feat(recipes): add Solar Open2 250B NVFP4 aggregated and disaggregated recipes for B200

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Summary

Adds the aggregated two-replica KV-router recipe for Solar Open2 250B NVFP4 on B200, together with the model-cache PVC, the model download job, the benchmark job, and a frontend fix so the reasoning parser handles the special tokens this checkpoint emits.

The disaggregated recipe will be added to this pull request once it is finalized.

Measured performance

15% subset of the nim_turbo 8k/1k 70kv chat trace: 1805 requests, mean ISL 37.4k tokens, mean OSL 1008 tokens. All 1805 requests completed successfully.

Workload	Recipe	Framework	SKU	Concurrency	System output tok/s/GPU	User output tok/s (P50)	TTFT P50 (ms)
Chat (15% subset)	Aggregated, 2 replicas, KV-aware routing	vLLM	B200	20	214.98	52.16	319

Note for reviewers

imagePullSecrets: nvcr-secret is present because the container is currently in a private NGC registry. It should be removed once the image is published publicly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added experimental Solar Open2 250B NVFP4 deployment recipes for aggregated and disaggregated B200 serving.
  • Added model-cache setup and automated model download configuration.
  • Added performance profiling workflows for both deployment modes.
  • Added documentation covering setup, configuration, testing, performance, limitations, and API compatibility.
  • Added the Solar Open2 250B recipe to the Recipes navigation.

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Walkthrough

This change adds Solar Open2 250B NVFP4 documentation and navigation, shared model-cache resources, aggregated and disaggregated B200 deployments, and AIPerf benchmark jobs.

Changes

Solar Open2 250B recipe

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recipe documentation and catalog docs/fern/index.yml, docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/solar-open2-250b.mdx, recipes/README.md, recipes/solar-open2-250b/README.md	Adds recipe navigation, deployment documentation, recipe listings, licensing metadata, and a documentation link.
Shared model-cache preparation recipes/solar-open2-250b/model-cache/*	Adds a 1200Gi ReadWriteMany PVC and a restricted Kubernetes Job that downloads the model into the shared cache.
Aggregated and disaggregated serving recipes/solar-open2-250b/vllm/*/deploy.yaml	Adds aggregated vLLM workers and disaggregated prefill and decode workers with Solar-specific parsing, KV-cache configuration, GPU allocation, and NIXL/RDMA settings.
AIPerf benchmark execution recipes/solar-open2-250b/perf/*	Adds aggregated and disaggregated AIPerf configurations and Jobs that process Mooncake traces, run profiles, and store JSON artifacts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f280b

Deployments may fail to start or use incompatible GPUs, and benchmarks can terminate during endpoint startup. These issues should be corrected before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description provides relevant implementation details and benchmark results, but it does not follow the required template. It omits the Overview, Details, Where should the reviewer start?, and requ…	Add the required template sections. Include an overview, detailed change description, reviewer starting points with specific files, and the Related Issues section with either a valid issue reference or confirmation that no related issue exi…

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Solar Open2 250B NVFP4 aggregated and disaggregated B200 recipes, which matches the primary changes in the pull request.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Add the required template sections. Include an overview, detailed change description, reviewer starting points with specific files, and the Related Issues section with either a valid issue reference or confirmation that no related issue exists.

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Inline comments:
In `@recipes/README.md`:
- Around line 100-101: Update the descriptions for the Solar-Open2-250B-NVFP4
vLLM recipes to state that registry credentials or a pull secret are required,
removing the inaccurate “Requires custom container build” note and preserving
the existing hardware and deployment details.

In `@recipes/solar-open2-250b/perf/perf.yaml`:
- Around line 72-81: Ensure both Solar benchmark Jobs wait for the serving
endpoint before invoking aiperf profile: enable wait_for_model_timeout in both
benchmark ConfigMaps or reuse the established /v1/models readiness loop before
each invocation. Preserve the existing benchmark command and configuration
otherwise.

In `@recipes/solar-open2-250b/README.md`:
- Around line 8-9: Update the documentation URL in the recipe README to use the
repository’s valid documentation source link instead of the `/latest` URL, while
preserving the existing Solar Open2 250B recipe destination.

In `@recipes/solar-open2-250b/vllm/agg-b200-chat/deploy.yaml`:
- Line 88: Add the B200-specific node selector under the pod template spec for
every serving worker: the aggregated worker and the prefill and decode workers.
Ensure all three deployments require B200-labeled nodes in addition to their
existing GPU resource requests.
- Line 45: Provide registry authentication for every pod template in the
deployment that uses the private nvcr.io/nvstaging image, covering the
aggregated and disaggregated templates identified by their spec sections. Add
the environment-configured imagePullSecrets entry to each template, or
explicitly configure documented service-account inheritance, without hardcoding
an undefined secret name.

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• docs/fern/index.yml
• docs/fern/pages/recipes/model-recipes/solar-open2-250b.mdx
• recipes/README.md
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/README.md
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/model-cache/model-cache.yaml
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/model-cache/model-download.yaml
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/perf/perf-disagg.yaml
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/perf/perf.yaml
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/vllm/agg-b200-chat/deploy.yaml
• recipes/solar-open2-250b/vllm/disagg-b200-chat/deploy.yaml

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[ynpandey-nv]

A few items to fix before a performance-codeowners approval:

1. Pin the download Job to the same snapshot the workers load. Workers use snapshots/3cc673335f4c2f41181e05a98fc2b8324d586a64 with HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1, but model-download.yaml runs unpinned hf download $MODEL_NAME. When Hub HEAD moves, the Job succeeds and the workers fail.

2. One published numbers table. The PR body (agg 214.98 / 52.16 / 319) does not match the docs (216.88 / 52.02 / 308). Disagg (206.20 / 51.69 / 2277 ms at c=44) is only in the docs. Pick one source of truth and put both rows in the PR summary.

3. Wait for /v1/models in both perf Jobs before aiperf profile. They currently start immediately with backoffLimit: 0, so a Job submitted before the DGD is ready dies instead of reproducing the published run.

Reminder: switch the runtime image from the personal nvstaging/nim/snarravula tag to the NGC-published Dynamo image path before merge.

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Conditionally approved. Please address review comments. Thanks.

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/ok to test 96603cf

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/ok to test 8b56d9e

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/ok to test 7ec6d26