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    Should we swap our 4x Spark DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash lane for spark-ds41f?

    Calendar October 26, 2026
    Deepseek, Dgx-Spark, Vllm, Sglang, Benchmarks, Switchless
    spark-ds41f is the best-engineered DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash recipe in the DGX Spark community and lands within about 10% of our 4-node SGLang ring lane on decode, but its 2-3x KV-cache edge is welded to a 64 KiB-page kernel and a non-NCCL transport that would break our three-lane switching contract. Verdict: keep our vehicle, steal their benchmark methodology.
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