Overview

Add Polkadot SDK-style hardware benchmark checks to midnight-node startup.

The node now measures hardware on startup, logs the results, warns when authority hardware is below the reference requirements, forwards the data to telemetry, and supports --no-hardware-benchmarks to disable the check.

2026-04-23 14:58:42.590  INFO            main sc_sysinfo: 🏁 CPU single core score: 957.00 MiBs, parallelism score: 751.61 MiBs with expected cores: 8    
2026-04-23 14:58:42.590  INFO            main sc_sysinfo: 🏁 Memory score: 40.81 GiBs    
2026-04-23 14:58:42.590  INFO            main sc_sysinfo: 🏁 Disk score (seq. writes): 2.88 GiBs    
2026-04-23 14:58:42.590  INFO            main sc_sysinfo: 🏁 Disk score (rand. writes): 405.20 MiBs    
2026-04-23 14:58:42.590  WARN            main midnight_node::service: ⚠️  The hardware does not meet the minimal requirements Failed checks: BLAKE2-256(expected: 1000.00 MiBs, found: 957.00 MiBs), Rnd Write(expected: 420.00 MiBs, found: 405.20 MiBs),  for role 'Authority'.    

📌 Submission Checklist

• Changes are backward-compatible (or flagged if breaking)
• Pull request description explains why the change is needed
• Self-reviewed the diff
• I have included a change file, or skipped for this reason:
• If the changes introduce a new feature, I have bumped the node minor version
• Update documentation (if relevant)
• Updated AGENTS.md if build commands, architecture, or workflows changed
• No new todos introduced

🧪 Testing Evidence

Please describe any additional testing aside from CI:

• Additional tests are provided (if possible)

🔱 Fork Strategy

• Node Runtime Update
• Node Client Update
• Other:
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