Frank
301914b1c0
frank-large moves from the kingjones30/ROCmFPX llama.cpp build to peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server 0.5.8 serving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (w4b .hgn 115.55 GiB + quality overlay). Upstream measures this engine at roughly 4x the prefill throughput of the llama.cpp family on the same gfx1151 silicon, and prefill dominates any prompt with real context. Shape: a rootless Quadlet container (dankclaw/frank-large/quadlet/), engine on container loopback :8730 (never published), OpenAI front-end :8731 published as host 7770, HALOGEN_MODEL_ID=frank-large so no client renamed anything. Context 262144, KV pool 262144 positions (~7.2 GiB, conservative for a shared 121 GiB host), 4 slots, host reserve 24, vision tower on, weights pinned, all other flags at vendor defaults. Weights are fetched by HALOGEN_DOWNLOAD on first start into a writable /home/dank/models/halogen. The llama.cpp era (unit, env, serve script) is staged in .AGENTTRASH/ rather than deleted; the STRIX payload and the ROCmFPX build stay on disk as the rollback target. deploy_llm_large becomes a user-quadlet handler: it retires the old ROOT unit (moving its checkout symlink into the home trash, never rm) and gates the first start on the download rather than reporting a failure for a fetch that is working exactly as designed. frank-npu is retired in the same change. The kernel cmdline moves from iommu=pt to amd_iommu=off for the 13-16% of prefill upstream measured, and that takes the XDNA2 NPU with it: without PASID/SVA the driver cannot open /dev/accel/accel0 (err=-19). Its five dependent routes are repointed (Hermes vision -> frank-large, Hermes title generation -> frank-small, harness vision -> frank-large, tiny -> frank-small, task -> frank-large:medium) and its provider blocks are removed from both the harness config and Hermes's live config. Audio input leaves the fleet with no replacement; image input survives on halogen's vision tower. Docs: new halogen-flash-server runbook, new IOMMU decision record, and frank-npu rewritten as a retirement record. AGENTS.md topology, runtime sections, benchmarking policy (frank-large is a user unit now) and the harness model-config section are corrected.
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# LLM Fleet — Knowledge Base
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Documentation for the LLM inference fleet on two local machines
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(2026-09-11): FreeToken v0.1.2 on Dankserver (frank-small,
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Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-FP8) and halogen-flash-server 0.5.8 on
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Dankclaw (frank-large, peonist-ai Qwen3.8-Flash-Next w4b).
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> 2026-08-22: the former `vllmScripts` repository is merged into the
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> serverAppConfigs repository. This knowledge base moved from the old repo's
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> `serverAppConfigs-docs/` root to `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/`. The fleet scripts and units now live in the
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> repo's `scripts/` directory.
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## Deployment Topology
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```mermaid
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graph LR
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subgraph Dankserver[NVIDIA Dankserver - Ubuntu 26.04]
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A[RTX 3090 24GB + 60GB RAM]
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B2[FreeToken v0.1.2
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frank-small, port 7770]
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C[Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-FP8
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block-fp8, 20% MoE residency, 453k KV / 4 streams]
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A --> B2 --> C
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end
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subgraph Dankclaw[AMD Strix Halo - Ubuntu 26.04]
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E2[gfx1151 iGPU 64 GiB unified memory]
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E[halogen-flash-server 0.5.8
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frank-large, port 7770]
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F[peonist-ai Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
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w4b .hgn + overlay, 262k ctx / 4 slots]
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E2 --> E --> F
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end
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CLI[LLM Clients / API] -->|HTTP :7770| B2
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CLI -->|HTTP :7770| E
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```
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## Servers
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| Server | GPU | VRAM / Memory | OS |
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| --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------ |
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| [[Dankserver System Specs\|Dankserver]] | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | 24 GB VRAM, 62 GB RAM | Ubuntu 26.04 |
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| [[Dankclaw System Specs\|Dankclaw]] | AMD Radeon 8060S (Strix Halo) | gfx1151 unified memory | Ubuntu 26.04 |
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## Active Deployment
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- [[freetoken-frank-small]] — the active frank-small
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runbook: FreeToken v0.1.2 serving batsclamp/Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-
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abliterated-FP8 on Dankserver (swapped 2026-08-30; same format/pools)
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- [[freetoken-benchmark-sweep]] — KV pool vs decode speed sweep
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(bs1/bs3/bs4/bs6, 8k–700k KV) on Dankserver RTX 3090
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- [[deployment]] — deploy and update process for both servers
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- [[frank-redo-2026-08-17]] — the 2026-08-17 topology change
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- [[halogen-flash-server]] — ACTIVE frank-large runbook since 2026-09-11:
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peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server 0.5.8 serving
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peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next w4b .hgn +
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quality overlay), rootless Quadlet container on Dankclaw port 7770 —
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deployed flags, memory model, client contract, troubleshooting
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- [[dankclaw-iommu-translation-off]] — why Dankclaw boots with
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`amd_iommu=off` since 2026-09-11 (13-16 % prefill, measured upstream),
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what it cost (the NPU endpoint), what was deliberately not copied from
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the reference machine, and how to revert
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- [[kingjones-strix-rocmfp4]] — PRIOR frank-large runbook and rollback
