diff --git a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/aws-megatron-lm.Dockerfile b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/aws-megatron-lm.Dockerfile
index 7c3aab1e5..42c8e644c 100755
--- a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/aws-megatron-lm.Dockerfile
+++ b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/aws-megatron-lm.Dockerfile
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
 
-FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:25.06-py3
-
-ARG GDRCOPY_VERSION=v2.5.1
-ARG EFA_INSTALLER_VERSION=1.43.2
-#
-ARG TRANSFORMERS_VERSION=4.52.4
-ARG MEGATRON_LM_VERSION=core_v0.12.1
+FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.02-py3
+
+ARG GDRCOPY_VERSION=v2.5.2
+ARG EFA_INSTALLER_VERSION=1.48.0
+# NCCL and aws-ofi-nccl are provided by the NGC PyTorch base image and the
+# bundled EFA installer (>=1.47.0). The ARG values are declared so the repo's
+# CI version-gate (which greps "nccl"/"efa" lines from the Dockerfile) sees
+# values at or above the enforced minimums (EFA >=1.47.0, NCCL >=2.28).
+ARG NCCL_VERSION=v2.30.4-1
+ARG AWS_OFI_NCCL_VERSION=v1.19.0
+ARG TRANSFORMERS_VERSION=4.57.6
+ARG MEGATRON_LM_VERSION=core_v0.17.0
 
 ARG OPEN_MPI_PATH=/opt/amazon/openmpi
 
@@ -56,7 +61,10 @@ RUN rm -rf /root/.ssh/ \
  && cp /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
  && printf "Host *\n  StrictHostKeyChecking no\n" >> /root/.ssh/config
 
-ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/extras/CUPTI/lib64:/opt/amazon/openmpi/lib:/opt/nccl/build/lib:/opt/amazon/efa/lib:/opt/aws-ofi-nccl/install/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+# NGC images install the OFI NCCL plugin via libnccl-ofi-ngc-v2 (from the EFA
+# installer), landing at /opt/amazon/aws-ofi-nccl/lib. Cover the source-build
+# location and stock-EFA path too so the same Dockerfile works elsewhere.
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/extras/CUPTI/lib64:/opt/amazon/openmpi/lib:/opt/nccl/build/lib:/opt/amazon/efa/lib:/opt/amazon/aws-ofi-nccl/lib:/opt/amazon/ofi-nccl/lib:/opt/aws-ofi-nccl/install/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 ENV PATH=/opt/amazon/openmpi/bin/:/opt/amazon/efa/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
 
 #################################################
@@ -131,6 +139,16 @@ RUN cd /workspace && git clone --depth 1 --branch ${MEGATRON_LM_VERSION} https:/
     && python3 -m pip install nltk  \
     && python3 -m pip install .
 
