--cpus-per-task=128` → 128, `--cpu-bind=cores` alone → 1. ~100x, with nothing in the timing to say so. - **The report runs outside `srun`.** Under it, one process per rank races to write the same file. The two JSON artifacts are safe: only rank 0 writes them. - **A two-operation row's peak is the MAX over its operations, never the sum.** `HighWaterMark` resets `VmHWM` per benchmark, so both windows contain the same resident operator. - `--cpu-bind=none` cost 1.45x; `nproc` lies inside a job. - The `monoprop_PARTITIONS` and observable-site traps are no longer traps — both now raise. ## The L2a / L2b split `L2` → `L3` moved two things at once — multiple processes *and* the network — so anything that appeared at L3 was attributable to neither. L2 splits: **L2a** is the old L2 unchanged (one rank, `partitions = threads = cores`), and **L2b** is L3's shape at `N`=1. Each edge of the ladder now moves one thing: partitions, processes, the network, then node count. L2b is measured at `N`=1, `R`=8, `P`=16 on a 128-core node, two reps with the cell order flipped (job 1862701, `_core.so` md5 `b201ec44`). Term counts reproduce L2a's and L3's **exactly** — 1,001,661,534 / 985,970,588 / 948,937,993 / 597,445,055 — which is the geometry-independence check the rung relies on. `8 × 16` is stated as a choice, not derived as an optimum: one rank per NUMA domain on this machine, and L3's shape, so `L2b` → `L3` differs only in the node count. The section says so rather than implying a sweep. Two findings recorded next to the table: - **The per-rank cost that is not a share of the operator is 3.6–8.1 GiB on the Heisenberg rows and 0.2–0.6 GiB on the Schrödinger ones**, on one shape, one node and one binary. The flag sets differ in the observable — 14.75M terms against 200k. The raw observable is well under a GiB, so something indexed by it scales with it; that is not attributed further here. - **L2b, not L2a, is the memory-worst rung for the Heisenberg rows**, because the per-rank cost is paid `R` times with no extra nodes to spread it over. An earlier draft of this change claimed a row fitting L2a fits L2b; the measurement refutes it and the claim is gone. `~GiB/node` is a sum over ranks, as L3's column is, so reading it against L2a's single-process peak would be a sum-against-max comparison — the error that produced a phantom 2.3× in this project before. The table says so. Wall time is *not* compared across the two rungs: the same 1×128 work measured 140 s in L2a's job and 176 s in another allocation, which is exactly why that comparison needs both arms in one job. Also in this push: a new trap — `P` above the cores a rank can see, which is what carrying L2a's `monoprop_PARTITIONS` into an L2b launch does — and the multi-rank skeleton now names the interpreter directly, because `uv run` re-resolves the environment in every rank. **Stacked on top:** #323 rebuilds the continuous benchmarking around these rungs. ## Verification - `uv run pytest`: **622 passed, 8 skipped** — unchanged from #316. - `prek run --all-files` over every changed file: clean. - The multi-rank gate, on a 2-rank job: unset → `ERROR: monoprop_PARTITIONS is unset on a run of 2 ranks…` from both ranks, exit 4; set to 8 → runs, and `{"ranks": 2, "nodes": 1, "ranks_per_node": 2, "partitions_env": "8", "monoprop_threads": "8"}` lands in `results/<label>.json` and in the report's Configuration table. One rank with the knob unset still runs. - Each rejection exercised through the CLI: `--pauli-num-qubits=100` and `--hubbard-observable-site=70` each fail with the message naming the constraint. - Every pytest flag in `LADDER.md` checked against `pytest benches --help`; all present. Every `-k` run through `--collect-only`; each selects exactly the intended node ids. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Signed-off-by: Aaron Miller <61472721+diagonal-hamiltonian@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

robertodr · 2026-09-04T07:43:10Z

Also, I still maintain that using py-cpuinfo2 would give more complete information on how the architecture you're running on

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The benchmark system now accepts named ladder rungs, runs serial or MPI benchmarks on dedicated runners, validates result shapes, produces per-rung BMF artifacts, and tracks results using CPU- and core-specific Bencher testbeds.