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target: kingjones777/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ROCmFP4-STRIX-GGUF, 177B params
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(56B MoE + 51.2B PLE), single 113.47 GiB GGUF, on the card's pinned
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kingjones30/ROCmFPX fork (2026-08-30 → 2026-09-11)
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- [[ubatch-benchmark-large]] — active-model llama-bench ubatch sweep plan and results
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- [[kingjones-q8agent-rocmfpx]] — the retired Q8_0-AGENT investigation and `set_rows` failure
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- [[eemin-rocmi4-mtp]] — the former caf-eemin Qwen3.8-27B embedded-MTP model
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on Dankclaw (retired)
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- [[dealign-ornith-crack]] — the retired Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B CRACK model on
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Dankserver (frank-small, retired 2026-09-02)
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- [[ikllama-ornith-dankserver]] — the retired ik_llama.cpp runtime for
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frank-small (2026-08-26): q8_0 + Hadamard KV cache,
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split-mode none (single-GPU), mandatory FA_ALL_QUANTS build flags
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- [[kingjones-strix-mtp]] — the former Q6 AGENT runbook (restored 2026-09-01
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after Q8_0 failure, then superseded by the STRIX deployment on 2026-08-27)
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- [[ciru-activefpx-promptforge]] — the RETIRED v3 CIRU PromptForge runtime
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on Dankclaw (superseded 2026-08-24 by the kingjones ROCmFP4 model)
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- [[kairic-edge]] — the retired Kairic Edge IU4 experiment
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(deployed and reverted 2026-08-22)
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- [[Dankserver System Specs]] — the RTX 3090 box (frank-small)
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- [[Dankclaw System Specs]] — the Strix Halo gfx1151 box (frank-large,
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on halogen-flash-server since 2026-09-11)
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- [[frank-npu]] — RETIRED 2026-09-11: the FLM NPU sight+sound endpoint
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on Dankclaw (Gemma4 E4B vision+audio pack, XDNA2, port 7771), kept as
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the retirement record — the IOMMU/SVA err=-19 root cause and where
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every dependent route moved
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## CIRU Reference (Dankclaw)
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- [[ciru-activefpx-promptforge]] — the RETIRED v3 model, ROCm 7.15 toolchain,
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and build history (on Dankclaw; the slot now serves the kingjones
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ROCmFP4 model, see [[kingjones-strix-mtp]])
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- [[kairic-edge]] — Kairic Edge IU4 runtime: build runbook, binary
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identity, and experiment summary (retired 2026-08-22)
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## DFlash2 Reference (archived)
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- [[dflash2-large-vulkan]] — the retired DFlash2 Vulkan deployment
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(2026-08-21)
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## vLLM Reference (historical)
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- [[VLLM Overview]] — installation, CLI, API, architecture, quantization, parallelism
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- [[VLLM Index]] — quick reference with commands, endpoints, and parameter table
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- [[Running Qwen3.6 35B A3B FP8 on Dankserver]] — Qwen3.6-35B-A3B hardware
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notes and sizing (this architecture family is what frank-small
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serves today in the Huihui abliterated FP8 variant — see
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[[freetoken-frank-small]]; the Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B CRACK checkpoint
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that preceded it is archived at [[dealign-ornith-crack]])
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## Memory Management
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- [[RAM CPU Offloading in VLLM]] — KV cache swap between GPU VRAM and system RAM
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- [[Hybrid CPU GPU Processing Dankserver]] — NVIDIA GPU compute with system RAM offload
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- [[Shared Memory Architecture Dankclaw]] — AMD unified memory and ROCm configuration
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## Retired Topology (2026-08-17 redo)
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- [[Qwen3.8 PP Deployment]] — the retired pipeline-parallel head + worker
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- [[qwen3.8-spec-matrix]] — Qwen3.8-27B spec history (superseded by FastMTP)
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- [[FastFlowLM NPU Inference]] — the retired FastFlowLM NPU endpoint
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- [[frank-large-benchmark]] — backend/spec benchmark behind the old head
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- [[dankserver-vram-growth]] — VRAM/RAM growth behind the retired cuBLAS crash
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- [[DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding]] — retired DFlash/DSpark drafting
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- [[Quantization by Hardware Architecture]] — which quant format fits which GPU/CPU
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## Pipeline Parallelism (archive)
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- [[Pipeline Parallelism/index]] — index of multi-node inference research. The PP
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pair is retired. These pages are research history.
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## Runtime Research (llama.cpp family)
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- [[Llama Cpp Runtimes]] — mainline vs charlie12345/ROCmFPX vs ik_llama.cpp: positioning, quantization, server fit
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- [[Llama Cpp Code Diff]] — code-level quantization diff of the three runtimes + server recommendations
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- [[SGLang]] — the structured-generation serving engine; when it fits Dankserver (3090) vs Dankclaw (Strix Halo)
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## Related
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- [Project knowledge base](../index.md) — the Podman app stacks on the same
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two hosts. OpenWebUI (Dankclaw) consumes the on-host `frank-large`
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endpoint at `:7770`. The Gitea instance on Dankclaw hosts this repository.
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- [Deployment Flow](../Architecture/Deployment%20Flow.md) — the service-scoped
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git-based deploy with inference isolation |