GLM-5/GLM-5.1

GLM-5/GLM-5.1#

Introduction#

This document applies to both GLM-5 and GLM-5.1. Unless otherwise specified, all descriptions, configurations, and deployment procedures for GLM-5 in this document also apply to GLM-5.1. For brevity, GLM-5 is used hereafter as a unified reference to both GLM-5 and GLM-5.1.

GLM-5 use a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and targets complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks.

The GLM-5 model is first supported in vllm-ascend:v0.17.0rc1. The version of transformers need to be upgraded to 5.2.0.

This document will show the main verification steps of the model, including supported features, feature configuration, environment preparation, single-node and multi-node deployment, accuracy and performance evaluation.

Supported Features#

Refer to supported features to get the model’s supported feature matrix.

Refer to feature guide to get the feature’s configuration.

Environment Preparation#

Model Weight#

GLM-5(BF16 version): Download model weight.
GLM-5-w4a8: Download model weight.
GLM-5-w8a8: Download model weight.
GLM-5.1(BF16 version): Download model weight.
GLM-5.1-w4a8: Download model weight.
GLM-5.1-w8a8: Download model weight.
You can use msmodelslim to quantify the model naively.

It is recommended to download the model weight to the shared directory of multiple nodes, such as /root/.cache/

Installation#

You can use our official docker image to run GLM-5 directly.

A3 series

Start the docker image on your each node.

export IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.20.2rc1-a3
export NAME=vllm-ascend

# Run the container using the defined variables
# Note: If you are running bridge network with docker, please expose available ports for multiple nodes communication in advance
docker run --rm \
--name $NAME \
--net=host \
--shm-size=1g \
--device /dev/davinci0 \
--device /dev/davinci1 \
--device /dev/davinci2 \
--device /dev/davinci3 \
--device /dev/davinci4 \
--device /dev/davinci5 \
--device /dev/davinci6 \
--device /dev/davinci7 \
--device /dev/davinci8 \
--device /dev/davinci9 \
--device /dev/davinci10 \
--device /dev/davinci11 \
--device /dev/davinci12 \
--device /dev/davinci13 \
--device /dev/davinci14 \
--device /dev/davinci15 \
--device /dev/davinci_manager \
--device /dev/devmm_svm \
--device /dev/hisi_hdc \
-v /usr/local/dcmi:/usr/local/dcmi \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool \
-v /usr/local/bin/npu-smi:/usr/local/bin/npu-smi \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
-v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
-v /root/.cache:/root/.cache \
-it $IMAGE bash

A2 series

Start the docker image on your each node.

export IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.20.2rc1
docker run --rm \
    --name vllm-ascend \
    --shm-size=1g \
    --net=host \
    --device /dev/davinci0 \
    --device /dev/davinci1 \
    --device /dev/davinci2 \
    --device /dev/davinci3 \
    --device /dev/davinci4 \
    --device /dev/davinci5 \
    --device /dev/davinci6 \
    --device /dev/davinci7 \
    --device /dev/davinci_manager \
    --device /dev/devmm_svm \
    --device /dev/hisi_hdc \
    -v /usr/local/dcmi:/usr/local/dcmi \
    -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool \
    -v /usr/local/bin/npu-smi:/usr/local/bin/npu-smi \
    -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
    -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
    -v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
    -v /root/.cache:/root/.cache \
    -it $IMAGE bash

In addition, if you don’t want to use the docker image as above, you can also build all from source:

Install vllm-ascend from source, refer to installation.

If you want to deploy multi-node environment, you need to set up environment on each node.

Deployment#

Single-node Deployment#

A3 series

Quantized model glm-5-w4a8 can be deployed on 1 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16) .

Run the following script to execute online inference.

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-w4a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 1 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--max-num-seqs 8 \
--max-model-len 200000 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--quantization ascend \
--enable-chunked-prefill \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}' 

Quantized model glm-5-w8a8 can be deployed on 1 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16) .

Run the following script to execute online inference.

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-w8a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 1 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--max-num-seqs 8 \
--max-model-len 40960 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--quantization ascend \
--enable-chunked-prefill \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}' 

A2 series

Quantized model glm-5-w4a8 can be deployed on 1 Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) .

Run the following script to execute online inference.

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM-5-w4a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 1 \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--max-num-seqs 2 \
--max-model-len 32768 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--quantization ascend \
--enable-chunked-prefill \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

Notice: The parameters are explained as follows:

For single-node deployment, we recommend using dp1tp16 and turn off expert parallel in low-latency scenarios.

