The reader opens every index-named file in sorted order and emplaces
EVERY tensor each file physically holds, first-wins (checkpoint.cpp
add_shard + shard_list). The raw model-000NN shards carry tensors named
...ple.ple_embedding.ngram_embedding.shard_0.weight ([2500012,160] fp8)
- the identical name the plugin asks the merged table under - so
ple.merged.safetensors lost the emplace race and the plan read one raw
shard as the codes (declared [320001536,160] vs codes [2500012,160]).
Rename to 00-ple.merged.safetensors: '00-' wins the sort, the merged
bf16 tensor wins the name, table_bf16 declares and the rtn rule makes
the fp8 container form.
Run 3 rewrote the staged index THROUGH the relative symlink into the raw
checkpoint: the raw index.json was restamped with the stacked layout
(605 KB smaller), the raw verify then failed 143/144 and the overnight
run died before stacking. Two fixes:
- stack-qwen38-official-fp8.py: index/config writes are now temp+os.replace
(an atomic swap replaces the symlink itself; the raw tree stays pristine).
- build-frank-primary-rad.sh: the stage's index.json is COPIED like
config.json; only shards stay relative symlinks.
- release the numpy frombuffer view before closing the source mmap
(Python 3.14 BufferError: cannot close exported pointers exist).
- stacked scale planes rename: checkpoint.cpp scale_name() appends
_scale_inv to the STACKED tensor name verbatim (no .weight segment) -
...experts.gate_up_proj_scale_inv, not ...gate_up_proj.weight_scale_inv.
Boot ledger lines, 19,404 used / 4,721 MiB free (the q8_0 proof), decode arms (66.1 t/s @0.8, 66.9 @0, 58.9 @recipe 1.0 with acceptance 52.1%/52.2%/44.8%), vision Red probe, reasoning_effort xhigh/high contract, e2e 12-crawl transient + full-gate green rerun. Unit Description updated in-repo; the relinked unit picks it up at the next deploy/restart (no bounce for cosmetics). 360/360 suite green.
Replace the FreeToken PR587 endpoint (single-GPU: its TP=2 dies in the
pynccl.cu ROCm JIT) with the radiance engine on both R9700s, TP=2 via
libr4d's fused one-shot all-reduce. Official Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8
payload at native block-FP8 precision:
- scripts/build-frank-primary-rad.sh: staging (quantization_config drop =
plugin SELECTION law) -> checkpoint reshape -> rad-convert with ONE
--quant rule (PLE rtn fixed-scale); plan-only first.
- scripts/stack-qwen38-official-fp8.py: the two value-preserving reshapes
(experts byte-stacked into the plugin's stacked layout; PLE's 128
scaleless fp8 shards decoded to one bf16 shard with the checkpoint's own
scale; the rtn rule re-encodes at that same scale - codes round-trip
exactly and land the one-element scale plane the plugin declares).
- scripts/hfget.sh + verified download (131/131 shards sha256-match).
- froggeric v22.5 chat template vendored (--override-chat-template).
- serve script (pinned ledger: 2x40 GiB pools + 47.7 GiB PLE + prefix host),
TTM preflight fixed for kernels with pages_limit only (no pages_max -
an absent knob is skipped, not read as zero); pages_limit raised to
52,428,800 pages = 200 GiB on the host pre-cutover.
- root unit, relinked; deployer gates image digest + .rad floor 158,000 MiB
+ health; prometheus re-adds the /metrics job.
- rollback: tag frank-primary-freetoken-pr587-20261005 (FreeToken trio +
Dockerfile); payload + image stay on disk until the window closes.
deploy-remote.sh also carries the parallel session's frank-small payload
gates (swift15) - committed here per Frank's direction to commit the tree.
Frank