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Frank 6a8cbde260 docs(vault): retire the ACTIVE labels on frank-medium era pages (cluster C5)
The root and LLM index pages still advertised two retired endpoints' pages as
live procedure:

- `frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4`: frontmatter said "ACTIVE frank-medium
  runbook" and the body opened "The ACTIVE frank-medium deployment". Both
  re-keyed to the era it ran (2026-09-21 -> 10-10), with [[frank-archon]]'s
  Eras table named as the owner of that shape.
- `frank-medium-model-swap`: read as live how-to for a retired endpoint.
  Re-keyed to historical, pointing at [[Model Swap and Rollback]] for the
  current swap law.
- Both index pages' rows re-keyed to match (rows are hand-copied from
  frontmatter - no generator - so both sites move together).

Refs: vault de-dup campaign, cluster C5.
2026-10-19 02:00:21 -07:00

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LLM fleet — index

The three live endpoint pages are the only pages that carry a shape. Everything else here is a technique, a piece of hardware, or a trial that taught a law — and each of those owns exactly that one thing. The incidents behind the laws are in log.

Live endpoints

Page Owns
frank-archon The one frank-archon page: the live radiance shape and harness contract (read off scripts/frank-archon.env), the Eras…
frank-dragoon The one runbook for frank-dragoon, the Strix Halo iGPU endpoint (192.168.0.143:7770): current shape from the env,…
frank-zealot The one frank-zealot reference: the live shape on Dankclaw's RTX 3090 (:7771) exactly as scripts/frank-zealot.env…

Retired endpoints

Page Owns
frank-medium-batch-ubatch llama-bench sweep of --batch-size against --ubatch-size on frank-medium (2x Radeon AI PRO R9700, layer split) at the…
frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2 The former ACTIVE frank-medium deployment since 2026-09-16 (model swapped 2026-09-19) — mainline llama.cpp on…
frank-medium-model-swap RETIRED-era swap procedure for the frank-medium endpoint (:7770 is now frank-archon) — the…
frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4 RETIRED frank-medium era runbook — vllm-radiance serving hugypufy/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-PARO-MXFP6 (ParoQuant MXFP6 W4A8,…
frank-medium-rocmfpx charlie12345/ROCmFPX llama.cpp serving kingjones777/Qwen3.8-27B-ROCmFPX-Q8_0-AGENT-GGUF as frank-medium on Dankserver…
frank-npu The retired FastFlowLM endpoint on Dankclaw's XDNA2 NPU — what it served, why it died on 2026-09-11 with the…
frank-redo-2026-08-17 This page records the full redo of the inference fleet on 2026-08-17.
ikllama-ornith-dankserver ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp replaces upstream llama.cpp for frank-zealot on the RTX 3090. Q8_0 model, KV K default f16 / V…
kingjones-q8agent-rocmfpx Status (historical, 2026-09-13): was to deploy on Dankclaw.
qwen3.8-spec-matrix This page records the speculative-decoding benchmark history and the

Pipeline Parallelism (series)

Page Owns
Ethernet Bandwidth Math Bytes-per-token math for pipeline vs tensor parallelism, feasibility tables for 1/2.5/10 GbE, and real multi-node…
Expected Performance Estimated tokens per second for a 25-40B model split across two nodes over 1/2.5/10 GbE, with real benchmark anchors.
llama.cpp RPC llama.cpp distributed inference via ggml-rpc-server and the --rpc flag: architecture, CLI, versions, limitations, and…
Mixed-Vendor Experiments Real-world NVIDIA + AMD Strix Halo multi-node experiments: what works (llama.cpp RPC, Vulkan split), what breaks…
Qwen3.6 27B Spec Methods Qwen3.6-27B Q8 GGUF variants and llama.cpp speculative decoding (draft-mtp, draft-dflash, ngram-mod): flags, RPC…
Qwen3.8 PP Deployment Split Qwen3.8-27B across the Strix Halo iGPU (head) and the RTX
Sample Script Set An educational two-node llama.cpp RPC split of Qwen3.6-27B-Q8_K_P over ethernet. For reading only. Do not run or…
vLLM Pipeline Parallelism vLLM multi-node pipeline parallelism: flags, Ray/mp backends, interconnect requirements, PP bubble, and PP +…

