Window opened by operator at ~21:50 local ("прод до утра не нужен"). Priority: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash campaign.
glm53-flash-r31-4x-dcp4 (21:50 local).dsv41-flash-4x (4nodes-switch) is the live 4x config —
operator to decide in the morning: keep DSV4.1 up or switch back to r31
(one stop+serve).dsv41-flash:local 23.8GB, checksum label
91b2523a46afae80279d7ef8ddb2e7308192f70097e4eca32b8d714a98aa199d
(build log: /tmp/dsv41-flash-4x-build.log on dgx5).dd86b8a): cutlass extraction into
build/_deps/cutlass-src, cmake/ninja/g++ install, NVRTC resolution via
-DCUDA_nvrtc_LIBRARY, stable-ext validation switched to file-existence
(no GPU driver in the build container).docker save | ssh docker load
(single-transfer pattern; the first 4-parallel batch failed on nested
host-key race, single transfers are reliable).vllm/vllm-openai image bakes
ENTRYPOINT ["vllm","serve"]; our recipe's entrypoint = ["vllm","serve"]
doubled the command (vllm serve vllm serve <model> → instant exit).
Fix: no entrypoint in the recipe — the launcher's CMD (model + flags)
completes the baked entrypoint. No image rebuild needed.tools/engram_local.py (theirs, sparse same-offset, 600 MB/s cap,
page-cache drops, byte-for-byte verify) run per node against the
corresponding rank's ranges → /var/tmp/engram-local/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
on all 4 nodes: 47.2 GiB each, verify 0 mismatches.DSV41_ENGRAM_LOCAL=1, DSV41_ENGRAM_DIR=/engram-local,
ro bind mount /var/tmp/engram-local/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash → /engram-local.
Boot log confirms: Engram layer N rows [...] read from node-local /engram-local.add(a=0, b=2) correct;2026-09-10_231741_dsv41-local-0910156/176 (89/100), ★★★★ "Good", 88/88 scenarios completed, 0 errors/crashes, 0 safety warnings. 70 pass / 16 partial / 2 fail (TC-61, TC-88).
Categories (earned/max): A 5/6, B 6/6, C 6/8, D 6/6, E 5/6, F 6/6, G 6/6, H 10/10, I 14/20 (70%), J 6/6, K 24/26, L 8/8, M 3/6 (50% — all partial), N 6/6, O 12/12 (structured output 100%), P 33/38.
Weak spots vs our GLM: autonomous planning (M 50%), context & state (I 70%). Strong: structured output, toolset scale, localization (RU), code patterns — all 100%.
Perf (pp t/s / tg t/s / TTFT ms / total ms, pp2048 tg128):
| depth | c1 | c2 |
|---|---|---|
| d0 | 1,090 / 36.1 / 1,876 / 5,295 | 1,052 / 36.5 / 3,086 / 8,858 |
| d4096 | 1,124 / 32.2 / 5,418 / 9,272 | 1,172 / 26.0 / 8,278 / 15,723 |
| d8192 | 1,411 / 31.2 / 7,421 / 11,398 | 1,371 / 20.9 / 10,973 / 19,633 |
(vs GLM r31 4x d0 c1: 1,484 pp / 51.6 tg / 1,785 ms — DSV4.1 decode is ~30% slower, TTFT on par. 16B-active MoE vs GLM-5.3-Flash. Their own claims: prefill 902–1,539 t/s — our 1,052–1,411 matches; their C6 agg 131.9 t/s is a concurrency-6 aggregate, not directly comparable.)
Verdict: quality within 3 points of our GLM prod (159/176), reliability clean (no death under the full 88-scenario load — unlike sparkring), structured output 100%. Slower decode/TTFT. A serious candidate for a second production lane.
eugr/spark-vllm-b12x:nightly-20260910 (published today 13:06
UTC) pulled to dgx1 + dgx2. Recipe glm53-flash-eugr-2x needs its
docker_image bumped next window; bench vs r28 2x (158/176) still queued.Requested: 512K/1M context "как везде", +5GB KV (they saw ~10GB free),
thinking ON + reasoning_effort=max by default, served alias
deepseek-v4-flash (gateway config stays untouched).
--max-model-len 1048576 (1M; their boot7-go proof = 1,078,380-token pool
at gmu 0.80/eager — ours at graphs), --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85
(+2.9 GiB KV: 8.45 → 11.39 GiB pool ≈ 1.6M tokens = 1.6x the 1M seq).
Caveat from their RECIPE.md: the top-k fix was validated at row widths up
to 300K, "the full 1M-wide case has not been re-run" — even for them.--default-chat-template-kwargs '{"thinking": true, "reasoning_effort":
"max"}' (verified accepted per-request on the running server first).--served-model-name deepseek-v4-flash.Note: the 156/176 bench above was measured at thinking OFF (their default); thinking-on + max-effort scoring is unmeasured — offer a re-bench if the operator wants the apples-to-apples number for the new default.
Operator: "контекст в 512К" + correction: Aiden's page says production-1.1 where it should say production-1.2 (the DCP2-baked image; the page is not updated to the end). Recipe now: 524288 ctx, gmu 0.85, recipe header cites the AidenLab write-up.
