DeepSeek-V4-Pro#

1 Introduction#

DeepSeek-V4 introduces several key upgrades over DeepSeek-V3:

  • The Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC) to strengthen conventional residual connections.

  • A hybrid attention architecture, which greatly improves long-context efficiency through Compress-4-Attention and Compress-128-Attention. For the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) components, it still adopts the DeepSeekMoE architecture, with only minor adjustments.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro, the maximum reasoning effort mode of DeepSeek-V4, significantly advances the knowledge capabilities of open-source models, firmly establishing itself as the best open-source model available today. It achieves top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and significantly bridges the gap with leading closed-source models on reasoning and agentic tasks.

本文档将展示该模型的主要验证步骤,包括支持特性、特性配置、环境准备、单节点和多节点部署、精度及性能评估。

Note: Please replace the version placeholder above with your actual validation version.

2 Supported Features#

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

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

3 Prerequisites#

3.1 Model Weight#

  • DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp (Quantized version): requires 2 Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8) nodes or 4 Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) nodes. Download model weight

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

3.2 Verify Multi-node Communication (Optional)#

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

4 Installation#

4.1 Docker Image Installation#

Select an image based on your machine type and start the docker image on your node, refer to using docker.

Start the docker image on each node.

export IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.21.0rc1-a3
docker run --rm \
    --name vllm-ascend \
    --shm-size=512g \
    --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/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 /etc/hccn.conf:/etc/hccn.conf \
    -it $IMAGE bash

Start the docker image on each node.

export IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.21.0rc1
docker run --rm \
    --name vllm-ascend \
    --shm-size=512g \
    --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 /etc/hccn.conf:/etc/hccn.conf \
    -it $IMAGE bash

After a successful docker run, you can verify the running container service by executing the docker ps command.

4.2 Source Code Installation#

If you don't want to use the docker image as above, you can also build all from source:

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

5 Online Service Deployment#

备注

在本教程中,我们假设您已将模型权重下载到/root/.cache/。您可以根据需要更改路径。

5.1 Multi-Node Online Deployment#

The quantized model DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp requires at least 2 Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8) nodes or 4 Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) nodes. Run the following scripts on each node respectively.

Node0

local_ip="xxx"
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export IFNAME="xxx"
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=512
export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7

export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S=3600
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD

export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=7200
export ASCEND_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=10000
export ASCEND_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT=10000
export VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=1800000

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 10010 \
  --max-model-len 135000 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --served-model-name dsv4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 1 \
  --data-parallel-start-rank 0 \
  --data-parallel-address $node0_ip  \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --quantization ascend \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
  --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --async-scheduling \
  --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
  --block-size 128 \
  --speculative-config '{
     "num_speculative_tokens": 1,
     "method": "mtp",
     "enforce_eager": true
  }' \
  --additional-config '{
     "ascend_compilation_config":{
        "enable_npugraph_ex":true,
        "enable_static_kernel":false
     },
     "enable_cpu_binding": true,
     "enable_shared_expert_dp": true,
     "multistream_overlap_shared_expert":true
  }' \
  --compilation-config '{
     "cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"
  }' \
  --model-loader-extra-config '{
     "enable_multithread_load": "true",
     "num_threads": 128
  }'

Node1-Node3

local_ip="xxx"
node0_ip="xxxx"

export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export IFNAME="xxx"
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME="$IFNAME"
export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=512
export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7

export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export ACL_OP_INIT_MODE=1
export VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S=3600
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"

export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD

export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=7200
export ASCEND_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=10000
export ASCEND_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT=10000
export VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=1800000

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 10010 \
  --max-model-len 135000 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --served-model-name dsv4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 1 \
  --data-parallel-start-rank 1 \
  --data-parallel-address $node0_ip  \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --quantization ascend \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
  --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --async-scheduling \
  --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
  --block-size 128 \
  --headless \
  --speculative-config '{
     "num_speculative_tokens": 1,
     "method": "mtp",
     "enforce_eager": true
  }' \
  --additional-config '{
     "ascend_compilation_config":{
        "enable_npugraph_ex":true,
        "enable_static_kernel":false
     },
     "enable_cpu_binding": true,
     "enable_shared_expert_dp": true,
     "multistream_overlap_shared_expert":true
  }' \
  --compilation-config '{
     "cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"
  }' \
  --model-loader-extra-config '{
     "enable_multithread_load": "true",
     "num_threads": 128
  }'

