---
type: reference
title: frank-medium (retired) — the Dankserver endpoint before frank-archon
description: "Locator for the retired Dankserver LLM endpoint: which era page owns which payload, and where the dates disagree."
timestamp: 2026-10-19
tags:
  - llm
  - dankserver
  - frank-medium
  - retired
  - retired-endpoint
---

# frank-medium (retired) — the Dankserver endpoint before frank-archon

`frank-medium` was the LLM service on Dankserver port 7770. It is **not** a live
endpoint: the same port is [[frank-archon]] today, and [[frank-archon]] owns every
shape served from 2026-09-26 onward, including the `frank-medium` → `frank-archon`
name cutover dated 2026-10-10 in `AGENTS.md`. This page owns only the **locator** —
which era page holds which payload's evidence — and carries no measurements: every
number stays in the era page that measured it.

## Eras

Windows are quoted from each era page's own banner; no date here is derived.

| Window | Runtime | Payload | Shape | Page | Rollback |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-16 | llama.cpp, ROCmFPX fork pinned at commit `36e9acd` | `Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0_ROCMFPX_AGENT.gguf` (custom tensor type 103) | single card; the fork is the only loader | [[frank-medium-rocmfpx]] | re-fetch the GGUF, rebuild the fork |
| 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-19 | vllm-radiance on the old TUF GAMING B650-E board | ParoQuant MXFP4 | two single-GPU replicas behind an adaptive-routing proxy | [[frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4]] (sections below its deployed-shape header) | the replica pair is reconstructable from that page's flags |
| 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-20 | llama.cpp `fb27a525`, ROCm `7.14.0a` | its own GGUF build, DFlash drafter | `-sm layer` split across the two cards, drafter pinned to one device | [[frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2]] | the page is the named rollback target for the llama shape |
| 2026-09-20 → disputed, see Open questions | vllm-radiance on the replacement ProArt board | ParoQuant MXFP4, then MXFP6 (`paroquant_mxfp6`) with bf16 KV | `--tensor-parallel-size 2` over x8/x8 Gen5 root ports | [[frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4]] (deployed-shape header) | re-fetch the MXFP4 checkpoint (host census 2026-10-19: not local); image `localhost/radiance-vllm:0.9.3` |

`[[frank-medium-batch-ubatch]]` is not an era: it is the batch-versus-ubatch sweep run
on the layer-split pair at its deployed shape, and its numbers belong to that
campaign. `[[frank-medium-model-swap]]` is likewise a campaign ledger — the record of
the 2026-09-20 swap procedure — while the procedure itself is owned by
[[Model Swap and Rollback]].

## Laws

None restated. Each era page carries its own laws and links them to the technique
page that owns the mechanism ([[PCIe Link and Atomics]],
[[Llama Cpp Multi-Device Splits]], [[DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding]],
[[Llama Cpp Serving Sizing]], [[Dual-R9700-Cooperation]]).

## Open questions

Two date claims in the era pages do not reconcile, and both are left standing rather
than silently corrected:

- `frank-medium-rocmfpx.md` banner says the MXFP4 stack replaced that era and, in the
  next sentence, names [[frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2]] as the active successor. The
  MXFP4 replica era and the llama layer-split era both open on 2026-09-16, so which
  one directly followed the ROCmFPX fork cannot be settled from the repo.
- `frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4.md` dates its own retired era to 2026-10-10, while
  [[frank-archon]]'s Eras table opens on 2026-09-26. The gap is either an unrecorded
  fortnight on that endpoint or a stale banner; nothing else in the repo covers
  2026-09-26 → 10-10 for port 7770.

## Files

No repo files own this endpoint: its units, env and serve scripts were renamed to
`frank-archon` on 2026-10-10 and are owned by [[frank-archon]]. `scripts/old/` holds
retired serve scripts from these eras as reference only.