frank-primary cutover: tcclaviger RDNA4 stack, 600k ctx / 3 sessions / q8-q8 KV

Replace the R9V radiance fork with the tcclaviger RDNA4 vLLM stack (the
digest-pinned image the 2026-09-29 tuning campaign measured), serving
orcarouter/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-FP8 (131 shards, 172.8 GiB,
already on disk) with MTP4 spec decode.

Qualified by boot probe on 2026-09-29:
- MAXLEN=200000 x SEQS=3 (600k total) at --kv-cache-dtype fp8 (q8/q8 KV):
  'GPU KV cache size: 729,545 tokens; Maximum concurrency for 200,000
  tokens per request: 3.65x' at KV_BYTES 7.2 GiB PER RANK.
- KV_BYTES is per-rank: global 16G and 9G both OOM (worker tried to
  allocate the full size; ~7.5 GiB/rank is the ceiling with the arena).
- prefetch OFF by law (telemetry: 36% precision, ~50% wasted traffic);
  TunableOp off (corrupts numerics).
- decode at this shape: 42.94/34.55/36.09 tok/s; arena 6,032 slots.

Trio: frank-primary.env (all FRANK_PRIMARY_* keys), serve-frank-primary.sh
(direct podman run; entrypoint execs vllm serve; waits on the container),
frank-primary.service (root unit, same ExecStop law, new container name
frank-primary-qwen). Deployer gates rewritten (image digest + shard count
+ weight-map index). download-frank-primary.sh is now inventory/verify
(repo is GATED — 401 anonymous, masked LFS hashes; payload already on
disk). Seam rewritten for the new contract. Pre-cutover tag:
frank-primary-r9v-q8-20260929.

scripts/frank-primary.service

@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
-# frank-primary.service — R9V radiance-vLLM endpoint (unsloth
-# Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0, MTP4, TP=2, tiered experts, 6-shard payload) on
-# the 2x R9700 pair, dankserver :7770. 2026-09-27 cutover from the
-# uncensored IQ4_XS payload (its state dir stays on disk as rollback).
+# frank-primary.service — tcclaviger RDNA4 vLLM endpoint (orcarouter
+# Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-FP8, MTP4 spec decode, KV q8/q8, 600k total
+# context over 3 sessions, TP=2, tiered experts, 131-shard payload) on the
+# 2x R9700 pair, dankserver :7770. 2026-09-29 cutover from the R9V radiance
+# fork (git tag frank-primary-r9v-q8-20260929 is the pre-cutover state; its
+# launcher/shim/setup-state machinery is retired and the state dirs stay on
+# disk as rollback).
 #
-# Replaces the llama.cpp frank-primary unit (same port, same served alias;
-# harness models.yml unchanged in id, retuned for the 131072 window). The
-# serve script drives the R9V fork's own launcher through the docker->podman
-# shim and then waits on the container, so a crashed engine is a nonzero
-# ExecStart and Restart=on-failure is real.
+# Same port, same served alias; the harness models.yml id is unchanged.
+# The serve script drives `podman run` directly (the image entrypoint execs
+# `vllm serve`) and then waits on the container, so a crashed engine is a
+# nonzero ExecStart and Restart=on-failure is real.
 #
 # WHY A ROOT UNIT (not a rootless quadlet): the tiered-expert shape pins tens
-# of GiB of host RAM (the UVA expert host copy plus the 16 GiB PLE pinned
-# reserve). Pinned pages are charged against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK; dank's login
-# session on this host carries 8 MiB and a user quadlet is capped by the user
-# manager's own hard limit — raising that means restarting user@1000.service
-# and bouncing every user container on the host. A root unit grants
-# LimitMEMLOCK=infinity to the dank process via PID1, and the image stays in
-# dank's rootless podman storage (the shim drives podman as dank).
+# of GiB of host RAM (the expert host slabs, ~20.5 GiB per rank of pinned
+# anonymous memory). Pinned pages are charged against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK; dank's
+# login session on this host carries 8 MiB and a user quadlet is capped by the
+# user manager's own hard limit — raising that means restarting
+# user@1000.service and bouncing every user container on the host. A root unit
+# grants LimitMEMLOCK=infinity to the dank process via PID1, and the image
+# stays in dank's rootless podman storage.
 [Unit]
-Description=frank-primary — R9V radiance-vLLM Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0 on 2x R9700
+Description=frank-primary — tcclaviger vLLM Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-FP8 on 2x R9700
 After=network-online.target
 Wants=network-online.target
 
@@ -33,9 +35,9 @@ Environment="FRANK_PRIMARY_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-pr
 ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-primary.sh
 # systemd stop: wait alone cannot stop the container child; stop it
 # explicitly. vLLM 0.26 drains gracefully on SIGTERM.
-ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 120 frank-primary-r9v
-# Boot cost: the launcher's preflight doctor (~1 min) after a warm page
-# cache; cold (post-reboot) payload page-in of ~175 GiB dominates.
+ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 120 frank-primary-qwen
+# Boot cost: FP8 payload page-in plus torch compile/graph capture —
+# ~15 min cold (measured 2026-09-29), faster warm.
 TimeoutStartSec=1800
 Restart=on-failure
 RestartSec=10