Node0

# 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 HCCL_BUFFSIZE=2048
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
  --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
  --max-model-len 135000  \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --served-model-name dsv4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --max-num-seqs 32 \
  --data-parallel-size 2 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 1 \
  --data-parallel-start-rank 0 \
  --data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
  --data-parallel-rpc-port 13399 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 16 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --quantization ascend \
  --port 8900 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --block-size 128 \
  --async-scheduling \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
  --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
  --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1,"method": "mtp","enforce_eager": true}' \
  --additional-config '
    {"ascend_compilation_config":{
        "enable_npugraph_ex":true,
        "enable_static_kernel":false
        },
    "enable_cpu_binding": true,
    "multistream_overlap_shared_expert":true}'

Node1

# 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 HCCL_BUFFSIZE=2048
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1

vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
  --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
  --max-model-len 135000  \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --served-model-name dsv4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --max-num-seqs 32 \
  --data-parallel-size 2 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 1 \
  --data-parallel-start-rank 1 \
  --data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
  --data-parallel-rpc-port 13399 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 16 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --quantization ascend \
  --port 8900 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --block-size 128 \
  --async-scheduling \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
  --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
  --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
  --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1,"method": "mtp","enforce_eager": true}' \
  --additional-config '
    {"ascend_compilation_config":{
        "enable_npugraph_ex":true,
        "enable_static_kernel":false
        },
    "enable_cpu_binding": true,
    "multistream_overlap_shared_expert":true}'

Key Parameter Descriptions:

  • --data-parallel-start-rank specifies the starting data parallel rank of the current node. Each node must be set to a unique value (e.g., Node0 = 0, Node1 = 1).

  • --data-parallel-address specifies the IP address of the data parallel master node (Node0). It must be consistent across all nodes.

  • --headless (used on non-master nodes) disables the API server on the node, since only the master node serves requests.

  • --max-model-len specifies the maximum context length. Adjust it according to your actual scenario.

  • --speculative-config configures the MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) speculative decoding to accelerate inference.

  • --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' enables full ACL graph execution in the decode phase to reduce scheduling latency.

  • --async-scheduling enables asynchronous scheduling to overlap CPU scheduling with NPU computation.

  • VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1 enables the FlashComm communication optimization.

Common Issues Tip: If you encounter issues, please refer to the Public FAQ for troubleshooting.

Service Verification:

curl http://<node0_ip>:8900/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "dsv4",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Who are you?"
            }
        ],
        "max_tokens": 256,
        "temperature": 0
    }'

Expected Result:

The service returns HTTP 200 OK with a JSON response containing the choices field.

5.2 Multi-Node PD Separation Deployment#

We recommend using Mooncake for deployment: Mooncake.

In the standard deployment mode, Prefill (prompt processing) and Decode (token generation) tasks run on the same set of NPUs. PD (Prefill-Decode) separation addresses this by running Prefill and Decode on dedicated node groups, each configured independently. This architecture is recommended for production deployments with concurrent multi-user workloads, where stable latency and high throughput are both required.

The following sections describe PD separation deployment on both Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8) and Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) multi-node environments.

5.2.1 A3 Series PD Separation Deployment#

This section shows the deployment guide of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8) multi-node environment with 1P1D for better performance.

Before you start, please:

  1. 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()
    

    Parameter descriptions:

    Parameter

    Type

    Required

    Default

    Description

    --dp-size

    int

    Yes

    -

    Data parallel size (total number of DP ranks across all nodes).

    --tp-size

    int

    No

    1

    Tensor parallel size within each DP rank.

    --dp-size-local

    int

    No

    (same as --dp-size)

    Number of DP ranks on the current node. If not set, defaults to --dp-size.

    --dp-rank-start

    int

    No

    0

    Starting rank offset for data parallel ranks on this node.

    --dp-address

    str

    Yes

    -

    IP address of the data parallel master node.