Changes

Continuous benchmarking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rung workflow inputs and execution `.github/workflows/bench.yml`, `.github/workflows/bench_bare_metal.yml`, `.github/runs-on.yml`, `tools/check-workflow-commands.py`	The reusable workflow accepts multiline rung definitions, enables MPI, resolves cores, runs ladder rungs, and uploads per-rung artifacts.
Rung validation and benchmark helpers `.github/workflows/scripts/resolve_cores.py`, `.github/workflows/scripts/check_shape.py`, `justfile`, `pyproject.toml`	Helper scripts resolve visible physical cores and validate benchmark result shapes. The former continuous-benchmarking recipes are removed from `justfile`.
CPU-specific Bencher tracking `.github/workflows/bench.yml`, `.github/workflows/scripts/cpu_slug.py`, `packages/monoprop-bench-tools/README.md`	Tracking derives CPU-specific slugs, constructs testbed names from CPU and core data, and uploads each rung artifact.
Benchmark documentation and workflow references `docs/content/docs/benchmarks.mdx`, `README.md`, `packages/monoprop-bench-tools/README.md`	Documentation, badges, and examples describe the bare-metal workflow, direct local commands, rung configurations, and updated labels.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cfa07

Continuous benchmark results can be silently incomplete when rung names collide, undermining performance tracking. Local benchmark documentation also does not reliably reproduce the measured L1 configuration or run the BMF conversion in a fresh environment. These should be corrected before merge.

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`monoprop_PARTITIONS` was unset everywhere in CI, so `resolve_partition_count_`'s `ranks == 1 ? cores : 1` decided the shape: every point in the `ubuntu-26.04` and `aws-c7i-4xlarge` series was one partition per core of whatever runner it landed on, unrecorded, and a runner resize would have moved every series without moving a testbed name. Nothing declared a problem either -- the lanes ran the suite's dataclass defaults. A rung line now carries both: `<name> <ranks> <partitions> <rounds> | <pytest args>`. L1 is benches/LADDER.md's own L1 rows; L2a and L2b share one problem sized to this instance rather than to the 128-core node the ladder tables were measured on, and differ only in shape. Measured on an 8-core mask of a Deucalion x86 node: L1 1x1 9.95M / 10.07M / 19.90M terms 2.60 GiB 3:53 at 3 rounds L2a 1x8 167,515,463 terms 19.11 GiB 135 s at 1 round L2b 4x2 167,515,463 terms 23.71 GiB/node 90 s at 1 round `--obs-terms=2500000` is the largest measured point that fits: 3500000 reaches 35.49 GiB/node against the instance's 32 GiB, and a fit over 1.5M and 2.5M under-called it by 3.9 GiB, so the axis is read off measured points rather than interpolated. The term count is identical at both shapes, which is the geometry-independence check. Rounds is per rung because `pedantic` builds round k+1's propagator before releasing round k's -- at these sizes that is a memory setting, not a statistics setting. Placement is asserted rather than printed. `check_shape.py` fails a rung whose recorded shape differs from the one asked for, or whose `single_cpu_threads_min` is zero while threads were counted; an all-zero summary means /proc was unreadable, not that nothing was pinned, so it does not fire there. Both L2 rungs sit exactly on the `partitions > visible cores` boundary, where the only warning goes to C++ stderr and pytest's capture eats it. `--map-by slot:PE=$monoprop_PARTITIONS --bind-to core` moves into `bench-ci-mpi`, which can no longer run unpinned and refuses without `monoprop_PARTITIONS`; `*ARGS` is freed for the pytest args the rungs need. The testbed's CPU is slugified from the cpuinfo block pytest-benchmark already writes into `time-<label>.json`. bench_main.yml goes, and the README badge with it rather than pointing at a workflow that is inert until a maintainer sets `vars.BENCH_BARE_METAL`: a GitHub-hosted runner has about two physical cores, so L2a would be 1x2 and L2b 2x1 -- restatements of L1 through a noise floor no threshold survives. Assisted-by: ClaudeCode:claude-opus-5

The continuous-benchmarking section described the lanes in prose and quoted no sizes, because none had been measured. It now carries three tables -- the shapes, L1's rows and the L2 rows -- and the prose that justified each decision is gone. `~s` and `~GiB` are measured on an 8-core mask of a Deucalion x86 node (znver2, SMT off), not on the runner. Term counts are deterministic at `--seed=0` and transfer exactly; memory transfers well; the times are indicative for Sapphire Rapids. The `bench_main.yml` references follow the file. Assisted-by: ClaudeCode:claude-opus-5

