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Day-zero to day-three coverage of Qwen3.8-27B on the DGX Spark (GB10): recipes and measured numbers for llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM (FP8/NVFP4, with and without MTP), and SGLang (with and without NEXTN speculation).

Includes three sharp-edge findings: the FP8 deep-context concurrency wedge, the MTP hard-reboot at 16K+concurrency (reproduced 2/2), and a stale SGLang container silently generating garbage behind a green health check.

Numbers all trace to llama-benchy/llama-bench runs; Spark Arena submission sub1786754097881. Draft for preview/read-through.

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Preflight against the saved benchmark CSVs turned up a few things:

- Vision section claimed the model read "11.3 t/s" off the chart; the chart
  shows 11.6 (llama.cpp Q4 single stream). Corrected.
- Vision section referenced "the chart you saw above" but sat 30 lines
  before the chart. Moved it after the Ollama section so the callback works.
- Wrapping-up context-flatness bullet mixed engines (8.2 and 7.9 are FP8,
  9.8 is NVFP4). Now all NVFP4: 11.5 -> 10.9 -> 9.8.
- 32K decode drop is 3%, not 4%. Requant delta is within 4%, not 3%, and
  only the NVFP4 revision has a saved re-run, so the GGUF claim is dropped.
- Test environment paragraph is now a table (unreadable on mobile as prose),
  and it names the Aug 17 runs that produced the MTP/SGLang/DSpark numbers.
- qwen3_5 architecture explanation appeared three times; the causal version
  now lands once and llama-bench keeps only the observation.
- 121GB vs 128GB contradiction reworded; added the bandwidth-ceiling
  arithmetic so 11.6 t/s reads as ~70% of peak rather than "close to" it.
- New light-theme cover reflecting the finished post (4 engines, 105.8 t/s
  peak aggregate) instead of the day-zero-only framing.
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