    --dp-rpc-port

    str

    No

    12345

    RPC port for data parallel master communication.

    --vllm-start-port

    int

    No

    9000

    Starting port for each vLLM engine instance on this node.

  2. Prepare the script run_dp_template.sh on each node.

    1. 预填充节点0

      nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
      local_ip=xx.xx.xx.1 # 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 VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=3600000
      export VLLM_EXECUTE_MODEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30000
      export HCCL_EXEC_TIMEOUT=204
      export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=120
      export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
      export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
      export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
      export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=1024
      export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
      export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
      export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
      export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
      export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1
      
      vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
          --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 \
          --seed 1024 \
          --served-model-name auto \
          --max-model-len 131072 \
          --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
          --max-num-seqs 16 \
          --no-disable-hybrid-kv-cache-manager \
          --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
          --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enable-auto-tool-choice \
          --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
          --model-loader-extra-config='{"enable_multithread_load": "true", "num_threads": 128}' \
          --trust-remote-code \
          --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
          --quantization ascend \
          --block-size 128 \
          --enforce-eager \
          --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1,"method": "mtp","enforce_eager": true}' \
          --additional-config '{"enable_cpu_binding": true, "enable_dsa_cp": true}' \
          --kv-transfer-config \
          '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeHybridConnector",
          "kv_role": "kv_producer",
          "kv_port": "30200",
          "engine_id": "1",
          "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                      "prefill": {
                              "dp_size": 2,
                              "tp_size": 16
                      },
                      "decode": {
                              "dp_size": 16,
                              "tp_size": 2
                      }
              }
          }'
      
    2. 预填充节点1

      nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
      local_ip=xx.xx.xx.2 # 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 VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=3600000
      export VLLM_EXECUTE_MODEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30000
      export HCCL_EXEC_TIMEOUT=204
      export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=120
      export OMP_PROC_BIND=false
      export OMP_NUM_THREADS=10
      export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
      export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=1024
      export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
      export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
      export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
      export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1
      export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1
      
      vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
          --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 \
          --seed 1024 \
          --served-model-name auto \
          --max-model-len 131072 \
          --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
          --max-num-seqs 16 \
          --no-disable-hybrid-kv-cache-manager \
          --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
          --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enable-auto-tool-choice \
          --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
          --model-loader-extra-config='{"enable_multithread_load": "true", "num_threads": 128}' \
          --trust-remote-code \
          --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
          --quantization ascend \
          --block-size 128 \
          --enforce-eager \
          --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1,"method": "mtp","enforce_eager": true}' \
          --additional-config '{"enable_cpu_binding": true, "enable_dsa_cp": true}' \
          --kv-transfer-config \
          '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeHybridConnector",
          "kv_role": "kv_producer",
          "kv_port": "30200",
          "engine_id": "1",
          "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                      "prefill": {
                              "dp_size": 2,
                              "tp_size": 16
                      },
                      "decode": {
                              "dp_size": 16,
                              "tp_size": 2
                      }
              }
          }'
      
    3. 解码节点(与另一个D节点相同)

      nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
      local_ip=xx.xx.xx.3/4 # change to your own ip
      
      export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
      export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
      export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
      export VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=3600000
      export VLLM_EXECUTE_MODEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30000
      export HCCL_EXEC_TIMEOUT=2000
      export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=1200
      export HCCL_IF_IP=$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=10
      export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
      export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=1024
      export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
      
      vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
          --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 \
          --seed 1024 \
          --served-model-name auto \
          --max-model-len 131072 \
          --max-num-batched-tokens 120 \
          --max-num-seqs 60 \
          --async-scheduling \
          --block-size 128 \
          --no-enable-prefix-caching \
          --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
          --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enable-auto-tool-choice \
          --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --no-disable-hybrid-kv-cache-manager \
          --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
          --model-loader-extra-config='{"enable_multithread_load": "true", "num_threads": 128}' \
          --trust-remote-code \
          --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
          --quantization ascend \
          --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1, "method":"mtp", "enforce_eager": true}' \
          --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
          --kv-transfer-config \
          '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeHybridConnector",
          "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
          "kv_port": "30800",
          "engine_id": "8",
          "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                      "prefill": {
                              "dp_size": 2,
                              "tp_size": 16
                      },
                      "decode": {
                              "dp_size": 16,
                              "tp_size": 2
                      }
              }
          }' \
          --additional-config '{
              "ascend_compilation_config":{
                  "enable_npugraph_ex":true,
                  "enable_static_kernel":false
              },
          "enable_cpu_binding":true,
          "recompute_scheduler_enable":true
          }'
      
