Add gaudi support to MCV

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Add Intel Gaudi (Habana) accelerator support to MCV, enabling creation, extraction, and preflight validation of Habana Synapse recipe cache images.

Gaudi uses a recipe cache (PT_HPU_RECIPE_CACHE_CONFIG) to persist compiled graph recipes across process restarts, reducing vLLM warmup time by ~38% for BF16 workloads. This PR adds MCV support for capturing that cache as an OCI image and extracting it on target nodes, following the same create/extract/preflight pattern used for Triton and vLLM caches.

Changes

• pkg/constants/constants.go — Add Habana cache type, directory paths, env var, and manifest directory constants
• pkg/cache/habana.go — Implement Habana cache backend: recipe file detection via regex, cache directory scanning, summary building with device fingerprint and Synapse version metadata
• pkg/cache/habana_test.go — Unit tests for regex matching, detection, and summary building
• pkg/cache/cache.go — Wire Habana into DetectCaches(), GetTagsFromCaches(), and ExtractCacheDirectory()
• pkg/preflightcheck/utils.go — Add Habana cases to CompareCacheSummaryLabelToGPU(), DetectCacheTypeFromLabels(), and CompareCacheManifestToGPU() with HPU backend-only matching
• pkg/fetcher/imgfetcher.go — Add Habana case to validateExtractedCacheSize() and default extract directory switch

Test plan

• Unit tests pass for recipe file regex, cache detection, and summary generation
• End-to-end validated on 8x Gaudi 3 (HL-325L): MCV create → OCI push → MCV extract → vLLM startup with recipe cache replay confirmed working

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for detecting and reporting Intel Gaudi accelerators.
  • Added Gaudi device information, architecture mapping, and GPU validation metadata.
  • Added a development build target for creating the Gaudi container image.
  • Gaudi containers now run with a non-root application user.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of incomplete, malformed, or unavailable Gaudi hardware information.

Walkthrough

The change adds Gaudi container support and hl-smi-based accelerator detection. It adds non-root execution to existing images, registers the new GAUDI device type, parses Gaudi hardware data, exposes device metadata, and restores cached Gaudi devices.

Changes

Gaudi accelerator support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gaudi runtime image and non-root execution mcv/Makefile, mcv/images/Containerfile	The Make target builds the amd64 mcv-gaudi image when Docker or Podman is available. The Containerfile adds Habana tooling, entrypoint setup, amd64 validation, and non-root execution for Gaudi, minimal, NVIDIA, and unified images.
Gaudi detection and device implementation mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/device.go, mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi.go, mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi_test.go	The accelerator package adds the GAUDI type. It executes hl-smi with a timeout, parses CSV output, maps products to architectures, creates Triton metadata, and exposes device summaries. Tests cover parsing, units, malformed records, and product mappings.
Device registration and cache restoration mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/device.go	Startup detection registers Gaudi devices. Cached Gaudi devices are restored as gpuGaudi instances.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to e88ea

The PR adds Gaudi support and downloads and runs a Habana installer during image builds, but the installer is not integrity-verified, failures may be hidden, and build checks currently report a code-quality failure. Images could therefore be compromised or incomplete, so merge should be blocked until these issues are fixed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Startup
  participant gaudiCheck
  participant hl-smi
  participant gpuGaudi
  Startup->>gaudiCheck: Register Gaudi detection
  gaudiCheck->>hl-smi: Query CSV device data
  hl-smi-->>gaudiCheck: Return hardware records
  gaudiCheck->>gpuGaudi: Build device metadata and summaries
  gpuGaudi-->>Startup: Expose registered devices

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Inline comments:
In `@mcv/images/Containerfile`:
- Around line 186-188: Update the installer flow around
/tmp/habanalabs-installer.sh to verify the downloaded Habana installer against a
vendor-provided checksum or signature tied to HABANA_VERSION before making it
executable or invoking its install command; abort the build when verification
fails, while preserving the existing installation behavior after successful
validation.
- Around line 186-190: Update the HABANA installer command in the Containerfile
so its exit status is preserved: write installer output to a temporary file,
execute and validate the installer directly, then print the final five log lines
only after successful completion. Keep cleanup behavior intact and ensure
installer failure causes the image layer to fail.

In `@mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi.go`:
- Around line 24-30: Replace the repeated "HL-325L" literal with a package-level
product constant, using it as the productToArch key in
mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi.go (lines 24-30), in the direct parser
assertion in mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi_test.go (lines 27-32), and in the
architecture mapping test table in mcv/pkg/accelerator/devices/gaudi_test.go
(lines 147-155).

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