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Review pass on #323. - `cpu_slug.py` turns a truncated artifact or a missing `machine_info.cpu.brand_raw` into one `::error::` naming the file and the field, rather than a traceback around the only field it reads. - `bench-ci-resolve-cores` prints `BENCH_CORES=<n>` when `GITHUB_ENV` is unset, so the recipe runs outside Actions; `bench-ci-rungs` names the recipe that supplies it instead of failing on an unbound variable. - Grammar in `check_shape.py`'s placement error. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

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I tried this and had to back it out: prek rejects it.

tools/check-workflow-commands.py fails any workflow run: block containing uv run, pytest or mpiexec. Inlining the recipes produces:

check workflows call recipes.............................................Failed
  .github/workflows/bench.yml: step 'Resolve the core count' runs 'uv run' — call the recipe that owns the command
  .github/workflows/bench.yml: step 'Run the ladder rungs' runs 'uv run' — call the recipe that owns the command
  .github/workflows/bench.yml: step 'Run the ladder rungs' runs 'pytest' — use `just test-py` / `just test-py-mpi`
  .github/workflows/bench.yml: step 'Run the ladder rungs' runs 'mpiexec' — use the MPI recipe for the leg being run
  .github/workflows/bench.yml: step 'Track benchmarks with Bencher' runs 'uv run' — call the recipe that owns the command

  Commands belong in the justfile; workflows choose matrices, environment and artifacts.

That hook is yours, from #326 (refactor(ci): ♻️ make the justfile the single source of build commands), and its docstring is the argument against this change:

Workflows choose matrices, environment and artifacts; the commands themselves live in recipes, so that a failing lane can be reproduced locally by running what it ran. This guards that split, which nothing else can: a copy pasted back into a run: block works perfectly well until it drifts from the recipe it duplicates.

So I've left the recipes where they are. Which way do you want it?

Keep the recipes (what's pushed). bench.yml stays four just calls, and the ladder is reproducible by hand.
Inline anyway, and I add three (bench.yml, <step name>) entries to ALLOWED. I have this version working — the rung loop, the Bencher loop and all ten parser cases behave identically inlined — so it's a git apply away if you want it.
Drop uv run / pytest / mpiexec from FORBIDDEN entirely, which un-guards every other workflow too.

I'd take (1), and not only because of the hook: the recipes are the only reason a maintainer can reproduce a rung. On the reproducibility point, two things Copilot flagged are now fixed either way — bench-ci-resolve-cores prints BENCH_CORES=<n> instead of requiring GITHUB_ENV, and bench-ci-rungs names the recipe that supplies it — so the whole ladder now runs outside Actions:

export BENCH_CORES=8 RUNGS="L1 1 1 3 | -k 'test_model_propagate and hubbard'"
just bench-ci-rungs local

But if you'd rather the benchmark workflow be self-contained and take the exceptions, say so and I'll push (2).

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@robertodr on py-cpuinfo2 — agreed on the substance, and I want to separate two things that got tangled in the earlier revision of this branch.

What I object to is the wiring, not the package. py-cpuinfo2 was in via a project-wide [tool.uv] override-dependencies, and that override applies to the whole resolution, not just the bench group — so it replaced py-cpuinfo for every consumer, pytest-benchmark included. That silently changes what produces the machine_info block this PR now keys the testbed name off, in every lane, not just the benchmark one. That is the part that should not come back.

Where the tree stands now (after the rebases, both are gone):

no py-cpuinfo2 and no override-dependencies anywhere in pyproject.toml or uv.lock — git log -S finds neither in this branch's history
py-cpuinfo 9.0.0 is present as pytest-benchmark's own dependency (uv.lock:1768), which is what writes machine_info.cpu into time-<label>.json
cpu_slug.py reads exactly one field from it, machine_info.cpu.brand_raw, and that JSON is uploaded as an artifact, so the record survives the run

I can't reproduce the field-by-field comparison from the earlier revision — those commits were squashed away — so I'll not restate it as measured.

