Tag: inference benchmark
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Four DGX Sparks: The Profile Day One Only Configured Now Boots, Serves and Passes a Million-Token Needle Test
by Chris DePuy / September 14, 2026 Late Sunday evening Pacific time, Mia AI Lab pushed a four-rank serving profile for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash to its DGX Spark recipe, the same lab whose September 13 post on X put the model on four DGX Sparks and invited readers to run the stack themselves. The significance is not…
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GLM-5.3-Flash on a Single DGX Spark: Three Community Quantizations Fit Where the Vendor’s Does Not
by Chris DePuy / September 13, 2026 On September 9, NVIDIA published an official NVFP4 quantization of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash. Its Model Optimizer recipe leaves the key-value cache at FP8 and compresses only the linear layers inside the transformer blocks — the sparse-MoE shared experts and the dense MLP — from 16 bits down to 4,…
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Day One on Three and Four Sparks: Community Recipes Put DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on the Desk
by Chris DePuy / September 12, 2026 On September 10, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a 552-billion-parameter backbone and a context window of one million tokens. The launch kits for NVIDIA’s desk-side DGX Spark machines arrived the same day: a four-machine stack on vLLM was serving requests by 9:17 Eastern time, roughly…