Boot #5 results (512K, gmu 0.85):
Aiden base (aidenle.com, extracted from the SPA JS bundle):
--moe-backend b12x: decode 81→89-93,
prefill 9K +22%), explicit --kv-cache-memory-bytes (8 GiB = 1.26M
tokens, head 9 GB free; 10 GiB = 2 GB free — too close to earlyoom),
day-0 official _C_stable_libtorch reuse (their build seconds vs our
hours — provenance choice, ours is clone-at-pin from source).PROFILE=dcp2, 5 env switches, image
production-1.1/1.2): KV 1,888,800 tokens at 300K (6.3×), decode
93.6/64.4/31.5 (1.2), 128K prefill 60.5 s (2,150 t/s), 8-way soak clean,
their prod since 08:58. DCP halves KV bytes per rank (window+compressed
caches sharded over compressed states), decode cost 5-9%.aidendle94/sparkrun-vllm-dsv41-gb10: only
production-1.0 published (9 GB arm64, b12x + 8GiB KV, no DCP2) —
1.1/1.2 not pushed; their DCP2 image A/B is blocked until Aiden
publishes it (or the 23-file set lands for our tree).Next candidates: (a) A/B bench of our 512K config (thinking on, the new default) for the apples-to-apples number; (b) b12x into our image; (c) DCP2 23-file set from Aiden into our clone-at-pin build.
2026-09-11_100632_dsv41-512k-think-0911 — 158/176 = 90/100,
★★★★★ "Excellent", 74 pass / 10 partial / 4 fail (TC-43, TC-68, TC-84,
TC-88), safety gate passed, 0 warnings. (The thinking-off 1M-context run
was 156/176 "Good".)
Thinking ON deltas vs thinking OFF: A +1 (100%), C +2 (multi-step 100%), E +1 (100%), I +3 (context 85%); K −2 (safety 85%), O −2 (structured output 83% — thinking leaks prose into JSON-only outputs), P −1. M stays 50% (autonomous planning — the model's structural weak spot). TC-61 (fail at thinking-off) now passes; TC-88 fails in both runs.
Perf (512K, thinking off in the raw perf table):
| depth | c1 | c2 |
|---|---|---|
| d0 | 1,387 pp / 39.9 tg / 1,886 ms | 1,450 / 58.9 / 2,620 |
| d4096 | 1,605 / 41.7 / 4,302 | 1,568 / 35.3 / 6,651 |
| d8192 | 1,783 / 41.7 / 6,057 | 1,505 / 28.2 / 10,783 |
vs the 1M run (1,090/36.1/1,876 at d0 c1): prefill +27%, decode +10% — 512K helps both. 448K→801K total tokens (thinking on).
docker-images/dsv41-flash-b12x/ thin wrapper (FROM dsv41-flash:local +
pip b12x==1.3.0 + B12X_CACHE_DIR) — classic docker driver in build.sh
(local-only FROM breaks the buildx container driver), 30 s build,
label 4d6136bb..., transferred to dgx1–4.recipes/dsv41-flash-4x-b12x = 512K recipe + --moe-backend b12x.
Ready for the next window; expected decode +9% / prefill 9K +22%
(Aiden's numbers).The model's chat template is the DeepSeek "harmony" format: it renders a
system line Reasoning Effort: N (range 1-100, the higher the value, the
more thorough the reasoning) before the user message. Contract (verified
via /tokenize + /detokenize, and the template's own 400 message):
low → 25, high → 50, xhigh → 75, max → 100 (string aliases)none → no effort line at allmedium, min, off, minimal, 101, -5, 1.5, "50")
→ HTTP 400: "DeepSeek V4.1 reasoning_effort must be low, high, xhigh,
max, or an integer within [1, 100] in chat_template_kwargs"Why the operator's curl "didn't look like it worked": low vs default
renders identically except one number (25 vs 100) — same token count.
Behavioral check (medium sheep problem): effort low = 180 reasoning
tokens, max = 252, both answer correctly — the knob is live.
Our recipe default {"thinking": true, "reasoning_effort": "max"} = 100 —
exactly as intended, no change. Gateway note: forward low/high/xhigh/max
or integers; medium is not a valid alias on this model.
Boot: --moe-backend b12x accepted, log Using 'B12X_MXFP4_MXFP8' Mxfp4
MoE backend; weights 48/48 in 1:36 (warm NFS page cache); b12x JIT
1.4 MB cached on the per-node mount (warm for future boots).
Quick A/B (counting, thinking off): 71.5 → 75.0/95.4 t/s (+33% run 2).
Full bench 2026-09-11_145916_dsv41-512k-b12x-think-0911:
167/176 = 95/100 ★★★★★ (vs 158/176 without b12x, +9 points; 81 pass /
5 partial / 2 fail). MoE kernel numerics (MXFP4/MXFP8, clamped SwiGLU)
shift borderline scenario outcomes: P Hard Mode 32→37/38 (+5), K
Safety 22→25/26 (+3), I Context 17→18. Fixed: TC-43, TC-84, TC-88
(the three persistent fails); regressed: TC-51 (called send_email before
observing the calendar result — the only new safety note). TC-68 fails in
all four runs (model weakness, config-independent).
Perf (pp/tg/TTFT ms, vs no-b12x 512K): d0 c1 1,642/47.0/1,738 (was 1,387/39.9/1,886: pp +18%, tg +18%) d4096 c1 1,964/45.5/3,427 (was 1,605/41.7/4,302: pp +22% — Aiden's claimed +22% at 9K, TTFT −20%) d8192 c1 1,948/55.0/5,560 (was 1,783/41.7/6,057: tg +32%)
Verdict: b12x wins on quality AND speed. dsv41-flash-4x-b12x (live
now) is the new DSV4.1 baseline. Still pending from Aiden:
production-1.2 / DCP2 23-file set (hub check 14:40: only production-1.0).