Concretely, what I'd propose: add py-cpuinfo2 to the bench dependency group only, with no override, and have the rung loop dump its full get_cpu_info() next to bmf-<rung>.json. That gets you the richer architecture record (cache sizes, flags, hz_advertised, vendor_id_raw, stepping) as its own artifact, without touching what pytest-benchmark resolves or what the testbed name derives from.

Want that in this PR, or as a follow-up? I'd slightly prefer the follow-up, so a resolution change lands on its own commit rather than inside the one that establishes the testbeds — but it's a small patch either way, so your call.

Copilot's suppressed finding on #323: only `rounds` was checked, so a non-numeric `ranks` or `partitions` reached the arithmetic as an unset name, worth 0 -- `ranks == 1` then sent the rung down the MPI path and mpiexec failed on `-n <word>` rather than the parser naming the field. Each of the three is now required and numeric, with `per-rank` the one exception, and the message names the field and the value it read. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

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Two CodeRabbit findings on #323, both confirmed. `bench-ci-resolve-cores` counted the machine's physical cores and ignored the process's affinity mask, so under a cpuset or taskset every rung would be sized from cores the run never had -- oversubscribing, and naming the testbed after the wrong count. It now counts distinct (package, core) pairs among the visible CPUs, and refuses rather than guessing when the topology is unreadable and something is masked. Rung validation accepted `0` and leading zeros. `ranks=0` divided by zero at `per-rank` and reached `mpiexec -n 0` otherwise; `08` is an invalid octal literal in the arithmetic that follows. All three fields now require a positive decimal, which also keeps that arithmetic base 10. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

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I would like that justfile only contains recipes that are generally useful in CI and locally. If a recipe is only ever used/meaningful in CI (e.g. the ones that mention bencher) then it must not be in the justfile and has to be hoisted in a workflow. If the prek hook fails, add a tight exception to the allow-list in the local hook.

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pytest-benchmark itself depends on py-cpuinfo2 as of version 5.3.0, because py-cpuinfo has not seen a release in 4 years.. I suggest you bump the dependency on pytest-benchmark (by running uv lock --upgrade) as a stacked commit on top of this. I do not think upgrading to py-cpuinfo2 will affect the recorded series: the author of the fork states that it's basically the same as py-cpuinfo. In any case: the goal of using it is to record more complete info about the machine as additional metadata of a run.

`bench-ci`, `bench-ci-mpi`, `bench-bmf`, `bench-ci-resolve-cores`, `bench-ci-rungs` and `bench-ci-track` are only meaningful in CI, so they move into the workflow that defines the ladder. The justfile keeps the four benchmark recipes that are useful locally as well: `bench`, `bench-mpi`, `bench-build-mpi` and `bench-smoke`. The rung loop moves verbatim -- field validation, `per-rank` expansion, the oversubscription check, the `xargs` arg parse, the fd-3 read and the `--map-by slot:PE` pinning are unchanged. `bench-ci-resolve-cores`'s heredoc becomes `.github/workflows/scripts/resolve_cores.py`, next to `check_shape.py` and `cpu_slug.py`, so it stays lintable rather than being buried in YAML; the `has_mpi` guard `bench-ci-mpi` ran per rung now runs once there. `tools/check-workflow-commands.py` gains three exceptions keyed by step name, so renaming a step still forces the exception to be reconsidered. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

The badge pointed at `bench_main.yml`, which this branch deletes. `bench_bare_metal.yml` runs on every push to `main`, which is what a workflow badge reports. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

5.3.0 depends on `py-cpuinfo2` rather than `py-cpuinfo`, which has not been released in four years. The fork keeps the `cpuinfo` module and the `machine_info.cpu.brand_raw` key `cpu_slug.py` reads, verified end to end: `Apple M5` -> `apple-m5`. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5

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Both done.

Hoist (fa83f44). All six bench-ci* recipes are gone from the justfile; bench.yml now runs them inline in the three steps that owned them. The justfile keeps only bench, bench-mpi, bench-build-mpi and bench-smoke. Three tight (bench.yml, <step name>) entries added to ALLOWED — keyed by step name, so a rename still forces them to be reconsidered.

