Frank 9544c36afc PP kit + Strix research: Qwen3.8-27B RPC split (Dankclaw head / Dankserver worker)
- scripts: serve-pp-head/worker, envs, systemd units, pp-test.sh orchestrator, pp-bench.py
- head design verified in b10433 source + live 4B smoke test:
  * no --device with --rpc (RPC device silently dropped otherwise)
  * default device selection = [RPC0, ROCm0] (HIP registers before Vulkan)
  * default split proportional to reported free mem = ~20/80 here, pin 1,1
  * -dio required for large model over RPC
- docs: qwen3.8-strix-optimizations (ranked no-quant-downgrade levers,
  quant landscape, 2026-08-16 test matrix), PP deployment runbook,
  index updates, Dankclaw Improvements corrections (Vulkan0, no power_profile sysfs)
- worker built at 9b05354ec in /home/dank/llama-cpp-rpc worktree (CUDA+RPC)
- second head build build-vulkan-rpc (HIP off) for backend A/B
2026-08-16 05:40:27 -07:00

vLLM Scripts

Scripts for running LLM inference on two local machines.

Targets

Host User Codename Architecture
dankserver dank Dankserver NVIDIA RTX 3090 + 62 GB RAM
dankclaw dank Dankclaw AMD Strix Halo APU (shared memory)

Active Services

Service Host Runtime Model Port
frank-default-large dankclaw vLLM-ROCm (CIRU) Ling-3.0-flash CIRU INT4 MTP 7770
frank-default-small dankserver llama.cpp (ngram-mod) Qwen3.6-35B-A3B uncensored Q6_K_P 7770

The retired ROCmFPX llama.cpp service on Dankclaw was replaced by the vLLM service above. The retired vllm-awq-qwen36 (AWQ 4-bit) service on Dankserver was replaced by the llama.cpp service above. Legacy unit files remain in scripts/ for reference.

Models

Model Target Format
Ling-3.0-flash CIRU INT4 (MTP) dankclaw INT4 W4A16 (Quark/vLLM)
Qwen3.6 35B A3B uncensored Q6_K_P (ngram-mod speculative decoding) dankserver GGUF Q6_K_P (llama.cpp, MoE offload)
Qwen3.6 35B A3B AWQ 4bit dankserver AWQ (retired)
Qwen3.6 35B A3B FP8 dankserver FP8 (documented, not active)
Qwen3.6 27B FP8 dankclaw FP8 (documented, not active)

Structure

  • docs/ — Project knowledge base with research notes on vLLM configuration, hardware specifics, speculative decoding, and deployment notes
  • scripts/ — Deployment and launch scripts (deploy.sh, serve-llama-frank-small.sh, serve-ling3-vllm.sh, systemd unit files)

Deployment

See docs/deployment.md for the deploy/update process. Run ./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after pushing committed changes.

Knowledge Base

See docs/index.md for the project knowledge base index.

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