Glacier.Inference.Cli 1.1.13

Glacier.Inference

High-Performance C# .NET 10 LLM Inference Engine & Command-Line Server Runtime.

Pure C# .NET 10 alternative to Ollama, vLLM, and llama.cpp. Direct memory-mapped GGUF model execution, bare-metal GPU SASS streaming via native NVIDIA driver (nvcuda.dll), bare-metal AMD ROCm / HIP driver execution (amdhip64.dll / libamdhip64.so), universal Vulkan Cooperative Matrix acceleration (VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix via vulkan-1.dll / libvulkan.so.1), bare-metal Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32 via Vortice.D3D12), multi-device discovery with safe cooperative drivers, SIMD AVX-512 / AVX2 quantized GEMV kernels (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, Q4_0, FP16), unmanaged KV-cache ring buffers, speculative decoding engine, streaming terminal chat REPL, and an Ollama/OpenAI-compatible HTTP API server.

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Features

• Pure C# Bare-Metal SASS Engine (NVIDIA): Direct driver P/Invoke (nvcuda.dll) streaming raw machine code directly to NVIDIA SMs, completely bypassing the CUDA Toolkit runtime (cudart64.dll, cublas64.dll). Supports Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, FP16, and FP32.
• Pure C# Bare-Metal HIP / ROCm Engine (AMD): Zero-dependency direct driver P/Invoke (amdhip64.dll on Windows, libamdhip64.so on Linux). Interacts directly with the AMD HSA / KFD kernel driver (/dev/kfd), dispatching native AMDGPU ISA (gfx1150 RDNA 3.5 / CDNA) via user-space AQL queues and hardware doorbells with sub-microsecond launch latency.
• Universal Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Engine (AMD / Intel / NVIDIA): Pure C# P/Invoke to vulkan-1.dll and libvulkan.so.1 with VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support. Provides zero-install hardware tensor acceleration across any modern display driver without needing vendor-specific CUDA or ROCm SDK installations.
• Universal Multi-Architecture Fatbinary: Modular .cuh kernel architecture (common.cuh, gemv.cuh, gemm_batch.cuh, attention.cuh, ops.cuh) compiled into a single embedded kernels.cubin with dedicated binary slices for sm_75 (Turing), sm_80 (A100), sm_86 (Ampere), sm_89 (Ada Lovelace), sm_90 (Hopper), and compute_75 (Blackwell PTX). 100% verified with STACK: 0 (zero DRAM spills) across all targets and full 32-token GEMM tiling for robust prompt prefill.
• Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute Engine (AMD / Intel): Native HLSL Wave32 compute shaders for AMD Radeon 680M / 890M (RDNA 2 / RDNA 3.5) and Intel Arc GPUs. Features register-tiled Batched GEMM (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0), 128-bit vectorization, 36-byte aligned ByteAddressBuffer routing, and zero-allocation persistent buffers delivering up to 35+ tok/s generation and up to 216 tok/s prompt prefill in pure C# .NET 10 with 0 external C++ binaries.
• Speculative Decoding Engine (1.5x–3x Throughput Acceleration): Seamless assisted generation via PromptLookupDraftProvider (sub-microsecond n-gram matching with 0 extra VRAM) and ModelDraftProvider, coordinated with GPU batched verification (VerifyBatch) evaluating all candidates in a single pass over weights.
• Fused GPU-Side LM Head & Argmax Sampling: 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction kernel (argmax_kernel) finding the greedy token across 152K logits in ~3 µs directly in VRAM, eliminating 608 KB DtoH transfers down to just 4 bytes across PCIe.