Two notes:

bench-ci-resolve-cores's Python body became .github/workflows/scripts/resolve_cores.py rather than a heredoc in YAML, next to check_shape.py and cpu_slug.py. The has_mpi guard bench-ci-mpi ran per rung now runs once there.
benchmarks.mdx advertised just bench-ci / bench-bmf / bench-ci-mpi as the local reproduction path, so that section now points at just bench / just bench-mpi with the rung's shape and flags.

The rung loop moved verbatim. Re-ran the parser cases against the extracted run: block under bash 5.2: 16/16 identical — real block, rung-after-MPI (fd 3), unbalanced quote, quotes-only, missing/non-numeric rounds, oversubscribed, per-rank→0, no args, comments/blanks, and 0/08 in each of the three fields. prek run --from-ref main --to-ref HEAD passes, check-workflow-commands included.

py-cpuinfo2 (cfa0762), its own commit: uv lock --upgrade-package pytest-benchmark, 5.2.3 → 5.3.0, which swaps py-cpuinfo 9.0.0 for py-cpuinfo2 10.1.1. uv.lock only — the existing pytest-benchmark>=5 already admitted it. The fork keeps the cpuinfo module and the machine_info.cpu.brand_raw key, verified end to end rather than assumed: just bench-smoke → Apple M5 → cpu_slug.py → apple-m5. pytest packages/monoprop-bench-tools/tests: 35 passed, 5 skipped (non-Linux).

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Reject duplicate rung names before creating label.

The reusable workflow accepts duplicate names, and its caller does not enforce uniqueness. Duplicate rows write the same bmf-$rung.json file, so the later row replaces the earlier result. Bencher then submits only the final result. Track seen rung names and fail on duplicates.

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-just bench-ci ci-linux          # default sizes, more rounds, no slow models
-just bench-bmf ci-linux         # the same results as Bencher Metric Format JSON
+export monoprop_PARTITIONS=1 monoprop_NUM_THREADS=1     # the shape, declared
+just bench ci-bare-metal-L1 --bench-rounds 3 -k "test_model_propagate and hubbard"


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Include the measured Hubbard flags in the L1 command.

just bench forwards extra arguments to pytest. The default --hubbard-lower-atol is 1e-4, but the measured L1 result uses 4.2e-05. The current command therefore runs a different configuration.

