feat: add Qwen3-8B pre-training sample (H200 vs B300, NeMo/Megatron)

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/build.sh

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 #!/bin/bash
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
 
 # Build the AWS-optimized NeMo container for P4 and P5 instances
 # This script builds the Docker image with EFA support optimizations

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/custom_data_module.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 import json
 import shutil
 import numpy as np

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/data-processing/data-processing.sh

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 #!/bin/bash
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
 
 # Deploy NeMo Data Processing Pod
 # This script helps deploy and manage the data processing pod

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/data-processing/load_dataset.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 from datasets import load_dataset
 import json
 import os

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/finetune_custom_dataset.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 import nemo_run as run
 import json
 import argparse

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/finetune_default_dataset.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 import signal
 import nemo_run as run
 import json

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/pretrain_custom_dataset.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 import signal
 import nemo_run as run
 import json

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/pretrain_mock_dataset.py

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+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
 import signal
 import nemo_run as run
 import json

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/kubernetes/push.sh

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 #!/bin/bash
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
 
 # Push the AWS-optimized NeMo container to Amazon ECR
 # This script creates the ECR repository, logs in, tags, and pushes the image

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/Dockerfile

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+FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.04
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 \
+    ethtool iproute2 pciutils curl \
+    && cd /tmp \
+    && curl -O https://efa-installer.amazonaws.com/aws-efa-installer-1.47.0.tar.gz \
+    && tar -xf aws-efa-installer-1.47.0.tar.gz \
+    && cd aws-efa-installer \
+    && ./efa_installer.sh -y --skip-kmod --skip-limit-conf --no-verify \
+    && cd /tmp \
+    && git clone -b v2.5.1 --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git \
+    && cd gdrcopy && make -j$(nproc) lib lib_install \
+    && cd / && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Environment
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib:/opt/amazon/efa/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+ENV NCCL_TUNER_PLUGIN="/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib/libnccl-tuner-aws-ofi.so"
+ENV FI_PROVIDER=efa
+ENV TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
+ENV NCCL_PROTO=simple
+
+WORKDIR /workspace

