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The ROCmFPX row said "single card, pinned at 36e9acd": `36e9acd` is the SHA that `scripts/build-rocmfpx.sh` pins for the *build*, and the era page records the deployed commit as `c49ebdb` running a 2× R9700 `-sm layer` split over `ROCm0,ROCm1` at 131,072 × 1 slot with draft-MTP pinned to `ROCm1`. The 2026-09-20 row skipped a payload generation: the same day the endpoint swapped MXFP4 → FP8 E4M3 128×128 ([[frank-medium-model-swap]]) before MXFP6 arrived on 09-21. Both cells now quote the era pages.
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type: reference
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title: frank-medium (retired) — the Dankserver endpoint before frank-archon
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description: "Locator for the retired Dankserver LLM endpoint: which era page owns which payload, and where the dates disagree."
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timestamp: 2026-10-19
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tags:
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- llm
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- dankserver
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- frank-medium
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- retired
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- retired-endpoint
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---
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# frank-medium (retired) — the Dankserver endpoint before frank-archon
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`frank-medium` was the LLM service on Dankserver port 7770. It is **not** a live
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endpoint: the same port is [[frank-archon]] today, and [[frank-archon]] owns every
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shape served from 2026-09-26 onward, including the `frank-medium` → `frank-archon`
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name cutover dated 2026-10-10 in `AGENTS.md`. This page owns only the **locator** —
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which era page holds which payload's evidence — and carries no measurements: every
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number stays in the era page that measured it.
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## Eras
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Windows are quoted from each era page's own banner; no date here is derived.
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| Window | Runtime | Payload | Shape | Page | Rollback |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-16 | `charlie12345/ROCmFPX` llama.cpp `main` at `c49ebdb`, self-contained ROCm 7.14 | `Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0_ROCMFPX_AGENT.gguf` (custom tensor type 103) + an MTP Q4_0 draft | 2× R9700 `-sm layer` over `ROCm0,ROCm1`, 131,072 × 1 slot, f16 KV + flash attention, draft-MTP pinned to `ROCm1`; the fork is the only loader for that tensor type | [[frank-medium-rocmfpx]] | re-fetch the GGUF, rebuild the fork |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2026-09-20 → disputed, see Open questions | vllm-radiance on the replacement ProArt board | ParoQuant MXFP4 → FP8 E4M3 128×128 (`orcarouter/…-FP8`, same day, [[frank-medium-model-swap]]) → ParoQuant MXFP6 (`paroquant_mxfp6`) from 09-21 | `--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` |
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`[[frank-medium-batch-ubatch]]` is not an era: it is the batch-versus-ubatch sweep run
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on the layer-split pair at its deployed shape, and its numbers belong to that
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campaign. `[[frank-medium-model-swap]]` is likewise a campaign ledger — the record of
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the 2026-09-20 swap procedure — while the procedure itself is owned by
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[[Model Swap and Rollback]].
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## Laws
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None restated. Each era page carries its own laws and links them to the technique
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page that owns the mechanism ([[PCIe Link and Atomics]],
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[[Llama Cpp Multi-Device Splits]], [[DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding]],
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[[Llama Cpp Serving Sizing]], [[Dual-R9700-Cooperation]]).
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## Open questions
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Two date claims in the era pages do not reconcile, and both are left standing rather
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than silently corrected:
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- `frank-medium-rocmfpx.md` banner says the MXFP4 stack replaced that era and, in the
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next sentence, names [[frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2]] as the active successor. The
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MXFP4 replica era and the llama layer-split era both open on 2026-09-16, so which
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one directly followed the ROCmFPX fork cannot be settled from the repo.
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- `frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4.md` dates its own retired era to 2026-10-10, while
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[[frank-archon]]'s Eras table opens on 2026-09-26. The gap is either an unrecorded
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fortnight on that endpoint or a stale banner; nothing else in the repo covers
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2026-09-26 → 10-10 for port 7770.
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## Files
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No repo files own this endpoint: its units, env and serve scripts were renamed to
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`frank-archon` on 2026-10-10 and are owned by [[frank-archon]]. `scripts/old/` holds
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retired serve scripts from these eras as reference only.
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