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Qwen3.8 on DGX Spark Lab

Qwen3.8 on one DGX Spark

An independent, reproducible serving lab for running Qwen3.8-27B on one NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10.

The reference stack uses a mixed-NVFP4 target, a DFlash2 probabilistic K7 drafter, and an 8.3 MiB native rank-1 PEFT LoRA. One vLLM process exposes both a clean base model ID and a per-request adapter model ID. Requests without the adapter stay on the clean CUDA-graph path, while native LoRA identity isolates prefix-cache entries.

The repository includes:

  • a digest-pinned ARM64 vLLM/DFlash2 Docker build;
  • mixed FP8/NVFP4 output-projection to PEFT-LoRA conversion;
  • clean base and adapter aliases from one server;
  • C1/C8 benchmark harnesses and sanitized JSON results;
  • OpenAI Chat, Responses, and Anthropic Messages validation;
  • forced-tool and prefix-cache-isolation gates;
  • architecture, memory, methodology, and license documentation.

Measured clean-base C1 throughput recovered from 30.32 tok/s under the previous always-on hook to 45.41 tok/s with native LoRA routing. See the full technical article for protocol, limitations, and interpretation.