  3. Start the server with the following command on each node.

    1. 预填充节点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 xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    2. 预填充节点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 xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    3. 解码节点0

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 2 --dp-size-local 8 --dp-rank-start 0 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.3 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    4. 解码节点1

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 16 --tp-size 2 --dp-size-local 8 --dp-rank-start 8 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.3 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
  4. Deploy the P-D disaggregation proxy.

    Refer to Prefill-Decode Disaggregation (Deepseek) to deploy the P-D disaggregation proxy.

5.2.2 A2 Series PD Separation Deployment#

This section shows the deployment guide of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) multi-node environment with 1P1D for better performance.

Before you start, please:

  1. 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()
    
  2. Prepare the script run_dp_template.sh on each node.

    1. Prefill node (4 P nodes share the same script)

      nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
      local_ip=xx.xx.xx.1/2/3/4 # change to your own ip
      
      export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
      export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
      export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
      
      export VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=3600000
      export VLLM_EXECUTE_MODEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30000
      export HCCL_EXEC_TIMEOUT=204
      export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=1200
      
      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=10
      export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
      export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=1024
      
      sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0
      sysctl -w kernel.numa_balancing=0
      sysctl kernel.sched_migration_cost_ns=50000
      
      export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1
      export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
      
      vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
          --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 \
          --seed 1024 \
          --served-model-name dsv4 \
          --max-model-len 133072 \
          --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
          --max-num-seqs 16 \
          --no-disable-hybrid-kv-cache-manager \
          --trust-remote-code \
          --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
          --quantization ascend \
          --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
          --model-loader-extra-config='{"enable_multithread_load": "true", "num_threads": 128}' \
          --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
          --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enable-auto-tool-choice \
          --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enforce-eager \
          --no-enable-prefix-caching \
          --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1, "method":"mtp", "enforce_eager": true}' \
          --additional-config '{"enable_cpu_binding": true, "enable_shared_expert_dp": true, "enable_dsa_cp": true}' \
          --kv-transfer-config \
          '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeHybridConnector",
          "kv_role": "kv_producer",
          "kv_port": "30000",
          "engine_id": "0",
          "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                  "prefill": {
                      "dp_size": 4,
                      "tp_size": 8
                  },
                  "decode": {
                      "dp_size": 8,
                      "tp_size": 4
                  }
            }
        }'
      
    2. 解码节点(4个D节点共享相同脚本)

      nic_name="xxxx" # change to your own nic name
      local_ip=xx.xx.xx.5/6/7/8 # change to your own ip
      
      export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
      export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
      export TASK_QUEUE_ENABLE=1
      
      export VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT=3600000
      export VLLM_EXECUTE_MODEL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30000
      export HCCL_EXEC_TIMEOUT=204
      export HCCL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=1200
      
      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=10
      export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
      export HCCL_BUFFSIZE=1024
      
      sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0
      sysctl -w kernel.numa_balancing=0
      sysctl kernel.sched_migration_cost_ns=50000
      
      export ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$1
      
      vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-w4a8-mtp \
          --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 \
          --seed 1024 \
          --served-model-name dsv4 \
          --max-model-len 133072 \
          --max-num-batched-tokens 120 \
          --max-num-seqs 60 \
          --async-scheduling \
          --block-size 128 \
          --no-disable-hybrid-kv-cache-manager \
          --trust-remote-code \
          --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
          --quantization ascend \
          --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 \
          --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --enable-auto-tool-choice \
          --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 \
          --safetensors-load-strategy 'prefetch' \
          --model-loader-extra-config='{"enable_multithread_load": "true", "num_threads": 128}' \
          --no-enable-prefix-caching \
          --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens": 1, "method":"mtp", "enforce_eager": true}' \
          --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' \
          --kv-transfer-config \
          '{"kv_connector": "MooncakeHybridConnector",
          "kv_role": "kv_consumer",
          "kv_port": "30100",
          "engine_id": "1",
          "kv_connector_extra_config": {
                  "prefill": {
                      "dp_size": 4,
                      "tp_size": 8
                  },
                  "decode": {
                      "dp_size": 8,
                      "tp_size": 4
                  }
            }
        }' \
          --additional-config '{"ascend_compilation_config":{"enable_npugraph_ex":true,"enable_static_kernel":false}, "enable_cpu_binding":true, "recompute_scheduler_enable":true}'
      