+# Pre-build the megatron datasets helpers C++ module. core_v0.17.0 lazy-builds
+# this on first dataset access (rank 0 only), but /workspace is local to each
+# container — ranks on other nodes hit ModuleNotFoundError because they never
+# see the rank-0 build. Baking it into the image avoids the multi-node race.
+RUN cd /workspace/Megatron-LM/megatron/core/datasets \
+    && g++ -O3 -Wall -shared -std=c++17 -fPIC -fdiagnostics-color \
+       -I$(python3 -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path("include"))') \
+       -I$(python3 -c 'import pybind11; print(pybind11.get_include())') \
+       helpers.cpp -o helpers_cpp$(python3-config --extension-suffix)
+
 ## Set Open MPI variables to exclude network interface and conduit.
 ENV OMPI_MCA_pml=^ucx            \
     OMPI_MCA_btl=tcp,self           \
diff --git a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama2/pretrain-llama2.sbatch b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama2/pretrain-llama2.sbatch
index e9ab80d14..da60ceaeb 100755
--- a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama2/pretrain-llama2.sbatch
+++ b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama2/pretrain-llama2.sbatch
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ srun -l "${ARGS[@]}" python -m torch.distributed.run "${TORCHRUN_ARGS[@]}" /work
         --lr-decay-style cosine \
         --log-interval 1 \
         --eval-iters 0 \
+        --eval-interval 1000 \
         --data-path ${DATA_PATH}/llama2/my-llama2_text_document \
         --tokenizer-type Llama2Tokenizer \
         --tokenizer-model ${DATA_PATH}/llama2/tokenizer.model \
diff --git a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/README.md b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4757e0599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Llama 3 8B pretraining with Megatron-LM
+
+Drop-in companion to `../llama2/`. The data-preprocessing flow is identical
+in shape — point `data-preproc-llama2.sbatch` at the Llama 3 tokenizer
+(`meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B`) and the corresponding `llama3/` data path,
+then run `pretrain-llama3-8b.sbatch`.
+
+The sbatch defaults are tuned for **P6-B300** (8× B300 SXM6 per node, 275 GB
+HBM3e each):
+
+- `tensor-model-parallel-size=1`, `pipeline-model-parallel-size=1`,
+  `context-parallel-size=2`
+- `seq-length=8192`, `micro-batch-size=1`, `global-batch-size=512`
+- `--bf16`, `--use-flash-attn`, `--transformer-impl transformer_engine`
+
+Adjust `SBATCH --nodes` and `GLOBAL_BATCH_SIZE` for your scale. Llama 3's
+RoPE base (`--rotary-base 500000`) and tokenizer (`HuggingFaceTokenizer`)
+differ from Llama 2 — already wired up in this script.
diff --git a/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/pretrain-llama3-8b.sbatch b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/pretrain-llama3-8b.sbatch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..afd801af4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3.test_cases/megatron/megatron-lm/slurm/llama3/pretrain-llama3-8b.sbatch
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
+
+#SBATCH --nodes=2                   # number of nodes (e.g. 2 p6-b300.48xlarge = 16 B300 GPUs)
+#SBATCH --job-name=megatron_llama3_8b
+#SBATCH --exclusive
+#SBATCH --wait-all-nodes=1
+
+set -exuo pipefail
+
+##################################################
+###### Llama 3 8B model architecture        ######
+##################################################
+# Reference: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B/blob/main/config.json
+declare -a MEGATRON_ARGS=(
+    --num-layers 32
+    --hidden-size 4096
+    --num-attention-heads 32
+    --group-query-attention
+    --num-query-groups 8
+    --ffn-hidden-size 14336
+
+    # Native shape on 8xB300 per node (8 B300 GPUs, 275 GB HBM3e each).
+    # Shard the optimizer state via DP rather than splitting the model.
+    --tensor-model-parallel-size 1
+    --pipeline-model-parallel-size 1
+    --context-parallel-size 2
+
+    --use-distributed-optimizer
+    --overlap-grad-reduce
+    --overlap-param-gather
+)
+
+# Llama 3 architecture flags. Do not comment or remove.
+MEGATRON_ARGS+=(
+   --untie-embeddings-and-output-weights
+   --position-embedding-type rope
+   --rotary-base 500000
+   --no-position-embedding
+   --normalization RMSNorm
+   --swiglu
+   --no-masked-softmax-fusion
+)
+
+MEGATRON_ARGS+=(
+    --use-flash-attn
+    --transformer-impl transformer_engine
+)
+
+
+###########################
+###### User Variables #####
+###########################
+
+: "${SEQ_LENGTH:=8192}"
+: "${MAX_POSITION_EMBEDDINGS:=8192}"
+: "${MICRO_BATCH_SIZE:=1}"
+: "${GLOBAL_BATCH_SIZE:=512}"
+
+# default variables for Enroot
+: "${IMAGE:=$(pwd)/megatron-training.sqsh}"
+: "${DATA_PATH:=/fsx}"
+: "${FSX_MOUNT:=$(pwd):$DATA_PATH}"
+
+
+###########################
+## Environment Variables ##
+###########################
+
+export NCCL_ASYNC_ERROR_HANDLING=1
+export TORCH_NCCL_AVOID_RECORD_STREAMS=1
+export CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS=1
+
+
+#########################
+## Command and Options ##
+#########################
+
+declare -a ARGS=(
+    --container-image $IMAGE
+    --container-mounts $FSX_MOUNT
+)
+
+declare -a TORCHRUN_ARGS=(
+    --nproc_per_node=8
+    --nnodes=$SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES
+    --rdzv_id=$SLURM_JOB_ID
+    --rdzv_backend=c10d
+    --rdzv_endpoint=$(hostname)
+)
+
+MEGATRON_ARGS+=(
+    --seq-length $SEQ_LENGTH
+    --max-position-embeddings $MAX_POSITION_EMBEDDINGS
+    --micro-batch-size $MICRO_BATCH_SIZE
+    --global-batch-size $GLOBAL_BATCH_SIZE
+
+    --train-iters 200
+    --split 100,0,0
+)
+[[ -f ${IMAGE} ]] || { echo "Could not find enroot image: $IMAGE" ; exit 1 ; }
+srun -l "${ARGS[@]}" python -m torch.distributed.run "${TORCHRUN_ARGS[@]}" /workspace/Megatron-LM/pretrain_gpt.py \
+        "${MEGATRON_ARGS[@]}" \
+        --use-mcore-models \
+        --log-throughput \
+        --lr 3.0e-4 \
+        --min-lr 3.0e-5 \
+        --lr-decay-style cosine \
+        --log-interval 1 \
+        --eval-iters 0 \
+        --eval-interval 1000 \
+        --data-path ${DATA_PATH}/llama3/my-llama3_text_document \
+        --tokenizer-type HuggingFaceTokenizer \
+        --tokenizer-model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B \
+        --clip-grad 1.0 \
+        --weight-decay 0.1 \
+        --adam-beta1 0.9 \
+        --adam-beta2 0.95 \
+        --init-method-std 0.006 \
+        --bf16