Measured 2026-08-27/28 on cluster ds4 (dgx3+dgx4, switched fabric), all three
served by sm121 through the launcher, same benchmark invocation:
tool-eval-bench run --base-url http://<head>:30000/v1 --model glm53 \
--seed 42 --hardmode --perf --concurrency 1,2
All three share served name glm53 — clients never changed between runs.
| recipe | quant | quality | points | decode tg t/s (c1) | tg c2 | TTFT | deployability | MTP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
glm53-flash-nvfp4-lab |
local-inference-lab mixed NVFP4/MXFP8-MTP | 89 | 155/174 | 28.4 | 43.4 | 3.9 s | 70 | ✅ k=3, accept len ~2.9–3.5, ~63–83 % |
glm53-flash-nvfp4-redhat |
RedHatAI W4A4 compressed-tensors | 90 | 159/176 | 13.9 | 13.8 | 2.2 s | 67 | ❌ (no MTP weights in checkpoint) |
glm53-flash-nvfp4 |
LibertAIDAI NVFP4-A16 | 88 | 154/176 | 26.2 | 22.7 | 6.3 s | 69 | ✅ k=5 |
(lab scored /174 — TC-53 was excluded from its run as an infrastructure failure (one trial crossed the 120 s request timeout; the scenario runs ~140 s total — harness drops timed-out scenarios from the denominator; had it scored like redhat's 2/2, lab would be 157/176 = 89 — no change). Quality % is comparable. LibertAIDAI is the only variant whose MTP regresses under c2 (26.2→22.7) — lab's k=3 draft scales, LibertAIDAI's k=5 does not.)
Prefill (pp2048) 0.3–1.7 K t/s depending on depth/concurrency — noisy, all three in the same band (NAS load-influenced); decode is the stable discriminator.
| image dir | base | patches |
|---|---|---|
glm53-flash-nvfp4 |
vllm/vllm-openai:glm53-flash-arm64-cu130 | kingjones30 NoPE-MLA mod (4-part, anchor-asserted) |
glm53-flash-nvfp4-lab |
same | + 4 FujitsuPolycom patches (Apache-2.0, see patches/UPSTREAM.md): model.py naming shim, modelopt MTP namespace fix, persistent_topk CC-12.x guards ×2 |
redhat recipe reuses glm53-flash-nvfp4:local (mod is quant-independent) |
Boot markers [quantprobe] layer=RoutedExperts prefix=model.layers.45.mlp.experts
algo=MXFP8 confirm the MTP fix is live; algo=None there = broken load.
262144 booted on the base image; 512K needed three changes (each verified by a real boot that died without it):
--kernel-config {"enable_flashinfer_autotune":false,"enable_cutedsl_warmup":false}
PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True — autotune scratch at
512K shapes OOMs the driver (NVRM NV_ERR_NO_MEMORY _memdescAllocInternal);
the sparse-MLA kernels' non-autotuned fallback is fine (lab proved it).--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 + --block-size 256 (lab's memory shape).launch_persistent_topk ... total_ctas=62
> num_sms*occupancy=48 ... fallback requires >=128KB smem (have 101376),
i.e. exactly what the FujitsuPolycom sparse_attn_indexer(_kpool) CC-12.0
guards fix. Indexer CTAs scale with ctx: 262K fit 48 SMs, 512K needs 62.
The patches are arch-level → safe for the compressed-tensors checkpoint
(quantprobe is a no-op without modelopt; output verified correct).Result: KV pool 1,334,265 tokens / 2.54× @ 524288 (10 GiB pin; lab gets 1,164,369 from the same pin — its MTP speculator reserves memory before KV sizing), ~17 min clean boot, correct greedy output.
Note: an orphaned rank-1 headless worker survives rank-0 death and keeps
the node occupied — always docker rm -f label-filtered leftovers before a
retry serve (or the launcher refuses with "only 1 nodes").
--kv-cache-memory-bytes 10737418240 → KV 1,164,369 tokens / 2.22× @ 512K
(matches upstream to the digit — do NOT switch back to GMU sizing).--rm); re-run was clean twice. Suspected transient (cold imports +
simultaneous launch). If it recurs: re-launch without --rm and keep logs.sm121 serve immediately after sm121 stop can fail with "cluster has only
1 nodes" — occupancy race, nodes not yet released; wait ~10 s and retry.VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S=3600 set); the lab recipe disables it via
--kernel-config per upstream's proven boot.reasoning_effort:"low" still emits a reasoning trace
(budget ≠ 0); max_tokens:48 can yield content: null, finish: length —
use ≥256 for smoke tests.--kernel-config autotune-off to the LibertAIDAI recipe
(boot minutes shorter; redhat now has it, see 512K section — verify before
trusting on LibertAIDAI).RedHatAI/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-FP8-mtp-FP8 = full quant + mtp.safetensors
alongside main weights). Nothing for 5.3-Flash yet (org search 2026-08-28:
only NVFP4 + BF16). If/when GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-mtp-* lands, the recipe
change is: swap model + add --speculative-config (k=3). Cross-grafting
the lab's MXFP8 MTP as an external speculative-config.model draft is
theoretically possible but untested in vLLM — don't chase before the
official drop.