Techniques, hardware, trials

Page Owns
Dankclaw Improvements This page collects concrete, sourced recommendations to improve Dankclaw
Dankclaw System Specs Dankclaw is an AMD APU server for CIRU ROCmFPX llama.cpp inference.
dankclaw-iommu-translation-off Dankclaw boots iommu=pt since 2026-10-18 — identity DMA with the IOMMU armed, which restored the XDNA2 NPU at a…
Dankserver System Specs Dankserver hardware and OS state since the 2026-09-20 board swap (ASUS ProArt B850-Creator WiFi NEO, 2x AMD Radeon AI…
dankserver-frontier-moe-feasibility VERIFIED 2026-09-28 by measurement and source reading. Compares DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, MiMo-V2.6-Flash-MOPD and…
dankserver-vram-growth Investigation of the recurring cuBLAS crash on frank-zealot. What grows, what does not, and what to do next.
dealign-ornith-crack dealignai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-UNCENSORED (CRACK Q6_K) served by upstream llama.cpp on the RTX 3090. MoE model with…
deployment Scoped deployment and update process for the three inference services (frank-archon, frank-dragoon, frank-zealot).
DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding DFlash and DSpark are the two newest speculative decoding methods.
Dual-R9700-Cooperation Why frank-medium's two Radeon AI PRO R9700s could not run tensor-parallel on the old B650-E board (PCIe atomic…
FastFlowLM NPU Inference FastFlowLM (FLM), the AMD NPU-first LLM runtime for Ryzen AI XDNA2 chips. Fit analysis for the 50 TOPS NPU on…
FreeToken Builds Building FreeToken (the official franksdank fork of FreeTok Tokenworks' freetoken vLLM-MTP runtime) on Dankclaw — the…
freetoken-benchmark-sweep KV pool vs decode speed sweep across bs1/bs3/bs4/bs6 on Dankserver with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 via FreeToken v0.1.2.
GGUF Compatibility How to answer "will engine X load this GGUF?" from the file's header alone, why a custom tensor type forces the…
Heterogeneous Split Triage Triage before building when someone asks to split a model across unequal accelerators on one host (24 GB GDDR6X +…
Hybrid CPU GPU Processing Dankserver Dankserver uses NVIDIA GPU with system RAM for hybrid processing.
ling-3.0-flash-trial bailingmoe3-support (commit db4480bc8, build b10411) at /home/dank/llama.cpp-ling.
ling-3.0-flash-vllm-plan This page was the plan for a vLLM-ROCm deployment of jcbtc/Ling-3.0-Flash-CIRU-int4-Strix-native (INT4 W4A16, ~62…
Llama Cpp Multi-Device Splits What llama.cpp can and cannot express across devices, the no-collective layer-split path, split balancing by…
Llama Cpp Serving Sizing Slot-pool sizing against a headroom band, per-device VRAM accounting, prompt-cache/state sizing and the QSA…
LLM Bench Windows and Measurement Stopping-and-restoring benchmark windows on the fleet LLM hosts (llama-bench sweeps, HTTP param benches, multi-arm…
LLM Performance Diagnosis Probing why a served LLM is slow — the flat-depth probe, the expert-offload duty-cycle arithmetic, kernel-time…
Model Swap and Rollback The full model-swap discipline for the LLM fleet — fit preflight, fetch and payload verification, runtime build/flag…
PCIe Link and Atomics Link probing (idle downshift, path ceilings, CUDA/HIP bandwidth probes), the streaming-vs-compute ceiling arithmetic,…
Quantization by Hardware Architecture This page maps LLM quantization formats to the GPU and CPU architectures that support them.
Quantization Production —
qwen3.8-strix-optimizations This page answers one question: **how do we make Qwen3.8-27B serve faster on
RAM CPU Offloading in VLLM vLLM uses CPU RAM and swap space to extend GPU memory capacity.
RDNA4 Container Serving Bringing a model larger than VRAM onto Dankserver's 2x R9700 (gfx1201) with the tcclaviger vLLM stack — quant-class…
RDNA4 MoE Expert Offload VRAM Budget The expert-offload plan arithmetic on the tcclaviger fork — which terms a deploy can move, the util law, the…
Running Qwen3.6 27B FP8 on Dankclaw Qwen3.6-27B is a dense vision-language model from the Qwen3.6 series.
Running Qwen3.6 35B A3B FP8 on Dankserver Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model from the Qwen3.6 series.
Shared Memory Architecture Dankclaw Dankclaw uses AMD Strix Halo APU with unified memory architecture.
swift15-campaign-worklog —
Tcclaviger Fork Ops Operating the tcclaviger RDNA4 vLLM fork on dankserver (shape G era, rollback target since the 2026-10-05 FreeToken…
ubatch-benchmark-large Standardized ubatch sweep for the active kingjones Qwen3.8 ROCmFPX deployment.
vLLM Boot Forensics and Config Interrogation Capturing a vLLM container boot failure's real root cause from journald (the container log is already gone),…
VLLM Index This index contains all documentation for vLLM deployment on Dankserver and Dankclaw.
VLLM Overview vLLM is a fast and easy library for large language model inference and serving.
vLLM Porting and Compile Triage Forward-porting a model architecture to a new vLLM major (additive-only discipline, gap enumeration, shims that…
vllm_research_findings vLLM v0.26.0 (latest stable, released July 25, 2026) supports DFlash speculative decoding with the `--spec-method…
x4-pair-experiment What mainline llama.cpp can and cannot do with a 3090 + Strix Halo combination, measured 2026-09-16 on Dankclaw — the…