# Tunables for frank-medium (ajgazin/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP # UD-Q8_K_XL + z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-GGUF Q8_0 drafter), mainline llama.cpp # on Dankserver, 2x AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (gfx1201). Since 2026-09-16 this # is the SOLE LLM runtime on the box: the vllm-radiance replica pair and its # routing proxy are retired. # # Hardware: two R9700 (Navi 48, RDNA4, 32,624 MiB each), no XGMI, different # IOMMU groups -- every cross-card byte goes over PCIe. The Raphael iGPU # (gfx1036/Radeon 610M) enumerates as HIP device 2 and is hidden below so # nothing can drift onto shared system RAM. # # WHY LAYER SPLIT AND NOT TENSOR (operator call, 2026-09-16): tensor parallel # needs a cross-card allreduce per layer, and this host cannot dispatch one. # RCCL's kernels carry a hidden hostcall-buffer parameter, and ROCr refuses it # on a device without PCIe atomics -- the second card sits behind the B650 # chipset bridges (AtomicOpsCap: Routing-, read-only), so every collective that # touches it dies with hipErrorIllegalState. Measured on this box 2026-09-15 # (llama-bench, pp4096 / tg128, f16 KV, fa on): # # single R9700 1160.9 / 19.42 # layer 2x 1991.2 / 18.76 (859.1 / 17.64 at depth 32768) # tensor 2x 271.8 / 26.26 (no RCCL: butterfly fallback, -7x prefill) # # Layer split distributes layers in order; only the activation at the boundary # crosses the wire, once per forward pass. That is the "pipeline parallelism" # this service wanted, and it needs no collective at all. # # Runtime: mainline llama.cpp master fb27a525 (2026-09-16), gfx1201, built by # scripts/build-llama-rdna4.sh against a private ROCm 7.14.0a20260624 toolchain # that is bundled next to the binary (RPATH $ORIGIN/../lib, no LD_LIBRARY_PATH). # The ref is pinned by TWO features: DFlash2 (ggml-org/llama.cpp#27342 -- the # drafter is detected from its GGUF) and qwen35 MTP. Do not float it. # # Model: ajgazin/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-GGUF @ UD-Q8_K_XL, # 29.29 GiB, arch qwen35, Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 (per-tensor types from Unsloth's # own quant of the same size, on Unsloth's importance matrix). Abliteration is # orcarouter's single refusal direction projected out of 131 tensors; the vision # tower is untouched but unused here (text only, see NO_MMPROJ). The file also # carries the model's MTP head (blk.64.nextn.*), so a file-level switch to # --spec-type draft-mtp is available without a second copy in VRAM. # # Drafter: z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-GGUF @ Q8_0, 1.92 GiB: 5 layers, hidden # 5120, block-diffusion proposal with the candidate selector. Decoding stays # lossless -- the target verifies every drafted token. # # Architecture (GGUF arch qwen35): 64 layers as 16 x (3 x (Gated DeltaNet -> # FFN) + 1 x (Gated Attention -> FFN)) -- 48 linear-attention layers whose # per-sequence state is CONSTANT-SIZE, 16 full-attention layers at 4 KV heads x # 256 head_dim. A token therefore costs 2 x 4 x 256 x 2 B = 64 KiB of KV at f16 # in the attention layers only, plus ~0.16 GiB per sequence of f32 DeltaNet # state at any depth. # # SIZING, measured (rocm-smi, 2026-09-16). Weights split across the two cards; # the drafter rides the second. The loader's compute buffers are part of what # is seen below -- they are allocated at load, not per request: # # CTX_SIZE GPU 0 GPU 1 headroom on the busier card # 131072 19.89 GB 24.30 GB 9.9 GB / 31 % # 262144 24.72 GB 29.14 GB 5.07 GB / 15 % <- deployed # # 262144 is the window the model ships (n_ctx_train) and it fits with room, so # the fleet gets the whole thing; the arithmetic that used to cap this endpoint # at 114688 was the vLLM predecessor's, not this runtime's. If a future change # adds VRAM (a longer drafter, quantized KV, more slots) re-read the numbers # rather than assuming, and prefer CTX_SIZE over --gpu-layers. # # WARNING: do not name any variable TEMP, HOST, or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE (HIP reads # those bare vars; 2026-08-13 incident). llama.cpp takes --host/--port/--temp # as flags only. # llama-server: mainline fb27a525 built for gfx1201 by scripts/build-llama-rdna4.sh. LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama.cpp-dflash2/build-rdna4-rocm714/bin/llama-server # Payload, fetched with scripts/download-frank-medium-gguf.sh. MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-GGUF MODEL_FILE=Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf DRAFT_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-GGUF DRAFT_MODEL_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-Q8_0.gguf # Fleet identity. 7770 is the fleet's dankserver endpoint; the alias is the id # at /v1/models and what every client asks for. ALIAS=frank-medium BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0 LISTEN_PORT=7770 # Device placement. HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES hides the Raphael iGPU (HIP device 2) # so nothing can drift onto shared system RAM; DEVICES is what llama.cpp splits # across, and neither of the two cards has an XGMI link to the other. HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 DEVICES=ROCm0,ROCm1 SPLIT_MODE=layer # Empty = distribute layers by free VRAM (equal here, so 1,1 by hand). TENSOR_SPLIT=1,1 NGL=999 # Auto-fit has no business resizing a context we set explicitly. FIT=off FLASH_ATTN=on # One slot at the model's full configured window (n_ctx_train 262144), which was # measured to fit before it was deployed: see SIZING above. --parallel DIVIDES # --ctx-size between slots, so one slot carries the whole window and a second # concurrent request queues behind it. CTX_SIZE=262144 PARALLEL=1 BATCH_SIZE=2048 UBATCH_SIZE=512 # Threads cover tokenization, sampling and HTTP only: every layer is on a GPU. NUM_THREADS=8 THREAD_BATCH=8 # f16 K/V: an agentic checkpoint is the wrong place to spend KV precision. CACHE_TYPE_K=f16 CACHE_TYPE_V=f16 CTX_CHECKPOINTS=8 CACHE_RAM=8192 # Sampling defaults for requests that send none -- the values the vLLM # predecessor served on this endpoint (`--override-generation-config`), so a # client sees no change across the runtime swap. The model card's own # recommendation is temp 1.0 / top_p 0.95; the harness sets its own per model in # models.yml, so this is the floor, not the contract. TEMPERATURE=0.7 TOP_P=0.95 TOP_K=20 MIN_P=0.0 PRESENCE_PENALTY=0.0 # Reasoning on, projected into reasoning_content (deepseek format) with no # budget: the model decides how long to think. REASONING=on REASONING_FORMAT=deepseek REASONING_BUDGET=-1 # Chat template: empty = the one embedded in the GGUF (Qwen3.8's own). CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE= CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS='{"enable_thinking":true,"preserve_thinking":true}' # Speculative decoding: the DFlash2 block-diffusion drafter. Its GGUF carries # block_size 8, so at most 7 draft tokens per verification step (llama.cpp # asserts n_max <= block_size - 1); 7 is also what the drafter was published # with. The drafter rides ROCm1, the card that ends up holding the target's # last layers -- the hidden states the proposal consumes. SPEC_TYPE=draft-dflash SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=7 SPEC_DRAFT_NGL=999 SPEC_DRAFT_DEVICE=ROCm1 SPEC_DRAFT_TYPE_K=f16 SPEC_DRAFT_TYPE_V=f16 # Text only: the server must not autoload a vision tower. Vision stays on # frank-small (Dankclaw, RTX 3090), which is the fleet's image endpoint. NO_MMPROJ=1