# GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4 — RedHatAI quant (vLLM) — 2× DGX Spark, TP=2. # # RedHatAI/LLM-Compressor quant: MoE experts W4A4 NVFP4 (group-16, local # per-group FP8 scales, compressed-tensors nvfp4-pack-quantized). Vision / # embeddings / lm_head kept original precision. Quantizes via regex targets, # so no name-prefix matching bugs. # Model: https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 # (~177 GB → ~88 GB/node on 2 Sparks) # KV: pinned --kv-cache-memory-bytes 10 GiB (same as -lab, identical MLA # geometry) → ~1.16 M-token pool @ fp8_ds_mla = 2.22× concurrency at the # 524288 ctx. GMU 0.90 matches the proven lab config; the pin overrides # GMU-based KV sizing. # # MTP (added 2026-09-05): the checkpoint now ships the MTP drafter as # model_mtp.safetensors (7.6 GB, added to the repo after our 2026-08-28 # index scan that found zero MTP weights) — vendor card section "Enable # Speculative Decoding" recommends k=5. Cost: +~7.6 GB weights/node on top # of the 88 GB base; if the boot dies on free-memory or KV shrinks, drop # the KV pin 10 → 8 GiB. k=3 is the fallback if k=5 regresses quality. # # Image: the -lab overlay (day-0 vLLM image + NoPE-MLA mod + FujitsuPolycom # arch patches). The sparse_attn_indexer CC-12.0 guards are REQUIRED at the # 512K ctx: at 262K the indexer topk fit 48 SMs, at 512K it wants 62 CTAs and # the fallback needs 128 KB smem (GB10 has 99 KB) → hard boot abort # (launch_persistent_topk oversubscribe, 2026-08-28). The patches are # arch-level, not quant-level: the modelopt quantprobe is a no-op for this # compressed-tensors checkpoint, the model.py naming shim anchors on # arch-internal names. # # GB10 gotchas handled (see glm53-flash-nvfp4 header for detail): # --moe-backend marlin → if vLLM rejects marlin for W4A4 at startup (marlin # is mainly W4A16), remove the flag — but then verify output is not # token-loop garbage (the silent FLASHINFER_CUTLASS corruption) before # trusting it; `--moe-backend triton` is the other candidate. # # GB10 gotcha (MEASURED): at 524288 ctx WITH flashinfer autotune on, rank 0 # dies mid-boot on a driver OOM (NVRM NV_ERR_NO_MEMORY _memdescAllocInternal, # 2026-08-28 05:01) — autotune/graph scratch at the 512K verify shapes doesn't # fit the unified-memory headroom. The 262144 ctx + autotune combo booted # fine. Fix = the lab-proven boot: autotune + cutedsl warmup off (a perf # micro-opt only; the sparse-MLA kernels have a non-autotuned fallback) and # expandable_segments to cut fragmentation. # # PREREQUISITES: weights cached on both nodes: # huggingface-cli download RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 # (re-run the download on nodes cached before 2026-09-04: model_mtp.safetensors # 7.6 GB was added to the repo after the initial pulls; HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 means # a missing file is a hard load failure) # # REFERENCE: # https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 (vendor vLLM cmd) # https://github.com/kingjones30/GLM-5.3-Flash-2x-DGX-Spark (mod) engine = "vllm" name = "GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4-redhat (vLLM, 2x Spark, MTP k=5)" docker_image = "glm53-flash-nvfp4-lab:local" docker_image_dir = "glm53-flash-nvfp4-lab" model = "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4" parent_model = "zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash" 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 (and ~106.6 after a crashed boot) # -> flaky "Free memory ... less than desired" boot deaths. 0.82 is # below any realistic dip and does NOT change what gets allocated. "--gpu-memory-utilization", "0.82", "--kv-cache-memory-bytes", "10737418240", "--max-model-len", "524288", # Scan/graph scratch scales with the prefill chunk: 8192 OOMs the driver # at 512K ctx (05:38 NVRM OOM), 4096 is the lab-proven ceiling here. "--max-num-batched-tokens", "4096", "--block-size", "256", "--max-num-seqs", "1", "--kv-cache-dtype", "fp8_ds_mla", "--language-model-only", "--moe-backend", "marlin", # MTP drafter: model_mtp.safetensors in the main repo (vendor card # "Enable Speculative Decoding": k=5; no separate drafter repo needed) "--speculative-config", """ '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":5}'""", "--tool-call-parser", "glm47", "--enable-auto-tool-choice", "--reasoning-parser", "glm45", "--kernel-config", """ '{"enable_cutedsl_warmup":false,"enable_flashinfer_autotune":false}'""", ] [env] HF_HUB_OFFLINE = "1" VLLM_MLA_NOPE_PAD_ROPE = "1" VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S = "3600" TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST = "12.1a" CUTE_DSL_ARCH = "sm_121a" OMP_NUM_THREADS = "4" PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF = "expandable_segments:True" # JIT caches persist per-node across serves (was: cold /root/.cache per # container -> ~20 min flashinfer/torch recompile every serve). The host # dirs are shared between lanes of the same arch — each cache # self-namespaces by its engine version key internally. [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/sm121-cache/jit-121f/flashinfer" container = "/root/.cache/flashinfer" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/sm121-cache/jit-121f/torchinductor" container = "/root/.cache/torchinductor" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/sm121-cache/jit-121f/vllm" container = "/root/.cache/vllm"