Add pixelization imaging profiling: A100 + RTX 2060 + CPU sweep

[Jammy2211]

Summary

Adds long-term tracking artifacts for the rectangular pixelization imaging likelihood under jax_profiling/results/jit/imaging/pixelization/ — six configs side-by-side (CPU/GPU × fp64/mp on consumer hardware + A100 fp64/mp). Generated by new tooling in z_projects/profiling/scripts/ (separate local-only commit, no PR target).

Likelihood: Sersic + Isothermal + ExternalShear lens with a RectangularAdaptDensity(28, 28) source mesh + Constant regularization. Mirrors the canonical reference at jax_profiling/jit/imaging/pixelization.py. Companion to the MGE sweep merged in #56 — same harness, different model, an extra three steps (Overlay grid, Regularization matrix H, Regularized reconstruction) on top of the MGE 8-step pipeline.

Headline numbers

Config	Full pipeline	vmap per call
hpc_a100_fp64	9.7 ms	12.3 ms
hpc_a100_mp	10.1 ms	12.4 ms
local_gpu_fp64 (RTX 2060)	212.2 ms	233.1 ms
local_gpu_mp	192.6 ms	212.1 ms
local_cpu_fp64	2379.5 ms	2157.6 ms
local_cpu_mp	1670.1 ms	1878.5 ms

Key findings

• A100 fp64 is 22× faster than RTX 2060 fp64 on the full single-JIT pipeline, and 245× faster than CPU. The production-vs-consumer gap is materially wider than for MGE (PR Add MGE imaging profiling: A100 + RTX 2060 + CPU sweep #56 measured 7.7× A100 vs RTX 2060). Pixelization's dense linear algebra benefits more from A100's tensor cores + memory bandwidth than MGE's smaller linear-LP solve does.
• Bottleneck shifts dramatically across device classes.
  • On CPU: Curvature matrix F (1317 ms) + Inversion setup (1228 ms) account for ~90% of step total.
  • On RTX 2060: F (102 ms / 48%), Inversion setup (63 ms / 30%), Reconstruction NNLS (60 ms / 28%) — three near-equal contributors.
  • On A100: F construction collapses to 0.53 ms (1/200th of CPU). NNLS reconstruction (6.8 ms) becomes ~70% of step total. Optimising NNLS is the next throughput lever for production hardware.
• Mixed precision is a no-op on GPUs (within noise: A100 mp is ~4% slower than fp64; RTX 2060 mp is ~10% faster). On CPU mp gives ~30% full-pipeline speedup, mostly from F construction (1317 → 875 ms). The use_mixed_precision flag remains a CPU lever, not a GPU one — same conclusion as MGE.
• vmap does not help pixelization (0.9–1.2× per call across every device class). Contrast with MGE which gets ~2× from vmap. Root cause is the inherently iterative NNLS solve in reconstruction_positive_only_from — it does not batch usefully. Batched pixelization evaluation needs a different reconstruction strategy.

Caveats

• A100 JIT log-evidence shows fp32-level truncation (26232.3516 vs eager numpy reference 26232.0686). Same root cause as PR Add MGE imaging profiling: A100 + RTX 2060 + CPU sweep #56: the HPC PyAutoNSS venv does not have jax_enable_x64=True. Doesn't affect timing data here, and the assertion uses rtol=1e-2 for mp paths to absorb this. Worth confirming before quoting A100-served log Z values to high precision.
• vmap regression vs single-JIT for pixelization is real, not measurement noise. It reproduces across all six configs and is consistent with NNLS being serial. The comparison.json headline section captures both numbers explicitly.
• Local sweep timings vary across sessions due to JAX cache state and GPU thermal state. Cross-platform comparisons (A100 vs RTX 2060 vs CPU) are robust; single-machine cross-session deltas are not.
• The chart (comparison.png) uses log scale on the y axis to make the A100 / RTX 2060 / CPU classes coexist legibly, since they span ~3 orders of magnitude.

Generated by

• z_projects/profiling/scripts/pixelization_profile.py — single-config 11-step JIT profiler (per-step timings + full pipeline + vmap + memory analysis). Argparse-driven, honours PYAUTO_ROOT for worktree-aware canonical writes.
• z_projects/profiling/scripts/pixelization_aggregate.py — --ingest-pre-fix /tmp (no-op unless artifacts present); --consolidate-from <staging> to move HPC pulls into this canonical dir; default to emit comparison.json + comparison.png.
• z_projects/profiling/scripts/_setup_pixelization.py — shared build_dataset / build_model / build_analysis so the canonical reference's EXPECTED_LOG_EVIDENCE_HST = 26232.068573757562 constant carries through asserted on every run.
• z_projects/profiling/hpc/batch_gpu/submit_pixelization_profile_{fp64,mp} — A100 SLURM submits.

The z_projects/profiling/ source side commits to its own (remote-less) main; only the result artifacts in this PR are version-tracked.

Test plan

• All 6 JSON files schema-valid (parsed cleanly by pixelization_aggregate.py)
• comparison.json + comparison.png regenerated end-to-end
• No untracked or modified files in jax_profiling/results/jit/imaging/ outside the new pixelization/ subdir
• Existing legacy per-version flat summary files (pixelization_likelihood_summary_hst_v*.{json,png}) untouched
• Eager log_evidence regression assertion: 26232.068574 matches EXPECTED_LOG_EVIDENCE_HST (rtol=1e-4)
• Full-pipeline JIT + vmap log_evidence assertions pass (rtol=1e-4 fp64, rtol=1e-2 mp)

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