Explorer - CI is timing out and hanging

[vprajapati-tt]

• Unsure of why exactly this is happening. When running locally, I noticed that it would open a webpage and restart the server for every testcase. This may potentially be the cause (it's also just inefficient)
• Need to do more investigation into the fixture itself and how the server is hoisting itself (/ keeping itself alive).

[vprajapati-tt]

Specific Runs:

• https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-mlir/actions/runs/12167197871/job/33935198039
• https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-mlir/actions/runs/12167197871/job/33943714464

[odjuricicTT]

When running locally, I noticed that it would open a webpage and restart the server for every testcase. This may potentially be the cause (it's also just inefficient)

You are right, we use model_explorer.visualize, which does try to open the browser. We should switch to visualize_with_config here as well. On the other hand we need to restart the server for every test in order to make sure that if one test fails in a way that crashes the server the others are not affected. I think that it is efficient enough for now, if it starts taking too long we can discuss other solutions.

[vprajapati-tt]

• Not due to explorer CI faults. Issues with metal uplift, nice that we were able to catch this.