  3. Start the server with the following command on each node.

    1. 预填充节点0

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 4 --tp-size 8 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 0 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    2. 预填充节点1

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 4 --tp-size 8 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 1 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    3. 预填充节点2

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 4 --tp-size 8 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 2 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    4. 预填充节点3

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 4 --tp-size 8 --dp-size-local 1 --dp-rank-start 3 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.1 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    5. 解码节点0

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 8 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 2 --dp-rank-start 0 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.2 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    6. 解码节点1

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 8 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 2 --dp-rank-start 2 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.2 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    7. 解码节点2

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 8 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 2 --dp-rank-start 4 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.2 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
    8. 解码节点3

      # change ip to your own
      python launch_online_dp.py --dp-size 8 --tp-size 4 --dp-size-local 2 --dp-rank-start 6 --dp-address xx.xx.xx.2 --dp-rpc-port 12321 --vllm-start-port 7100
      
  4. Deploy the P-D disaggregation proxy.

    Refer to Prefill-Decode Disaggregation (Deepseek) to deploy the P-D disaggregation proxy.

Key Parameter Descriptions:

  • VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FLASHCOMM1=1: enables the communication optimization function on the prefill nodes.

  • VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_FUSED_MC2=1: enables the Fused MC2 fusion operator to accelerate communication on prefill nodes (A3 series).

  • recompute_scheduler_enable: true: enables the recomputation scheduler. When the KV Cache of the decode node is insufficient, requests will be sent to the prefill node to recompute the KV Cache. In the PD separation scenario, it is recommended to enable this configuration on decode nodes.

  • MooncakeHybridConnector: the KV transfer connector used for PD separation, transferring KV Cache between prefill and decode nodes.

  • enable_shared_expert_dp: true: enables data parallelism for shared experts, applicable to MoE models.

Deployment Verification:

After the PD separation service is fully started, send a request through the proxy port on the prefill master node to verify that Prefill and Decode nodes are working correctly together. Refer to Prefill-Decode Disaggregation (Deepseek) for the proxy verification method.

Common Issues Tip: If you encounter issues with PD separation deployment, please refer to the Public FAQ for troubleshooting.

6 Functional Verification#

服务器启动后,您可以使用输入提示查询模型:

In <node0_ip>:, use the IP address and port number of the primary node. If the primary and standby nodes are separated, use the IP address and port number of the proxy node.

curl http://<node0_ip>:<port>/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "dsv4",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Who are you?"
            }
        ],
        "max_tokens": 256,
        "temperature": 0
    }'

Expected Result:

The service returns HTTP 200 OK with a JSON response containing the choices field.

7 Accuracy Evaluation#

以下是两种精度评估方法。

使用AISBench#

  1. 详情请参考使用AISBench

  2. 执行后即可获取结果。

dataset

version

metric

mode

vllm-api-general-chat

note

GPQA

-

accuracy

gen

89.90

1 Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8)

GSM8K

-

accuracy

gen

96.21

1 Atlas 800 A3 (128G × 8)

8 Performance Evaluation#

使用AISBench#

详情请参考使用AISBench进行性能评估

使用vLLM Benchmark#

Refer to vllm benchmark for more details.

9 Performance Tuning#

9.2 Tuning Guidelines#

9.2.1 General Tuning Reference#

Please refer to the Public Performance Tuning Documentation for tuning methods.

Please refer to the Feature Guide for detailed feature descriptions.

10 FAQ#

For common environment, installation, and general parameter issues, please refer to the Public FAQ; this chapter only covers model-specific issues.