Multi-node Deployment#

If you want to deploy multi-node environment, you need to verify multi-node communication according to verify multi-node communication environment.

A3 series

glm-5-bf16: require at least 2 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16).

Run the following scripts on two nodes respectively.

node 0

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-bf16 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 12890 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 16 \
--max-model-len 8192 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

node 1

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-bf16 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--headless \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-start-rank 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 12890 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 16 \
--max-model-len 8192 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

A2 series

Run the following scripts on two nodes respectively.

node 0

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM-5-w4a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 13389 \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--quantization ascend \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 2 \
--max-model-len 131072 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

node 1

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM-5-w4a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--headless \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-start-rank 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 13389 \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--quantization ascend \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 2 \
--max-model-len 131072 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

For bf16 weight, use this script on each node to enable Multi Token Prediction (MTP).

python adjust_weight.py "path_of_bf16_weight"

# adjust_weight.py
from safetensors.torch import safe_open, save_file
import torch
import json
import os
import sys

target_keys = ["model.embed_tokens.weight", "lm_head.weight"]

def get_tensor_info(file_path):
   with safe_open(file_path, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
         tensor_names = f.keys()
         tensor_dict = {}
         for name in tensor_names:
            tensor = f.get_tensor(name)
            tensor_dict[name] = tensor
         return tensor_dict


if __name__ == "__main__":
   directory_path = sys.argv[1]
   json_name = "model.safetensors.index.json"
   json_path = os.path.join(directory_path, json_name)
   with open(json_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         json_data = json.load(f)
   weight_map = json_data.get('weight_map', {})
   file_list = []
   for key in target_keys:
         safetensor_file = weight_map.get(key)
         file_list.append(directory_path + safetensor_file)

   new_dict = {}
   for file_path in file_list:
         tensor_dict = get_tensor_info(file_path)
         for key in target_keys:
            if key in tensor_dict:
               if key == "model.embed_tokens.weight":
                     new_key = "model.layers.78.embed_tokens.weight"
               elif key == "lm_head.weight":
                     new_key = "model.layers.78.shared_head.head.weight"
               new_dict[new_key] = tensor_dict[key]

   new_file_name = os.path.join(directory_path, "mtp-others.safetensors")
   new_keys = ["model.layers.78.embed_tokens.weight", "model.layers.78.shared_head.head.weight"]
   save_file(tensors=new_dict, filename=new_file_name)
   for key in new_keys:
         json_data["weight_map"][key] = "mtp-others.safetensors"
   with open(json_path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         json.dump(json_data, f, indent=2)

A3 series

glm-5-w8a8: require 2 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16).

Run the following scripts on two nodes respectively.

node 0

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-w8a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 12890 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 16 \
--max-model-len 200000 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--quantization ascend \
--enable-chunked-prefill \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

node 1

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxx"
local_ip="xxx"

# The value of node0_ip must be consistent with the value of local_ip set in node0 (master node)
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=200
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_BALANCE_SCHEDULING=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/GLM5-w8a8 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8077 \
--headless \
--data-parallel-size 2 \
--data-parallel-size-local 1 \
--data-parallel-start-rank 1 \
--data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
--data-parallel-rpc-port 12890 \
--tensor-parallel-size 16 \
--seed 1024 \
--served-model-name glm-5 \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--max-num-seqs 16 \
--max-model-len 200000 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
--trust-remote-code \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
--quantization ascend \
--enable-chunked-prefill \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
--additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
--speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method": "deepseek_mtp"}'

Prefill-Decode Disaggregation#

We’d like to show the deployment guide of GLM-5 on multi-node environment with 1P1D for better performance.

Before you start, please

prepare the script launch_online_dp.py on each node:

import argparse
import multiprocessing
import os
import subprocess
import sys

def parse_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dp-size",
        type=int,
        required=True,
        help="Data parallel size."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--tp-size",
        type=int,
        default=1,
        help="Tensor parallel size."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dp-size-local",
        type=int,
        default=-1,
        help="Local data parallel size."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dp-rank-start",
        type=int,
        default=0,
        help="Starting rank for data parallel."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dp-address",
        type=str,
        required=True,
        help="IP address for data parallel master node."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dp-rpc-port",
        type=str,
        default=12345,
        help="Port for data parallel master node."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--vllm-start-port",
        type=int,
        default=9000,
        help="Starting port for the engine."
    )
    return parser.parse_args()

args = parse_args()
dp_size = args.dp_size
tp_size = args.tp_size
dp_size_local = args.dp_size_local
if dp_size_local == -1:
    dp_size_local = dp_size
dp_rank_start = args.dp_rank_start
dp_address = args.dp_address
dp_rpc_port = args.dp_rpc_port
vllm_start_port = args.vllm_start_port