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/README.md

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+# Qwen3-8B Pre-Training: H200 vs B300 (NeMo/Megatron)
+
+Pre-training **Qwen3-8B** (8.2B dense parameters) on 1T tokens comparing two GPU generations — p5en.48xlarge (H200) and p6-b300.48xlarge (B300) — using NeMo/Megatron on 2-node / 16-GPU topologies with EFA GDRDMA interconnect.
+
+## Results
+
+| Metric | H200 (p5en) | B300 (p6-b300) | Ratio |
+|--------|-------------|----------------|-------|
+| **TFLOP/s per GPU** | 497 | **976** | 1.96× |
+| **Throughput** | 162K tok/s | **318K tok/s** | 1.96× |
+| **Time to 1T tokens** | ~71 days | **~36 days** | 1.97× |
+| Step time (100 iters) | 3.23s | 1.65s | 1.96× |
+| Peak memory/GPU | ~114 GB / 141 GB | ~173 GB / 288 GB | — |
+| MFU | 0.50 | 0.50 | — |
+
+Both clusters are compute-saturated with perfect communication overlap. AllReduce and AllGather are fully hidden behind compute.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- **Slurm** workload manager with **PyXis + Enroot** container runtime
+- **EFA networking** with GDRDMA support (for multi-node communication)
+- **FSx for Lustre** shared filesystem mounted at `/fsx/`
+- **Docker** (for building container images)
+
+> **Don't have a cluster?** Deploy a fully functional HPC cluster in under 1 hour using [Amazon SageMaker HyperPod](https://awslabs.github.io/ai-on-sagemaker-hyperpod/). The guide walks you through deploying a ready-to-use cluster with Slurm, EFA, PyXis/Enroot, and FSx for Lustre pre-configured.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+> **Disk space:** The container build requires ~50 GB of disk space in TMPDIR.
+> `enroot import` needs `sudo` and TMPDIR pointing to FSx or another file system (not `/tmp`, which is too small).
+
+### Clone this repo and change it its directory
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/awslabs/awsome-distributed-ai.git
+cd awsome-distribued-ai
+```
+
+### Prepare datasets (allenai/c4/en)
+```bash
+# export your Hugging Face token, if you have one
+export HF_TOKEN=<your token>
+
+# Prepare the dataset
+sbatch preprocessing/preprocess.sh
+```
+Without your Hugging Face token, the download will be throttled. The script requires a token. 
+Datasets are tokenized and transformed into binary mmap accessible files to avoid streaming data (`.idx` and `.bin` files).
+
+### Build the container
+```bash
+# Build container
+docker build -t qwen3-8b-pretraining:latest .
+
+# Setup directories to run
+mkdir -p /fsx/tmp && mkdir -p /fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/containers/
+
+# Create the squash file with Enroot
+sudo TMPDIR=/fsx/tmp ENROOT_TEMP_PATH=/fsx/tmp enroot import --output /fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/containers/nemo-efa-26.04.sqsh dockerd://qwen3-8b-pretraining:latest
+```
+
+### H200 Cluster (2x p5en.48xlarge)
+
+```bash
+# 1. Change to directory
+cd h200
+
+# 2. Submit training job
+sbatch slurm/run.sh
+```
+Logs will be written to `/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs`.
+Checkpoints are saved to `/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/checkpoints`.
+
+### B300 Cluster (2x p6-b300.48xlarge)
+
+```bash
+# 1. Change to directory
+cd b300
+
+# 2. Submit training job
+sbatch slurm/run.sh
+```
+Logs will be written to `/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs`.
+Checkpoints are saved to `/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/checkpoints`.
+
+## Model Architecture: Qwen3-8B
+
+| Parameter | Value |
+|-----------|-------|
+| Layers | 36 |
+| Hidden dim (d_model) | 4096 |
+| Q-heads | 32 |
+| KV-heads | 8 (GQA) |
+| FFN dim | 12288 (SwiGLU) |
+| Vocab size | 151,936 |
+| Positional encoding | RoPE |
+| Normalization | RMSNorm |
+| Sequence length | 4096 |
+| Precision | BF16 |
+| Total params | 8.2B |
+
+## Parallelism Strategy
+
+**Pure Data Parallelism (DP=16)** — the model fits entirely on a single GPU.
+
+| Component | Setting |
+|-----------|---------|
+| Tensor Parallel | 1 |
+| Pipeline Parallel | 1 |
+| Data Parallel | 16 |
+| Distributed Optimizer | Yes (shards Adam states across DP ranks) |
+| Overlap Grad Reduce | Yes |
+| Overlap Param Gather | Yes |
+
+**Why TP=1 is optimal:** At 8.2B params, the model + optimizer states fit on one GPU with distributed optimizer. Adding tensor parallelism introduces all-reduce communication for every transformer layer — validated experimentally: TP=2 was 11% slower (868 vs 976 TFLOP/s on B300).
+
+## Best Configuration Per Cluster
+
+| Parameter | H200 (p5en.48xlarge) | B300 (p6-b300.48xlarge) |
+|-----------|---------------------|------------------------|
+| GPUs | 16× H200 (141 GB HBM3) | 16× B300 (288 GB HBM3e) |
+| Parallelism | TP=1, PP=1, DP=16 | TP=1, PP=1, DP=16 |
+| **Micro-batch size** | **2** | **4** |
+| Global batch size | 128 (grad_accum=4) | 128 (grad_accum=2) |
+| Sequence length | 4096 | 4096 |
+| Precision | BF16 | BF16 |
+| **Gradient checkpointing** | Selective (core_attn only) | Selective (core_attn only) | 
+| Distributed optimizer | Yes (sharded Adam) | Yes (sharded Adam) |
+| Overlap grad reduce | Yes | Yes |
+| Overlap param gather| Yes | Yes |
+| Framework | Megatron-Bridge (NeMo 26.04) | Megatron-Bridge (NeMo 26.04) |
+
+## Key Findings
+
+1. **Both clusters are compute-saturated with perfect communication overlap.** AllReduce and AllGather are fully hidden behind compute — verified by single-GPU benchmarks showing lower TFLOP/s due to reduced batch arithmetic intensity.
+
+2. **Both clusters use the Megatron-Bridge recipe API.** NeMo 26.04 for both H200 and B300.
+
+3. **Pure data parallelism is optimal** when the model fits in single-GPU memory. Distributed optimizer + overlapped grad reduce eliminate the memory penalty.
+
+4. **Selective gradient checkpointing used on both clusters:** lightweight core_attn recompute is Megatron-Core's standard behavior, keeping H200 peak at ~114 GB (MBS=2) and B300 at ~173 GB (MBS=4).
+
+## Hardware
+
+| | H200 Cluster | B300 Cluster |
+|---|---|---|
+| Instance | p5en.48xlarge | p6-b300.48xlarge |
+| Nodes | 2 | 2 |
+| GPUs per node | 8× H200 | 8× B300 |
+| GPU Memory | 141 GB HBM3 | 288 GB HBM3e |
+| Interconnect | EFA GDRDMA (3200 Gbps) | EFA GDRDMA (6400 Gbps) |
+| Intra-node | NVLink (900 GB/s) | NVLink (1800 GB/s) |
+
+## Project Structure
+
+```
+├── README.md              ← You are here
+│   Dockerfile             ← NeMo 26.04 + EFA container
+├── h200/
+│   ├── train.py           ← Megatron-Bridge training script
+│   └── slurm/
+│       └── run.sh         ← Slurm submission script
+└── b300/
+    ├── train.py           ← Megatron-Bridge training script
+    └── slurm/
+        └── run.sh         ← Slurm submission script
+```
+
+## License
+
+MIT-0

