Previously each GPU was calibrated sequentially (one card fully done
before the next started), producing the staircase temperature pattern
seen on the graph.
Now all GPUs run together in a single dcgmi diag -r targeted_power
session per attempt. This means:
- All cards are under realistic thermal load at the same time.
- A single DCGM session handles the run — no resource-busy contention
from concurrent dcgmi processes.
- Binary search state (lo/hi) is tracked independently per GPU; each
card converges to its own highest stable power limit.
- Throttle counter polling covers all active GPUs in the shared ticker.
- Resource-busy exponential back-off is shared (one DCGM session).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Michael Chus
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