GATE CHECKPOINT: Phase 8 - Cluster Instrumentation

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Phase 8 Gate Checkpoint (HARD GATE)

Weeks 8-9 | Must pass before baseline collection begins

• All 4 CT clamps installed and reading correct idle power
• CPU governor locked to performance on all nodes
• distributed-llama loads and serves model across cluster
• Full measurement protocol dry run completed end-to-end
• epi-bench calculates EPI from dry run data
• Result JSON matches schema specification