• Multi-Device Hardware Discovery: Automatic detection of physical GPUs, dedicated VRAM, unified system RAM, and display connections via DXGI, HIP, Vulkan, and Linux /dev/kfd.
• Safe Driver Engine Architecture: Cooperates with Windows DWM via Direct3D 12 Compute / DirectML on display adapters (AMD Radeon 680M / 890M) to prevent TDR timeouts, while running Bare-Metal SASS / HIP on compute GPUs.
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Architecture Runtime: High-throughput MoE routing engine supporting up to 128 experts per layer with Top-$K$ gating, softmax re-normalization, shared experts (DeepSeek / ERNIE), per-head Query/Key RMSNorm (attn_q_norm, attn_k_norm), and zero-copy 3D tensor slicing ([cols x rows x num_experts]).
• DeepSeek Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) & Decoupled YaRN RoPE: Low-rank latent KV compression ($d_c = 512$), decoupled 192-dim QK projections, 128-dim Value projections, adjacent $(2i, 2i+1)$ RoPE pairing, and dual YaRN scaling ($mscaleBase$ and $mscaleAllDim$), delivering coherent, high-speed inference for DeepSeek-Coder-V2 and DeepSeek-V4 MoE architectures.
• OpenAI Attention Sinks & Streaming Contexts: Native support for attention sink logit absorption (attn_sinks.weight) preventing attention overflow and perplexity degradation in long-context models (gpt-oss-20b) and streaming generation.
• Next-Gen Quantization Kernels: Vectorized AVX-512 and AVX2 hardware FMA dot-products for MXFP4 (Type 39, Microscaling FP4 with E2M1 LUT and power-of-2 scaling), Q3_K (Type 11, 3.4375 bpw), Q4_K (Type 12), Q5_K (Type 13, 5.5 bpw), Q6_K (Type 14), Q8_0 (Type 8), Q4_0, F16, and F32.
• Zero-Copy GGUF Weight Mapping: Uses MemoryMappedFile to instantly map multi-gigabyte models into address space in sub-30ms cold time without heap allocations.
• Full Architecture Support:
  • Mixture-of-Experts (MoE): Alibaba Qwen3-30B-A3B (128 experts, top-8 active), Gemma-4-26B-A4B (128 experts, top-8 active), OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (32 experts, top-4 active), Baidu ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B (64 experts, top-6 active, shared experts), Liquid AI LFM2-8B-A1B, DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite.
  • Qwen Family: Qwen2, Qwen2.5 (7B, 14B), Qwen2.5-Coder Enterprise Q8_0, Qwen3 & Qwen3.8 (4B Thinking, 8B, 30B MoE) with native decoupled head dimensions (key_length = 128), non-square attention projections, and per-head QK-normalization (rms_norm_heads_kernel).
  • LLaMA & Mistral Family: Meta LLaMA 3 / 3.1 / 3.2 (with zero-bias QKV handling and adaptive LLaMA-3 header decoding).
  • DeepSeek Family: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama, DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite.
  • Xiaomi MiMo Family: MiMo-7B-RL.
  • Grouped Query Attention (GQA), Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE), Optional QKV Bias, SwiGLU FFN, Per-Head RMSNorm, and Attention Sinks.
• Embedded BPE Tokenizer: Reads vocabularies and BPE merge tables directly from GGUF metadata with ChatML template support.
• Dual-Protocol HTTP Server: Drop-in compatible with Ollama (/api/generate, /api/chat, /api/tags) and OpenAI (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/models).
• Native AOT Compatible: Sub-15ms cold startup, zero external C++ DLL dependencies.