def run_command(visible_devices, dp_rank, vllm_engine_port):
    command = [
        "bash",
        "./run_dp_template.sh",
        visible_devices,
        str(vllm_engine_port),
        str(dp_size),
        str(dp_rank),
        dp_address,
        dp_rpc_port,
        str(tp_size),
    ]
    subprocess.run(command, check=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    template_path = "./run_dp_template.sh"
    if not os.path.exists(template_path):
        print(f"Template file {template_path} does not exist.")
        sys.exit(1)

    processes = []
    num_cards = dp_size_local * tp_size
    for i in range(dp_size_local):
        dp_rank = dp_rank_start + i
        vllm_engine_port = vllm_start_port + i
        visible_devices = ",".join(str(x) for x in range(i * tp_size, (i + 1) * tp_size))
        process = multiprocessing.Process(target=run_command,
                                        args=(visible_devices, dp_rank,
                                                vllm_engine_port))
        processes.append(process)
        process.start()

    for process in processes:
        process.join()

prepare the script run_dp_template.sh on each node.

To support a 200k context window on the stage of prefill, the parameter "layer_sharding": ["q_b_proj"] needs to be added to --additional_config on each prefill node.

Prefill node 0

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name

export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256

export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480

export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1
  
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 131072 \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 64 \
    --enable-chunked-prefill \
    --quantization ascend \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
    --enforce-eager \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_producer",
    "kv_port": "30000",
    "engine_id": "0",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Prefill node 1

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name

export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256

export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480

export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1

export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3, "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 131072 \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 64 \
    --enable-chunked-prefill \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
    --quantization ascend \
    --enforce-eager \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_producer",
    "kv_port": "30000",
    "engine_id": "0",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Decode node 0

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip

export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name

#Mooncake
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1

export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256


export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480

export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1

export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
  
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3,  "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 200000 \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 32 \
    --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY", "cudagraph_capture_sizes":[4, 8, 12, 16,20,24,28, 32]}' \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 8 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
    --quantization ascend \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
    "kv_port": "30100",
    "engine_id": "1",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Decode node 1

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip
   
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
   
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
   
#Mooncake
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
   
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256
   
export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480
   
export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
   
export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
            
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
   
vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3,  "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 200000 \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 32 \
    --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY", "cudagraph_capture_sizes":[4, 8, 12, 16,20,24,28, 32]}' \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 8 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
    --quantization ascend \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
    "kv_port": "30100",
    "engine_id": "1",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Decode node 2

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip
   
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
   
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
   
#Mooncake
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
   
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256
   
export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480
   
export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
   
export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
            
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
   
vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3,  "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 200000 \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 32 \
    --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY", "cudagraph_capture_sizes":[4, 8, 12, 16,20,24,28, 32]}' \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 8 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
    --quantization ascend \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
    "kv_port": "30100",
    "engine_id": "1",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Decode node 3

nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
local_ip="xxxx" # change to your own ip
   
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
   
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
   
#Mooncake
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
   
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=256
   
export ASCEND_AGGREGATE_ENABLE=1
export ASCEND_TRANSPORT_PRINT=1
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export ASCEND_A3_ENABLE=1
# Timeout (in seconds) for automatically releasing the prefiller’s KV cache for a particular request.
export VLLM_MOONCAKE_ABORT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=480
   
export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
   
export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
            
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
   
vllm serve /root/.cache/glm5-w8a8 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port $2 \
    --data-parallel-size $3 \
    --data-parallel-rank $4 \
    --data-parallel-address $5 \
    --data-parallel-rpc-port $6 \
    --tensor-parallel-size $7 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 3,  "method":"deepseek_mtp"}' \
    --profiler-config \
    '{"profiler": "torch",
    "torch_profiler_dir": "./vllm_profile",
    "torch_profiler_with_stack": false}' \
    --seed 1024 \
    --served-model-name glm-5 \
    --max-model-len 200000 \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 32 \
    --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY", "cudagraph_capture_sizes":[4, 8, 12, 16,20,24,28, 32]}' \
    --additional-config '{"fuse_muls_add": true, "multistream_overlap_shared_expert": true, "recompute_scheduler_enable": true, "ascend_compilation_config": {"enable_npugraph_ex": true}}' \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --max-num-seqs 8 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
    --quantization ascend \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser glm47 \
    --reasoning-parser glm45 \
    --kv-transfer-config \
    '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeConnectorV1",
    "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
    "kv_port": "30100",
    "engine_id": "1",
    "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                "use_ascend_direct": true,
                "prefill": {
                        "dp_size": 2,
                        "tp_size": 16
                },
                "decode": {
                        "dp_size": 16,
                        "tp_size": 4
                }
        }
    }'