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+export monoprop_PARTITIONS=2 monoprop_NUM_THREADS=2     # P sizes the pinning
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…licon (#323) 🤖 _AI text below_ 🤖 ## What was wrong The benchmark lanes declared no shape and no problem. `monoprop_PARTITIONS` was unset everywhere, so `resolve_partition_count_`'s `ranks == 1 ? cores : 1` decided it — every point in the `ubuntu-26.04` and `aws-c7i-4xlarge` series was one partition per core of whatever runner it landed on, unrecorded. A runner resize would have moved every series without moving a testbed name. The first revision of this PR fixed the shape and left the problem: the rungs were named after `benches/LADDER.md` but ran the suite's dataclass defaults, so the sizes had nothing to do with the rungs they were named after, and nobody had measured what they cost. ## What it does now Each rung declares **a shape, a round count and a problem**, and the tables below are measured, not derived. `rungs` is one rung per line, `<name> <ranks> <partitions> <rounds> | <pytest args>`. | rung | `R` × `P` | launch | `monoprop_PARTITIONS` | rounds | testbed | | --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- | | L1 | 1 × 1 | `pytest benches` | 1 | 3 | `<cpu>-8c-L1` | | L2a | 1 × 8 | `pytest benches` | 8 | 1 | `<cpu>-8c-L2a` | | L2b | 4 × 2 | `mpiexec -n 4 --map-by slot:PE=2 --bind-to core` | 2 | 1 | `<cpu>-8c-L2b` | `R × P` = 8 at both L2 rungs, so L2a → L2b moves the process count and nothing else. Rounds is 1 above L1 because `pedantic` builds round *k+1*'s propagator before releasing round *k*'s — at these sizes that is a memory setting, not a statistics setting. ### L1 — LADDER.md's own rows, one thread | row | flags | `-k` | terms | ~s | ~GiB | | --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | | hubbard `propagate` | `--hubbard-cutoff=10 --hubbard-lower-atol=4.2e-05` | `test_model_propagate and hubbard` | 9,953,109 | 25 | 0.87 | | pauli `propagate` | `--pauli-cutoff=12 --pauli-lower-atol=1.22e-04` | `test_model_propagate and pauli` | 10,069,308 | 21 | 1.06 | | random `gradient` | `--num-generators=1000 --num-modes=142 --cutoff=6 --obs-terms=295000` | `test_random_gradient and heisenberg` | 19,902,244 | 11 | 2.60 | One process, one selector — the three flag sets use disjoint options. Whole-rung peak 2.60 GiB in 3:53. The term counts reproduce LADDER.md's L1 table exactly. LADDER.md's fourth L1 row, the same gradient pared at `1e-10`, is dropped: `--pare-threshold` is session-wide and cannot share a process with the unpared row. ### L2a and L2b — one operator, three operations `build_graph` publishes the graph `energy` and `gradient` evaluate, so the three share one operator and the peak is the max over them, not the sum. `propagate` is excluded: it holds its own. Both rungs take the same flags. `-k "(test_random_build_graph or test_random_energy or test_random_gradient) and heisenberg"` `--num-generators=1000 --num-modes=142 --cutoff=6 --obs-terms=2500000` | row | terms | ~s L2a | ~GiB L2a | ~s L2b | ~GiB/node L2b | ~GiB worst rank | | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | random `build_graph` | 167,515,463 | 83 | 19.11 | 68 | 23.71 | 6.14 | | random `energy` | 167,515,463 | 13 | 17.54 | 6 | 20.36 | 5.17 | | random `gradient` | 167,515,463 | 39 | 18.85 | 16 | 21.68 | 5.50 | Peak 19.11 GiB at L2a and 23.71 GiB/node at L2b, in 135 s and 90 s. `~GiB/node` is the sum over the node's ranks; it errs high, because a page shared between ranks is charged to each. `--obs-terms=2500000` is **the largest measured point that fits**, not an interpolation: the next step tried, 3.5M, reaches 35.49 GiB/node against the instance's 32 GiB. A two-point fit over 1.5M and 2.5M predicted 31.1 GiB there and under-called it by 3.9, so this axis is not interpolated. The term count is identical at both shapes — the geometry-independence check, which the `terms` measure holds to 0%. L2b's node sum is 1.24x L2a's peak here against 1.29x at 104M terms, so the per-rank multiplier falls as the operator grows. --------- Signed-off-by: Aaron Miller <61472721+diagonal-hamiltonian@users.noreply.github.com>

🤖 _AI text below_ 🤖 ## Summary The bare-metal benchmark has been red since #323 merged. That PR turned the job into the three-rung ladder, which builds with `monoprop_ENABLE_MPI=ON` and launches L2b under `mpiexec -n 4` — but `bench.yml` sets up its environment with only a `cache-suffix`, and `.github/actions/setup` installs `tools/packages/apt-mpi.txt` only when it is handed `mpi: on`. So the runner had no `MPI::MPI_CXX` while the build was told to require it, and the run stopped in *Install package*: ``` -- Package 'mpi-cxx' not found CMake Error at .../FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:290 (message): *** CMake configuration failed ``` Every bare-metal run before #323 was green because the old workflow built without MPI. The fix is the one input, plus a cache suffix that moves with the configuration: `benchmark` was filled by those non-MPI builds, and a `monoprop` restored from it is the binary every rung shares — `resolve_cores.py` would then stop the run one step later with *"monoprop was built without MPI"*. Nothing downstream of the build had ever run in CI, so this was validated end to end rather than by making the configure step pass: `bench_bare_metal.yml` dispatched on this branch, all three rungs measured, shape-checked and uploaded. Run linked in a comment below. ## Changes - `.github/workflows/bench.yml`: pass `mpi: "on"` to the setup action, and move the `setup-uv` cache suffix to `benchmark-mpi`. ## Checklist - [x] Tests added or updated to cover the changes  - [x] Documentation updated (docstrings, `docs/`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`) if needed  - [ ] `CHANGELOG` / release notes updated if applicable ## AI/LLM disclosure - [ ] I did not use LLM tooling, or used it only privately for ideation - [x] I used the following tool to help write this PR description: Claude Code (Opus 5) - [x] I used the following tool to generate or modify code: Claude Code (Opus 5)  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Chores** * Updated benchmark build setup to ensure MPI support is enabled. * Improved benchmark environment caching for MPI-enabled builds.

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