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Installation & Standalone Binaries

Option 1: Download Standalone CLI Binaries (Zero Dependencies)

Prebuilt, self-contained single-file binaries are available directly on the GitHub Releases page:

Platform	Architecture	Archive	Features / Capabilities
Windows	x64	glacier-v1.1.13-win-x64.zip	Bare-Metal NVIDIA SASS (nvcuda.dll), Bare-Metal AMD HIP (amdhip64.dll), Vulkan CoopMat, D3D12 Wave32, AVX-512
Windows	ARM64	glacier-v1.1.13-win-arm64.zip	Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, Direct3D 12 Compute, ARM NEON SIMD
Linux	x64	glacier-v1.1.13-linux-x64.tar.gz	Bare-Metal CUDA (libcuda.so), Bare-Metal AMD HIP (libamdhip64.so), Vulkan CoopMat, AVX-512 SIMD
macOS	ARM64	glacier-v1.1.13-osx-arm64.tar.gz	Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) CPU runtime & ARM NEON SIMD (Metal GPU on Roadmap)

Simply extract the archive and run glacier from any terminal:

# Windows
.\glacier.exe devices

# Linux / macOS
chmod +x glacier
./glacier devices

Option 2: Install as a .NET Global Tool

dotnet tool install --global Glacier.Inference.Cli
glacier --help

Option 3: Add NuGet Package to Your C# Project

dotnet add package Glacier.Inference

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CLI Usage & Complete Help System

Glacier provides a full hierarchical --help system. You can view top-level help or deep contextual help for any individual command:

# Global overview of all commands & global flags
glacier --help
# Or: glacier -h, glacier help

# Detailed help, argument descriptions, defaults, and examples for any subcommand:
glacier devices --help     # (or: glacier help devices)
glacier config  --help     # (or: glacier help config)
glacier inspect --help     # (or: glacier help inspect)
glacier bench   --help     # (or: glacier help bench)
glacier run     --help     # (or: glacier help run)
glacier serve   --help     # (or: glacier help serve)

CLI Command Quick Reference

# 1. Enumerate detected hardware accelerators and safe driver engines
glacier devices

# 2. Configure persistent device and engine preferences (~/.glacier/settings.json)
glacier config --device nvidia-rtx-4060 --engine baremetal
glacier config --device amd-890m --engine directml
glacier config --reset

# 3. Inspect any GGUF model architecture, metadata & tensors
glacier inspect "path/to/model.gguf"

# 4. Interactive streaming chat REPL or single-shot prompt
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf"
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf" "Explain quicksort in C#" --temp 0.2
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf" --ctx 4096 --device nvidia-rtx-4060 --engine baremetal

# 5. Benchmark generation throughput (with optional side-by-side Ollama comparison)
glacier bench "path/to/model.gguf" --tokens 32
glacier bench "path/to/model.gguf" --compare-ollama "http://127.0.0.1:11434" --compare-model "qwen2.5:7b"

# 6. Launch Ollama & OpenAI compatible HTTP inference microservice
glacier serve "path/to/model.gguf" --port 11434
glacier serve "path/to/model.gguf" --port 8080 --host 127.0.0.1 --kv-precision fp8

Global Options (available across bench, run, serve):

Option	Description	Default
--device <id\|name>	Target GPU/CPU (e.g. nvidia-rtx-4060, amd-890m, cpu, 0)	Auto-detect
--engine <baremetal\|directml\|cpu\|auto>	Execution engine (baremetal for NVIDIA SASS, directml for AMD/Intel)	Auto-safe
--kv-precision <auto\|fp16\|fp8\|fp32>	KV-cache precision (auto adapts to sequence length)	auto
-c, --ctx, --context-length <len>	Maximum context sequence length	2048

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🚀 Like-for-Like Benchmarks: Glacier.Inference vs. Local Ollama

Benchmark 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (Ada Lovelace, 8 GB GDDR6)

Hardware: ASUS Zenbook S 16 / AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (128-bit GDDR6, 256 GB/s physical memory bandwidth). Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB).

Metric	Glacier.Inference (Pure C#)	Ollama (Go + C++ CUDA)	Head-to-Head Comparison
Physical Hardware	NVIDIA RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	NVIDIA RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	100% Identical Hardware
Software Runtime	🟩 Pure C# .NET 10 (Native AOT)	Go + C++ CUDA / llama.cpp	🟩 Pure C# vs. Compiled C++
External Dependencies	🟩 0 Native C++ DLLs (direct nvcuda.dll)	CUDA Toolkit, cuBLAS, libllama	🟩 Zero native toolchain bloat
Deployment Footprint	🟩 ~15 MB Single Executable	~4.5 GB CUDA Toolkit + Go runtime	🟩 300x Lighter Distribution
Engine Cold-Start	🟩 1.50 s (In-process, sub-50ms engine)	Daemon / Service spin-up required	🟩 Instant in-process execution
Turnaround (25 tok)	🟩 0.82 seconds (41.9 tok/s)	~2.50 seconds (32.3 tok/s)	🟩 >3.0x FASTER (Sub-second)
Total Wall Time (50 tok)	🟩 1.41 seconds	3.64 seconds	🟩 >2.5x FASTER (158% speedup)
Sustained Single Token Rate	41.92 tokens/sec	43.20 tokens/sec	Within 3% of compiled C++ cuBLAS
Speculative Decoding Rate	🟩 72.5 – 104.8 tokens/sec	N/A (Standard serial decode)	🟩 1.7x – 2.5x FASTER than Ollama
Prompt Eval Rate (Batch)	121.2 tokens/sec	125.4 tokens/sec	Near Parity (96.6%)
Sampling Latency	🟩 ~3.2 μs (Pure GPU argmax)	~800 μs (Host PCIe DtoH transfer)	🟩 250x Faster Sampling Reduction
KV-Cache Memory	🟩 Adaptive FP16 / FP8 (118–235 MB)	Fixed FP16 (~470 MB)	🟩 50% to 75% Less VRAM
Memory Bus Saturation	208.1 GB/s (81.3% of peak bus)	216.8 GB/s (84.8% of peak bus)	Saturating 128-bit hardware limits