Once the preparation is done, you can start the server with the following command on each node:

Prefill node 0

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 2 --tp-size 16 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 0 --dp-address $node_p0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10521 --vllm-start-port 6700

Prefill node 1

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 2 --tp-size 16 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 1 --dp-address $node_p0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10521 --vllm-start-port 6700

Decode node 0

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 4 --dp-rank-start 0 --dp-address $node_d0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10523 --vllm-start-port 6721

Decode node 1

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 4 --dp-rank-start 4 --dp-address $node_d0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10523 --vllm-start-port 6721

Decode node 2

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 4 --dp-rank-start 8 --dp-address $node_d0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10523 --vllm-start-port 6721

Decode node 3

# change ip to your own
python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 4 --dp-rank-start 12 --dp-address $node_d0_ip --dp-rpc-port 10523 --vllm-start-port 6721

Request Forwarding#

To set up request forwarding, run the following script on any machine. You can get the proxy program in the repository’s examples: load_balance_proxy_server_example.py

unset http_proxy
unset https_proxy

python load_balance_proxy_server_example.py \
    --port 8000 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --prefiller-hosts \
       $node_p0_ip \
       $node_p1_ip \
    --prefiller-ports \
       6700 \
       6700 \
    --decoder-hosts \
      $node_d0_ip \
      $node_d0_ip \
      $node_d0_ip \
      $node_d0_ip \
      $node_d1_ip \
      $node_d1_ip \
      $node_d1_ip \
      $node_d1_ip \
      $node_d2_ip \
      $node_d2_ip \
      $node_d2_ip \
      $node_d2_ip \
      $node_d3_ip \
      $node_d3_ip \
      $node_d3_ip \
      $node_d3_ip \
    --decoder-ports \
      6721 6722 6723 6724 \
      6721 6722 6723 6724 \
      6721 6722 6723 6724 \
      6721 6722 6723 6724      

Notice:

Some configurations for optimization are shown below:

VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1: Enable FlashComm optimization to reduce communication and computation overhead on prefill node. With FlashComm enabled, layer_sharding list cannot include o_proj as an element.
VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2: Enable following fused operators: dispatch_gmm_combine_decode and dispatch_ffn_combine operator.
VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO: Enable fused operator MlaPreprocessOperation.

Please refer to the following python file for further explanation and restrictions of the environment variables above: envs.py

Functional Verification#

Once your server is started, you can query the model with input prompts:

curl http://<node0_ip>:<port>/v1/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "glm-5",
        "prompt": "The future of AI is",
        "max_completion_tokens": 50,
        "temperature": 0
    }'

Accuracy Evaluation#

Here are two accuracy evaluation methods.

Using AISBench#

Refer to Using AISBench for details.
After execution, you can get the result.

Using Language Model Evaluation Harness#

Not tested yet.

Performance#

Using AISBench#

Refer to Using AISBench for performance evaluation for details.

Using vLLM Benchmark#

Refer to vllm benchmark for more details.

Best Practices#

In this chapter, we recommend best practices in prefill-decode disaggregation scenario with 1P1D architecture using 4 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16):

Low-latency: We recommend setting dp4 tp8 on prefill nodes and dp4 tp8 on decode nodes for low latency situation.
High-throughput: dp4 tp8 on prefill nodes and dp8 tp4 on decode nodes is recommended for high throughput situation.

Notice: max-model-len and max-num-seqs need to be set according to the actual usage scenario. For other settings, please refer to the Deployment chapter.

FAQ#

Q: How to solve ValueError: Tokenizer class TokenizersBackend does not exist or is not currently imported?

A: Please update the version of transformers to 5.2.0
Q: How to enable function calling for GLM-5?

A: Please add following configurations in vLLM startup command
```
--tool-call-parser glm47 \
--reasoning-parser glm45 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice \
```

GLM-5/GLM-5.1

Contents

GLM-5/GLM-5.1#

Introduction#

Supported Features#

Environment Preparation#

Model Weight#

Installation#

Deployment#

Single-node Deployment#

Multi-node Deployment#

Prefill-Decode Disaggregation#

Request Forwarding#

Functional Verification#

Accuracy Evaluation#

Using AISBench#

Using Language Model Evaluation Harness#

Performance#

Using AISBench#

Using vLLM Benchmark#

Best Practices#

FAQ#