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Frank 8500600d09 frank-primary: swap Dankserver to llama.cpp Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0
The 2026-09-26 same-day cutover that ended the Lucebox DS4.1 detour:
Dankserver's :7770 endpoint is now unsloth llama.cpp (the b11030-mix
prebuilt, ROCm gfx120X, bundled runtime) serving
unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF at Q8_0 — 175.30 GiB across six sha256-
verified split parts — on both Radeon AI PRO R9700s, as a ROOT unit (the
frank-large shape: no container, no generated unit).

The deployed contract:

- Placement law: layer split -ts 1,1 with -ngl 999; the routed experts
  and the 51B-param n-gram (PLE) table are COMPUTED in host RAM via
  -ot exps=CPU,ngram_embeddings=CPU (the x4-pair measurement: streaming
  over PCIe loses at 3.7 t/s, computing in RAM does not care).
  per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU is required by the shared MTP head's
  borrow path (a GPU-resident borrow crashes the draft load).
  mmap stays on; --cache-ram 16384.
- Spec chain draft-mtp,ngram-mod: the shared Q8_0 MTP head
  (mtp-...-shared-Q8_0.gguf, 2,786,568,256 B) at depth 2, with the
  draftless ngram-mod matcher chained behind it — the only legal way to
  layer two spec implementations in one process.
- Vision explicit: --mmproj names the BF16 projector (this build never
  autoloads; a server without it comes up healthy and text-only).
- Reasoning: --reasoning-format deepseek → reasoning_content; the
  Qwen3.8 template's {xhigh, medium, low} reasoning_effort gate folded
  by reasoningEffortMap in models.yml.
- One stream, the model's full 262,144 context; greedy server default
  with Qwen-recommended sampling riding compat.extraBody.

The deployer's deploy_llm_primary is rewritten for the root unit: it
gates every artifact at its declared byte count (stat -c %s, never wc -c
— which read the whole 377 GiB lucebox file for minutes on 2026-09-26),
retires the lucebox user quadlet to dated home trash, waits out port
7770, relinks/enables/restarts the root unit and waits up to 1800 s for
/health. The quadlet-era tree under dankserver/frank-primary/ is
archived (dankserver/.AGENTTRASH/20260926-llamacpp-cutover/ on this
box; git history everywhere else) and its planner mapping replaced by
the scripts/ trio.

Observability flips back to the llamacpp namespace: a frank-primary
Prometheus job at 192.168.0.235:7770 (cross-host LAN — the netavark
published-port quirk that forces host.containers.internal for the two
Dankclaw endpoints is same-host only), the LlmEndpointDown runbook
text, and the dashboard description for three llama.cpp endpoints.

Docs: the new runbook (frank-primary-llamacpp-qwen38-flash-next-q8.md),
RETIRED banners on the lucebox and radiance runbooks and their index
entries, the AGENTS.md fleet section rewritten for the root-unit shape,
and the homepage frank-medium card renamed to frank-primary with the
Q8_0 Flash-Next spec (docs.html #models and the modality note updated:
images on frank-primary and frank-small, audio on frank-small only).

models.yml: the dankserver provider is "llamacpp (dankserver)" serving
frank-primary, contextWindow 262144, maxTokens 65536 (compaction-gap
law: 183,501 + 65,536 <= 262,144), input [text, image].

Suite: 346 green (frank_primary_unit.bats rewritten for the root unit —
16 tests pinning the placement law, the shared-head requirement, the
explicit projector, HIP env hygiene (BIND_HOST, never bare HOST), and
the deployer's byte-count gates; the quadlet-era planner and
changed-tests mappings rewritten for the trio; the observability scrape
test asserts three llamacpp jobs again).

Rollback: the lucebox image (localhost/lucebox-rocm:gfx1201) and the
378 GiB payload stay on the host; the Qwen payload stays fetched, so a
re-swap in either direction is a redeploy, not a refetch.
2026-09-26 19:45:28 -07:00

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[Unit]
Description=unsloth llama.cpp (b11030-mix, ROCm gfx120X) Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0, shared-Q8_0 MTP + ngram-mod spec chain, BF16 vision, 262144 ctx / 1 slot, root systemd unit (dankserver, frank-primary, 2x Radeon AI PRO R9700)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=dank
Group=dank
# The model is mmap'd (175 GiB of expert pages + the 51B-param n-gram
# table live in page cache); an RLIMIT_MEMLOCK smaller than what the
# runtime pins would fail the load mid-start. Parity with the other LLM
# units on this fleet.
LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
Environment="FRANK_PRIMARY_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-primary.env"
ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-primary.sh
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target