# GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4-Spark — local-inference-lab quant, r12 fork — 2× DGX # Spark, TP=2. The lab's own "DSpark" checkpoint (speculative MTP layers # embedded, no separate draft download). # # local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-Spark (rev 06972cdee7280cec849aedf05a02062b3e870246): # NVFP4 routed experts (layers 3+, group-16) + NVFP4 MTP expert layer in the # separate model-mtp-0000x.safetensors shards (mtp_tokens: 5 per their # lil.yaml), amax/nonexpert/inputscales side shards, Glm5NextForConditionalGeneration. # # Image: glm53-jovian-r12:local (docker-images/glm53-jovian-r12/) — clean # solar-pattern build of the r12 stack: local-inference-lab/vllm # dev/jovian-judgement (base 54f6e98 + PR 550/552/553/554/555/557 by SHA) + # b12x 139e040 + PR 260/267/268/269/270, torch 2.13 cu130, flashinfer 0.6.17. # # Launch flags mirror the lab's lil launcher policy for this family # (local-inference-lab/lil, configs/models/_bases.yaml glm base + lil.yaml): # attention B12X, linear/moe backend b12x, MTP spec with moe_backend b12x, # instanttensor load, block 256, max-num-seqs 8, batched 4096, glm45/glm47 # parsers, mamba-cache-mode align. # # Boot success markers: "Model loading took ~93 GiB" (instanttensor: ~1 min) # → "GPU KV cache size" → "Application startup complete". # # JIT cache: the flashinfer/b12x JIT caches are MOUNTED from # ~/sm121-cache/glm53-jit-121f (see [[extra_mounts]] at the bottom, same # pattern as the dsv4 recipe) — pre-baked on both nodes so boot skips the # ~15 min first-boot JIT (and the nvcc OOM risk; MAX_JOBS=2 stays as guard). # # Test request: chat completions need "chat_template_kwargs":{"reasoning_effort" # :"low"} — omitted/other values select MAX reasoning effort (empty content on # short max_tokens). # # PREREQUISITES: weights cached on both nodes: # ~/dsv4vision-hf is for DeepSeek — for GLM the launcher resolves the repo # from the node's HF cache (NAS hub: 175 GiB) or a local NVMe copy. # hf download local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-Spark engine = "vllm" name = "GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4-Spark (vLLM, 2x Spark, MTP-5)" docker_image = "glm53-jovian-r12:local" # r12 fork build (see docker-images/glm53-jovian-r12) docker_image_dir = "glm53-jovian-r12" # Required: the clean r12 image follows the solar contract (ENTRYPOINT [] # + CMD bash), so the recipe carries the entrypoint (the old day-0-based # r12 image had ["vllm","serve"] baked in, which is why this was absent # until the clean rebuild). entrypoint = ["vllm", "serve"] model = "local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-Spark" required_nodes = 2 tensor_parallel_size = 2 pipeline_parallel_size = 1 distributed_backend = "mp" shm_size = "32gb" args = [ # Stable served name — quant-agnostic (shared across glm53 quants) "--served-model-name", "glm53", "--trust-remote-code", "--distributed-executor-backend", "mp", # GMU is ONLY a startup guardrail here (KV pool is pinned below): 0.90 # demands 109.46 GiB free on GB10's 121.63 GiB, but driver reserve + # page cache routinely leave ~108.5 -> flaky # "Free memory ... less than desired" boot deaths (this was the class # of the old "54-second death"), and post-crash reruns see ~106.6 GiB. # 0.82 = 99.7 GiB, below any realistic dip; does NOT change what gets # allocated (weights ~93 + pinned KV 10 + activations). "--gpu-memory-utilization", "0.82", # Pinned 10 GiB KV (≈1.16M tokens) — GMU sizing has no headroom at # 92.72 GiB weights/node; pinning also keeps warmup off the swap path "--kv-cache-memory-bytes", "10737418240", # No --kv-cache-dtype: let the r12 fork pick its default (the explicit # fp8 / fp8_ds_mla both failed auto-selection on this build). # The GLM5Next model wires the B12X sparse-MLA backend (sm_120/sm_121) # when the global backend is B12X (glm5next/nvidia/attention.py: # _select_sparse_backend); the sm12x auto-priority list never offers it # (FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE_SM120 only supports head 576, not GLM's 512). "--attention-backend", "B12X", # lab loader: instanttensor (0.1.9 is already in the r12 image) — # ~5 min weight load vs ~16 min from NFS; stays in every bisection run "--load-format", "instanttensor", # PERF RUN (2026-09-02): full lab execution engine per lil render # (vllm-node-eugr reference): b12x linear+MoE kernels, mamba state # cache align, no enforce-eager (lab runs CUDA graphs; the enforce-eager # quality bug was day-0-build-specific, r12 is the lab-qualified build). "--linear-backend", "b12x", "--moe-backend", "b12x", "--mamba-cache-mode", "align", "--block-size", "256", "--max-model-len", "524288", "--max-num-seqs", "8", "--max-num-batched-tokens", "4096", "--enable-chunked-prefill", "--async-scheduling", "--enable-prefix-caching", "--disable-custom-all-reduce", # Their proven boot: no flashinfer autotune, no CuTe-DSL warmup "--kernel-config", """ '{"enable_cutedsl_warmup":false,"enable_flashinfer_autotune":false}'""", # lab spec config verbatim (lil render): k=5, moe_backend b12x # (nvfp4->b12x), attention B12X (draft's backend comes from the spec # config, not the global flag — eagle/utils.py _make_eagle_draft_vllm_config) "--speculative-config", """ '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":5,"moe_backend":"b12x","attention_backend":"B12X"}'""", "--language-model-only", "--tool-call-parser", "glm47", "--enable-auto-tool-choice", "--reasoning-parser", "glm45", ] [env] HF_HUB_OFFLINE = "1" # lab INSTANTTENSOR loader knobs (lil render: BACKEND/CONCURRENCY/IO_DEPTH # + the lil.yaml BUFFER_SIZE/CHUNK) INSTANTTENSOR_BACKEND = "BUFFERED" INSTANTTENSOR_CONCURRENCY = "1" INSTANTTENSOR_IO_DEPTH = "3" INSTANTTENSOR_BUFFER_SIZE = "67108864" INSTANTTENSOR_CHUNK_SIZE = "8388608" # FlashInfer JIT guard: if a kernel is missing from the mounted JIT cache it # compiles at boot — 12-way parallel nvcc got OOM-killed (code 137) on GB10's # 121 GB unified while the 93 GB weights + 10 GB KV pin are resident. MAX_JOBS = "2" # NoPE-MLA rope-pad runtime gate (mod baked into the image) VLLM_MLA_NOPE_PAD_ROPE = "1" VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S = "3600" # PERF RUN: lab execution engine (lil render reference) VLLM_USE_AOT_COMPILE = "1" VLLM_USE_STANDALONE_COMPILE = "1" VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER = "1" VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER = "1" VLLM_USE_BREAKABLE_CUDAGRAPH = "0" # NOTE: no VLLM_USE_MEGA_AOT_ARTIFACT — the prebuilt mega-AOT artifact ships # in the lab image, not in ours; the flag would only serialize. PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF = "expandable_segments:True" TORCH_USE_RTLD_GLOBAL = "1" VLLM_NO_USAGE_STATS = "1" # Architecture (aarch64 / sm_121a DGX Spark) TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST = "12.1a" FLASHINFER_CUDA_ARCH_LIST = "12.1f" CUTE_DSL_ARCH = "sm_121a" CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES = "121" OMP_NUM_THREADS = "4" # Pre-baked JIT caches (see header; same pattern as the dsv4 recipe's # ~/.cache/dsv4vision-jit mounts). RW on purpose: flashinfer writes lock # files into the cache. Missing on a node -> first boot JITs (~15 min at # MAX_JOBS=2) and the cache populates for the next boot. # NOTE: extra_mounts stay AFTER args (TOML table headers would swallow the # args array otherwise). [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/sm121-cache/glm53-jit-121f/flashinfer" container = "/root/.cache/flashinfer" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/sm121-cache/glm53-jit-121f/b12x" container = "/root/.cache/b12x"