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/b300/slurm/run.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+#SBATCH --job-name=qwen3-8b-b300
+#SBATCH --nodes=2
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=8
+#SBATCH --gpus-per-node=8
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=12
+#SBATCH --exclusive
+#SBATCH --output=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs/%j.out
+#SBATCH --error=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs/%j.err
+
+# EFA / NCCL environment
+export FI_PROVIDER=efa
+export NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=^docker,lo,veth
+export NCCL_DEBUG=WARN
+export NCCL_TUNER_PLUGIN=/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib/libnccl-tuner-aws-ofi.so
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib:/opt/amazon/efa/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+export TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
+export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF="expandable_segments:True"
+
+# Launch - Megatron uses SLURM env vars (SLURM_PROCID, SLURM_LOCALID) for distributed init
+/opt/slurm/bin/srun --mpi=pmix --container-image=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/containers/nemo-efa-26.04.sqsh --container-mounts=/fsx:/fsx,/opt/slurm:/opt/slurm --container-env=FI_PROVIDER,NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME,NCCL_DEBUG,NCCL_TUNER_PLUGIN,LD_LIBRARY_PATH,TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE python /fsx/ubuntu/awsome-distributed-ai/3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/h200/train.py

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/b300/train.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+"""Qwen3-8B Pre-Training on B300 — Megatron-Bridge (NeMo 26.02)
+
+Uses the Megatron-Bridge recipe API with config objects.
+No gradient checkpointing needed (288 GB B300 memory).
+
+Best config: TP=1, PP=1, DP=16, MBS=4, GBS=128, seq=4096, BF16
+Result: 976 TFLOP/s/GPU, 318K tok/s on 16x B300
+"""
+import os
+
+os.environ.setdefault("TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE", "1")
+
+from megatron.bridge.recipes.qwen.qwen3 import qwen3_8b_pretrain_config
+from megatron.bridge.training.gpt_step import forward_step
+from megatron.bridge.training.pretrain import pretrain
+
+
+def main():
+    cfg = qwen3_8b_pretrain_config(
+        mock=True,
+        tensor_model_parallel_size=1,
+        pipeline_model_parallel_size=1,
+        micro_batch_size=4,
+        global_batch_size=128,
+        seq_length=4096,
+        train_iters=100,
+        lr_warmup_iters=10,
+        lr_decay_iters=100,
+    )
+
+    # No gradient checkpointing (B300 has 288 GB - fits MBS=4 without recompute)
+
+    # Optimizer
+    cfg.optimizer.lr = 3e-4
+    cfg.optimizer.min_lr = 3e-5
+    cfg.optimizer.weight_decay = 0.1
+    cfg.optimizer.adam_beta1 = 0.9
+    cfg.optimizer.adam_beta2 = 0.95
+    cfg.optimizer.clip_grad = 1.0
+
+    # Logging and checkpoints
+    cfg.logger.log_interval = 5
+    cfg.train.eval_interval = 1000
+    cfg.train.eval_iters = 0
+    cfg.train.dir = "/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b/checkpoints/b300"
+    cfg.train.save_interval = 1000
+
+    pretrain(config=cfg, forward_step_func=forward_step)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/h200/slurm/run.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+#SBATCH --job-name=qwen3-8b-h200
+#SBATCH --nodes=2
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=8
+#SBATCH --gpus-per-node=8
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=12
+#SBATCH --exclusive
+#SBATCH --output=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs/%j.out
+#SBATCH --error=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/logs/%j.err
+
+# EFA / NCCL environment
+export FI_PROVIDER=efa
+export NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=^docker,lo,veth
+export NCCL_DEBUG=WARN
+export NCCL_TUNER_PLUGIN=/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib/libnccl-tuner-aws-ofi.so
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib:/opt/amazon/efa/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+export TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
+export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF="expandable_segments:True"
+
+# Launch - Megatron uses SLURM env vars (SLURM_PROCID, SLURM_LOCALID) for distributed init
+/opt/slurm/bin/srun --mpi=pmix --container-image=/fsx/ubuntu/qwen3-8b-pretraining/containers/nemo-efa-26.04.sqsh --container-mounts=/fsx:/fsx,/opt/slurm:/opt/slurm --container-env=FI_PROVIDER,NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME,NCCL_DEBUG,NCCL_TUNER_PLUGIN,LD_LIBRARY_PATH,TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE python /fsx/ubuntu/awsome-distributed-ai/3.test_cases/megatron/nemo/qwen3-8b-pretraining/h200/train.py