Frank's 02:36 instruction (archive 01a14c93) ordered the 27B PTQ1_0 arm at
2 x 200,704 with the Q8 mmproj and batch/ubatch 3072/1536; it served
production 03:14:39-03:38:57 (pid 191358, journal type ptq1_0: 402 tensors).
Recovered its numbers from that process's own print_timing lines: ~48 t/s
single-stream decode, 25-27 t/s per stream at two streams, prefill 1,295 t/s
at 30,637 -> 943 at 97,856 -> 801 at 141,365. It bought the promised 1,201 MiB
and lost 37% of decode against the PQ2_0 record, so the publisher's Ampere
warning generalizes to GA102; Frank scratched the 27B plan at 03:33 for the 9B.
Every 'unfinished experiment' claim is re-keyed, and the AGENTS.md law gains
the durable lesson: a bench verdict that never reaches the repo is
indistinguishable from a rogue arm.
frank-dragoon's total in-flight context was HALF frank-zealot's: zealot runs
one 401,408-position pool split into two 200,704 conversations, while dragoon
ran ONE 200,704-position pool behind its two slots, so a single maximum-length
request filled it and two long conversations had to stay under ~100k each.
HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS 200704 -> 401408 = slots x ctx, the top of the seam's
legal band (ctx <= pool <= slots * ctx). The PER-REQUEST ceiling does not move:
HALOGEN_CTX stays 200704, because the checkpoint's native window is 262,144 and
the engine's own 400 text refuses to exceed it without HALOGEN_ROPE_YARN. What
this buys is concurrency, not a longer conversation, which is why the harness
contextWindow (155648 = ceiling - 45056) is untouched.
Cost: ~10.8 GiB of KV where 200,704 cost 5.5 (262,144 cost 7.2; the
2026-10-06 shape's 524,288 measured 14.6), taken from the page cache the 51.2 GB
n-gram table reads through — the warm prompt-cache ratio is the number to
re-measure after the boot. Engine-side total goes 74.1 -> ~79.4 GiB of 121.2.
Also carries scripts/download-frank-zealot-bonsai2-ptq1.sh: the PTQ1_0 candidate
payload fetcher (5,946,648,928 B, LFS sha256-verified, mmproj hardlinked), with
the publisher's own throughput table in its header — the packing is smaller but
the card measures it SLOWER on Ampere, so the swap is decided on our card, not
on the card's A100 row.
Frank