Frankandomp 53ef121180 feat(frank-dragoon): run the XDNA2 NPU lane beside the flash model
halogen-flash-server already ships an NPU path on the pin we run: for each
model named in HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS it loads the vendor's precompiled AIE
programs (XDNA2 executes only AIE-compiled graphs) and answers them on
/v1/embeddings inside the SAME container behind port 7770. That gives the
fleet an in-house embedding endpoint without touching the iGPU trunk.

The lane is opt-in and one line wide: HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS blank is the
pre-lane endpoint byte for byte (no device, no mounts, no engine env).

The three host preconditions the vendor names are gated in the serve script
and mirrored in the deployer (the 2026-10-01 twin law), each refused by name:
  - the staged model files. /models is read-only and HALOGEN_DOWNLOAD stays
    unset so the container opens no outbound connection at boot, so
    scripts/download-frank-dragoon-npu.sh stages them from the pinned
    revision with the catalog's own byte counts and sha256s (the engine
    re-checks both at boot);
  - the distro XRT's libxrt_coreutil/libxrt_core/libxrt_driver_xdna, each
    mounted twice — where the image looks for XRT and at its own path —
    because those libraries find each other where they were installed and
    an /opt/xilinx/xrt of symlinks dangles inside the container;
  - the GPU fabric clock HELD. On Strix Halo the iGPU and the NPU co-running
    hang the machine (and corrupt NPU results) while FCLK changes speed, and
    halogen refuses to start in that state; it cannot read host sysfs from
    inside, so the hold is proven host-side. dankclaw/host/ carries the
    vendor's halogen-fabric-clock{,.service} verbatim at tag v0.16.2 (sha256
    a3a4f7f4e0142e71… / 5f9f1cc4c85a1c02…); the deployer installs, enables
    and gates it only while the lane is named, and releases the clock plus
    drops the boot hook when it is not.

After health, the deployer's lane gate is a real embedding through
/v1/embeddings — a 200 on /health proves nothing about the NPU programs.

Planner: dankclaw/host/halogen-fabric-clock* re-dispatches frank-dragoon
(the deployer installs it); dankclaw/host/grub and the fetch script plan
nothing.

Seam: 11 new tests — the off arm really renders nothing lane-specific, the
on arm renders the device/mounts/env, every missing precondition refuses by
name, the deployer twins and the host unit shape are pinned.

Co-Authored-By: omp <omp@dankclaw>
2026-10-19 21:22:50 -07:00
2026-10-15 18:22:22 -07:00

Server App Configs

AI Disclosures:

  • Slop rating: 2/5 - Actively using, actively de-slopping, repository mostly human owned, lacks formal process.
  • Completeness: Unfinished, planning planned, no plan yet
  • Datacenter model/spend: Less than $20 of Deepseek 4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash
  • Local model: Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

slop rating of 2 or lower indicates human reading is a worthwhile exercise, and that Frank has read the code and knows the architecture.

slop rating of 2 indicates that while this project is human owned, no human contribution process exists and/or release is agentically driven.

The single repository for the two homelab servers: the Podman container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. One repo, one checkout per host, one deploy script.

2026-08-22: the former vllmScripts repository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. See AGENTS.md for the merge note.

Targets

Host User IP Podman stack LLM service LLM port
dankserver dank 192.168.0.235 media and library frank-medium (ROCmFPX llama.cpp, Qwen3.8-27B AGENT) 7770
dankclaw dank 192.168.0.143 AI, search, development, observability frank-dragoon (gufo, Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q8_K_XL) 7770

Active Services

Service Host Hostname Port
RomM dankserver romm.dankserver.local 8085
Copyparty dankserver files.dankserver.local 3923
Calibre-Web dankserver books.dankserver.local 8083
frank-medium dankserver — (bare endpoint) 7770
SearXNG dankclaw search.dankclaw.local 8081
ComfyUI dankclaw comfyui.dankclaw.local 8188
OpenWebUI dankclaw chat.dankclaw.local 3000
Hermes dankclaw hermes.dankclaw.local 8090
Gitea dankclaw gitea.dankclaw.local 3001
Grafana dankclaw grafana.dankclaw.local 3002
Prometheus dankclaw prometheus.dankclaw.local 9090
frank-dragoon dankclaw — (bare endpoint) 7770

Structure

  • dankserver/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stack
  • dankclaw/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stack
  • shared/ — homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpers
  • scripts/ — deploy.sh and deploy-remote.sh (service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnesses
  • old/ — retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)
  • serverAppConfigs-docs/ — project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks). serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/ is the LLM fleet
  • tests/ — bats test suite (see Testing Policy)

Deployment

See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Deployment Flow.md and serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md. Run ./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after committing changes. It plans and deploys only the changed services. Use --service NAME for an explicit single-service retry; inference is restarted only when its own files (or the shared chat template) changed.

Knowledge Base

The serverAppConfigs-docs/ directory is an Obsidian vault. Start at serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md. The LLM fleet knowledge base lives at serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.

Testing

Run ./tests/run.sh before every push. See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md.

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