# frank-primary — unsloth llama.cpp (b11030-mix prebuilt, ROCm gfx120X) # serving unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF at Q8_0 on the two Radeon AI PRO # R9700s (gfx1201), with the shared Q8_0 MTP drafter head, the BF16 vision # projector, and the draft-mtp + ngram-mod spec chain. # # These are the tunables read by scripts/serve-frank-primary.sh. The flag # list is owned by the serve script; this file only sets fleet values. # # DO NOT name a new tunable TEMP, HOST or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: the HIP # runtime reads those bare (the 2026-08-13 TEMP incident). The bind address # is BIND_HOST, not HOST — frank-large's env predates that lesson and gets # away with it; do not copy the shape. # The payload (scripts/download-frank-primary.sh): the serve script refuses # to start without all six Q8_0 parts, the MTP head and the projector. MODEL_ROOT=/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF # The runtime: the unsloth b11030-mix prebuilt for gfx120X (the same # b11030-mix build frank-large runs on gfx1151 — it bundles its own ROCm # runtime, no host SDK gate). RUNTIME_DIR=/home/dank/GitPackages/unsloth-llama-b11030 # Fleet endpoint: the port and alias the lucebox DS4.1 quadlet held before # the 2026-09-26 swap, so no client, probe or models.yml entry changes # address. BIND_HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=7770 # One conversation, the model's full native 262144 window. CONTEXT_SIZE=262144 PARALLEL_SLOTS=1 # Spec chain: draft-mtp (the shared Q8_0 head) at depth 2, with the # draftless ngram-mod matcher chained behind it. Depth 2 is the measured # optimum class for this pair at long contexts (the retired Dankclaw # Flash-Next deployment ran exactly this head at depth 2 with 0.83-0.92 # acceptance); each extra verified position re-batches the CPU expert reads, # so depth buys less than bandwidth here. SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=2 # Device placement. -ngl 999 puts every layer's non-overridden tensors on # the GPUs; the big overrides then move the bandwidth-huge tensors to host # RAM (computed there — the x4-pair measurement: streaming over PCIe loses, # computing in RAM does not). OT_OVERRIDES is comma-separated # = pairs passed as repeated --override-tensor # flags. Both overrides are pinned by the header dump of parts 2-3 # (2026-09-26, /home/dank/models/dump-gguf.py — GGUF v3, 512 experts # top-10, qwen4exp.ple.ngram_size=3, heads_per_ngram=8): # * exps=CPU — the routed experts (blk.*.ffn_*_exps.weight, ~100 GiB at # Q8_0), read once per token; the CPU backend computes them from page # cache. # * per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU — the 51.2B-element PLE n-gram table # (dims [160, 320001536], Q8_0, 54.4 GiB — the whole of part 3): # sparse row lookups, tiny PCIe traffic from CPU RAM. It doubles as # the shared MTP head's borrow tensor — GPU-resident, the draft load # crashes with "invalid vector subscript" (llama.cpp PR #28243) — so # this override is REQUIRED, not just a placement choice. NEVER give # it a GPU target (the 23 -> 13.4 t/s regression) and never --no-mmap # (the table must stay page-cache-backed; anonymous memory # cgroup-kills silently). NGL=999 OT_OVERRIDES=exps=CPU,per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU TENSOR_SPLIT=1,1 # The drafter MUST sit on the SECOND R9700 (ROCm1): with -ts 1,1 the main # model's output head lands on the last-layers card, and the shared MTP head # BORROWS it. --override-tensor sets has_tensor_overrides(), which pins # n_copies==1 in the draft's scheduler — a borrowed output.weight sitting in # a ROCm1 buffer then aborts the draft graph with ggml-backend.cpp:941 # "pre-allocated tensor (output.weight) in a buffer (ROCm1) that cannot run # the operation" when the draft is elsewhere (verified live 2026-09-26: the # ROCm0 placement crash-looped 4x at ~12 s, ROCm1 loaded and served). SPEC_DRAFT_DEVICE=ROCm1 # Batch geometry: logical batch 8192 with ubatch 512 — the measured optimum # class on this fleet's ROCm stack (a bigger logical batch is free; compute # buffers reserve at max graph size). ubatch 512 balances prefill # throughput against the asymmetric compute-buffer cost on the card that # holds the output layers and the drafter. BATCH_SIZE=8192 UBATCH_SIZE=512 # Prompt-cache budget: 16 GiB. The KV itself is small (the hybrid # DeltaNet/QSA pattern keeps a 262144 window a fraction of the full-ctx # x all-layers number), so the prompt cache is the RAM-side spend that # actually moves prefill on repeat traffic. Host RAM budget: ~175 GiB of # expert pages + this cache + the server's own arenas inside 246 GiB. CACHE_RAM=16384