Rename legacy Jenkins CI label from linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu to 4-gpu

[anishesg]

Fixes #3780

The Jenkins CI label linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu in .jenkins/metadata.json is a legacy name that doesn't describe the actual hardware used — it simply means "needs multi-GPU". This caused confusion when debugging CI for new tutorials because the label implied specific hardware that wasn't involved.

This change renames all four occurrences of linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu to 4-gpu in .jenkins/metadata.json, and updates the hard-coded equality check in .jenkins/get_files_to_run.py (line 44) to match the new label name. The routing logic and shard assignment behavior are unchanged; only the label name is updated to accurately reflect its semantic meaning.

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Summary

This is a clean, focused rename of the legacy linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu label to 4-gpu in two files. The change is correct and complete.

Correctness

All references updated consistently. The old label linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu appeared in exactly 5 places across 2 files, and all 5 are updated:

• .jenkins/metadata.json: 4 tutorial entries (lines 24, 27, 30, 78) — updated
• .jenkins/get_files_to_run.py: 1 equality check (line 44) — updated

I confirmed there are zero remaining references to linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu anywhere in the repository.

Observations

1. Routing logic is preserved. The calculate_shards function in get_files_to_run.py:43-44 filters files by the needs label and routes multi-GPU tutorials to shard 0. Since both the metadata values and the filter string are updated in lockstep, the behavior is identical.

2. The linux.g5.4xlarge.nvidia.gpu label remains unchanged. This is used for A10G machine routing (line 47) and was not part of the scope. That's correct — the issue only concerns the multi-GPU label.

3. CI is passing. All 4 workflow runs (Build tutorials, Lintrunner, link check, redirect check) completed successfully.

Suggestion

One minor observation — the new label 4-gpu is a semantic improvement, but it introduces an implicit assumption about the exact GPU count. If the multi-GPU shard's hardware changes in the future (e.g., to 8 GPUs), the label would need updating again. A more future-proof alternative might be multi-gpu, which matches the variable name needs_multigpu already used at get_files_to_run.py:43 and the comment at line 50 ("the only job that has multigpu"). This would make the label self-documenting without embedding a specific count.

That said, if 4-gpu is the naming convention adopted by the broader PyTorch CI infrastructure, then consistency with that convention is more important than the naming concern above.

Verdict

The change is correct and safe to merge as-is. The only suggestion is cosmetic (consider multi-gpu over 4-gpu for alignment with existing variable names and comments), but this is non-blocking.

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[georgehong]

I think the Claude suggestion of multi-gpu or something along those lines also makes sense to me, since it looks like the original motivation is that the previous name is too hardware specific. Also cc. @malfet since I see a question on the associated issue: #3780

[anishesg]

Renamed the label to multi-gpu per the suggestion — makes more sense as a semantic descriptor rather than tying it to a specific GPU count. Thanks for the feedback!

[malfet]

PR description is very confusing, not sure why linux.16xlarge.nvidia.gpu is called Rename legacy Jenkins CI label from, because this label never existed on Jenkins, but still exists on GitHub