commit 1b90f421c63dff51eb028dce2b70c7b356461869
Author: Frank <frank@socalivistsocialism.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 7 22:20:52 2026 -0700

    Initial vLLM Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 serving with CPU expert offloading

diff --git a/validate-vllm.sh b/validate-vllm.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# End-to-end validation test for vLLM Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 on dankserver
+# Measures prompt processing speed (tokens/second)
+set -euo pipefail
+
+HOST="${1:-127.0.0.1}"
+PORT="${2:-8001}"
+
+echo "=== Validating vLLM on ${HOST}:${PORT} ==="
+
+# Test health endpoint
+echo "Health check..."
+if ! curl -sf "http://${HOST}:${PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "FAIL: Health check failed"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Test chat completions with timing
+echo "Running prompt test..."
+START=$(date +%s%N)
+RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST "http://${HOST}:${PORT}/v1/chat/completions" \
+    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+    -d '{
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8",
+        "messages": [
+            {"role": "user", "content": "Explain the difference between supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning in machine learning. For each type, provide a concrete real-world example, describe the training process, and discuss the advantages and limitations. Then compare them across three dimensions: data requirements, interpretability of results, and computational cost. Finally, describe a hybrid scenario where combining two of these approaches would outperform using either alone."}
+        ],
+        "max_tokens": 256
+    }')
+END=$(date +%s%N)
+
+ELAPSED_MS=$(( (END - START) / 1000000 ))
+
+# Extract metrics from response
+PROMPT_TOKENS=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['usage']['prompt_tokens'])")
+COMPLETION_TOKENS=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['usage']['completion_tokens'])")
+CONTENT=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['choices'][0]['message']['content'][:100])")
+
+# Calculate speed
+if [ "$ELAPSED_MS" -gt 0 ]; then
+    PROMPT_SPEED=$(python3 -c "print(f'{${PROMPT_TOKENS}/${ELAPSED_MS}*1000:.2f}')")
+    COMPLETION_SPEED=$(python3 -c "print(f'{${COMPLETION_TOKENS}/${ELAPSED_MS}*1000:.2f}')")
+else
+    PROMPT_SPEED="N/A"
+    COMPLETION_SPEED="N/A"
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "=== Results ==="
+echo "Prompt tokens:      ${PROMPT_TOKENS}"
+echo "Completion tokens:  ${COMPLETION_TOKENS}"
+echo "Total time:         ${ELAPSED_MS}ms"
+echo "Prompt speed:       ${PROMPT_SPEED} tok/s"
+echo "Completion speed:   ${COMPLETION_SPEED} tok/s"
+echo "Sample output:      ${CONTENT}..."
+echo ""
+
+# Fail if prompt speed < 5 tok/s
+if [ "$ELAPSED_MS" -gt 0 ] && [ "$PROMPT_TOKENS" -gt 0 ]; then
+    TOO_SLOW=$(python3 -c "print('yes' if ${PROMPT_TOKENS}/${ELAPSED_MS}*1000 < 5 else 'no')")
+    if [ "$TOO_SLOW" = "yes" ]; then
+        echo "FAIL: Prompt speed ${PROMPT_SPEED} tok/s is below 5 tok/s threshold"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+echo "PASS: Validation successful"
+echo "$PROMPT_SPEED" > /tmp/vllm_prompt_speed.txt
diff --git a/vllm-qwen36.sh b/vllm-qwen36.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 vLLM serving script for dankserver
+# CPU expert offloading to fit MoE model on 24GB RTX 3090
+
+MODEL="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8"
+DRAFT_MODEL="/home/dank/.cache/huggingface/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DFlash"
+PORT=8001
+HOST="0.0.0.0"
+
+exec docker run --rm --name vllm-qwen36 \
+    --gpus all \
+    --privileged \
+    --ipc=host \
+    -p "${PORT}:${PORT}" \
+    -e PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True \
+    -v /home/dank/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
+    docker.io/vllm/vllm-openai:nightly \
+    "${MODEL}" \
+    --port "${PORT}" \
+    --host "${HOST}" \
+    --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
+    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
+    --max-num-seqs 3 \
+    --max-model-len 16384 \
+    --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
+    --trust-remote-code \
+    --cpu-offload-gb 30 \
+    --cpu-offload-params "experts" \
+    --enable-chunked-prefill \
+    --enable-prefix-caching \
+    --enforce-eager