chore(recipes): updating Nemotron 3.5 Lightning recipes.

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Overview:

Refreshing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning recipes with new results.
The main change is moving to BF16 weights for B200 and GB200, which is explained below.

Details:

• Moved B200 and GB200 to use the BF16 version for now, for better performance.
• Added more perf data.
• Corrected context size in docs.
• Added better instructions for EFA setup.
• Removed recipe redundancies and recipes not meeting the benchmark's SLAs.

Where should the reviewer start?

• Examine first the fern doc changes in docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/ by starting it locally and going through /dynamo/dev/recipes/nemotron-3-5-lightning.
• Check the README files: recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/README.md, recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/README.md and recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/trtllm/README.md.
• Check the performance results: recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/perf/README.md.
• Check the recipes in recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/.

BF16 fallback

Currently vLLM only support Marlin MoE backend to serve NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 (with W4A16) on SM100. Recent support was added in flashinfer in PR4048 for W4A16 in CuTeDLS, but while these changes improve results, they are still do not match the BF16 performance on our use-case (see the attached trace under traces/).

In the extreme case, when running on B200 with the recipe in recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/agg-b200-dspark-bf16/deploy.yaml, BF16 gets +80% over NVFP4 (with the same config) with Marlin dense + MoE, and +12% over NVFP4 with CuTeDSL dense + MoE.

Because of this, all SM100 recipes were moved to use the BF16 weights, and the performance results were updated.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added BF16 model support for B200 and GB200 hardware, alongside existing NVFP4 options for H100 and H200.
  • Added BF16 model-download workflow and hardware-specific deployment variants.
  • Expanded supported context length to 1M tokens.
  • Added AWS EFA setup and validation guidance for disaggregated deployments.

• Updates

  • Refreshed deployment recipes, benchmark results, configuration guidance, and performance tables.
  • Updated model-cache requirements and quick-start examples.
  • Removed superseded or unavailable deployment variants.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Nemotron-3.5-Lightning recipes now support NVFP4 on H100/H200 and BF16 on B200/GB200. Deployment manifests, model downloads, documentation, benchmarks, catalog entries, and EFA setup guidance were updated.

Nemotron recipe contracts and cache
docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/nemotron-3-5-lightning.mdx, recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/README.md, recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/model-cache/*, recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/perf/README.md|Documentation and benchmarks now distinguish hardware-specific precision variants. A BF16 model-download Job was added, and PVC storage was reduced to 140Gi.|
|vLLM deployment variants
recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/*|B200/GB200 manifests now use BF16 models and suffixed resources. Explicit FP4 quantization arguments were removed from applicable H100/H200 and BF16 deployments.|
|TensorRT-LLM BF16 deployments
recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/trtllm/*|B200 and GB200 deployments now use BF16 model identifiers, resource names, and ConfigMap references.|
|Catalog and EFA support
docs/fern/pages/recipes/_catalog/recipes/nemotron-3-5-lightning.yaml, docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/overview.mdx, recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/efa.md|Catalog entries and overview metadata now list the revised variants. EFA documentation now covers installation, validation, and Kubernetes worker wiring.|

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 91c08

This PR changes the supported checkpoint and recipe set for B200 and GB200 and adds EFA startup instructions, but the current revision still contains invalid default recipe/model references, an EFA wrapper that can stop workers before launch, and inconsistent speculative-decoding configuration. These issues can make documented deployments unusable or prevent workers from starting, so the PR is unsafe to merge until the affected recipes and instructions are corrected.

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recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/README.md (1)

77-102: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use an explicit valid BF16 recipe in the quick start.

For B200 and GB200, the generated path omits -bf16. kubectl apply and kubectl get dgd then use names that do not exist. The request body also always selects the NVFP4 model.

Set RECIPE, DGD, and the model name to one supported configuration.

Proposed fix

-GPU=h100        # h100, h200, b200, or gb200
-MODE=agg        # agg or disagg
-SPECDEC=dflash  # choose a valid speculative decoding mode from the table
+RECIPE=agg-b200-dspark-bf16
+DGD=vllm-agg-b200-dspark-bf16
+MODEL=nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

-kubectl apply -n "${NAMESPACE}" -f "${MODE}-${GPU}-${SPECDEC}/deploy.yaml"
-kubectl get dgd -n "${NAMESPACE}" "vllm-${MODE}-${GPU}-${SPECDEC}" -w
+kubectl apply -n "${NAMESPACE}" -f "${RECIPE}/deploy.yaml"
+kubectl get dgd -n "${NAMESPACE}" "${DGD}" -w

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In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/README.md` around lines 77 - 102, Update
the quick-start variables and commands to use an explicit supported BF16 recipe:
define RECIPE, derive or set DGD to the corresponding deployment name including
-bf16, and use DGD consistently in kubectl apply, kubectl get, and the frontend
service port-forward. Change the request model to the BF16 model supported by
that recipe instead of always selecting the NVFP4 model.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/fern/pages/recipes/_catalog/recipes/nemotron-3-5-lightning.yaml`:
- Around line 146-167: Remove kv-aware-routing from the techniques lists of the
single-GPU H200 entries vllm-agg-h200-dflash and vllm-agg-h200-mtp, and apply
the same correction to the corresponding H100 dflash and mtp entries; leave it
only on the multi-worker KV-router configuration.

In `@docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/nemotron-3-5-lightning.mdx`:
- Around line 37-42: Update the B200 and GB200 aggregate spec-decode summaries
to list only MTP and DSpark, removing DFlash from both entries. Keep the
surrounding checkpoint, precision, GPU, and runtime details unchanged.
- Line 337: Update the smoke-test curl examples associated with the B200 and
GB200 BF16 port-forward targets to request model
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 instead of the NVFP4 model;
keep the NVFP4 model ID for GPU families serving the NVFP4 checkpoint, and
separate the examples with data-sku sections if needed.

In `@docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/overview.mdx`:
- Line 113: Update the dynamo-model-summary paragraph to state that NVFP4
variants target H100/H200 and BF16 variants target B200/GB200, removing the
implication that both precisions apply to B200 and GB200.

In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/model-cache/model-download-bf16.yaml`:
- Around line 23-30: Update the model-download-bf16 container security context
to run as UID 0 by setting runAsUser: 0, while preserving the existing
privilege-escalation and capability restrictions.

In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/disagg-b200-dspark-bf16/deploy.yaml`:
- Around line 122-129: Restore the prefill worker’s speculative configuration to
match the decode worker’s SPECULATIVE_CONFIG and preserve the NIXL
cache-metadata contract documented in the README. Update the prefill worker
configuration near its vLLM arguments, using the decode worker’s existing
speculative settings as the source of truth.

In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/efa.md`:
- Around line 52-69: Make the fi_info validation pipeline non-fatal under set
-euo pipefail so SIGPIPE from head cannot prevent startup. Update the fi_info
invocation near the wrapper’s final exec to tolerate a non-zero pipeline status,
while preserving the diagnostic output and ensuring exec "$@" is always reached.

In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/README.md`:
- Line 37: Update the agg-b200-dspark-kv-router-bf16 table entry to align its
concurrency value with the documented 4x multiplier of the base value 50,
changing 192 to 200; keep the surrounding guidance unchanged.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@recipes/nemotron-3.5-lightning/vllm/README.md`:
- Around line 77-102: Update the quick-start variables and commands to use an
explicit supported BF16 recipe: define RECIPE, derive or set DGD to the
corresponding deployment name including -bf16, and use DGD consistently in
kubectl apply, kubectl get, and the frontend service port-forward. Change the
request model to the BF16 model supported by that recipe instead of always
selecting the NVFP4 model.

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