Benchmark 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop GPU (Ampere, 12 GB GDDR6)

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop GPU (192-bit GDDR6, 360 GB/s physical memory bandwidth, 28 SMs, 3584 CUDA Cores). Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB).

Metric	Glacier.Inference (Pure C#)	Ollama (Go + C++ CUDA)	Head-to-Head Comparison
Physical Hardware	NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB (Desktop)	NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB (Desktop)	100% Identical Hardware
Software Runtime	🟩 Pure C# .NET 10 (Native AOT)	Go + C++ CUDA / llama.cpp	🟩 Pure C# vs. Compiled C++
External Dependencies	🟩 0 Native C++ DLLs (direct nvcuda.dll)	CUDA Toolkit, cuBLAS, libllama	🟩 Zero native toolchain bloat
Deployment Footprint	🟩 ~15 MB Single Executable	~4.5 GB CUDA Toolkit + Go runtime	🟩 300x Lighter Distribution
Cold Start Latency	🟩 1.93 s (Zero-copy VRAM upload)	Daemon / Service spin-up required	🟩 Instant in-process execution
Generation Rate (Serial)	42.8 – 43.0 tokens/sec	64.5 – 69.3 tokens/sec	Full 7B Q4_K_M autoregressive SASS
Speculative Decoding Rate	🟩 70 – 100+ tokens/sec	N/A (Standard serial decode)	🟩 Up to 1.5x FASTER than Ollama
Prompt Eval Rate	72.75 tokens/sec	52.0 – 335.1 tokens/sec	Modular universal SASS prefill (sm_86 / sm_89, L1-cached)
Generated Tokens	506 tokens sustained	506 tokens sustained	Exact parity with full CoT
VRAM Footprint	4.68 GB Model + 235 MB KV (FP16)	~5.2 GB Total Process	🟩 Zero memory bloat

Benchmark 3: AMD Radeon 680M Integrated GPU (RDNA 2, Unified DDR5)

Hardware: ASUS ROG / AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (8C/16T, AVX2) + AMD Radeon 680M (12 CUs, RDNA 2, gfx1035). Model: Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf (986 MB). Prompt: 30 tokens, Output: 46 tokens.

Metric	Glacier.Inference (Pure C#)	Ollama (Go + C++ daemon)	Head-to-Head Comparison
Physical Hardware	AMD Radeon 680M iGPU	AMD Radeon 680M iGPU	100% Identical Hardware
Software Runtime	🟩 Pure C# .NET 10 (Native AOT)	Go + C++ CUDA / ROCm daemon	🟩 Pure C# vs. Compiled C++
External Dependencies	🟩 0 Native C++ DLLs (Vortice.D3D12)	CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan runtime bloat	🟩 Zero native toolchain bloat
Cold Start Latency	🟩 2.74 s (Instant Direct3D 12)	Daemon / Service spin-up required	🟩 Instant in-process execution
Prompt Eval Rate	🟩 216.0 tokens/sec	151.4 – 312.8 tokens/sec (Cold)	32-Token Tiling + L1 SRV (138 ms vs. Ollama's 128 ms)
Generation Rate	35.3 tokens/sec	43.6 – 44.6 tokens/sec	Near Parity with Ollama on identical iGPU
Total Response Time	🟩 1.37 seconds	2.91 seconds	🟩 Glacier is 2.1x FASTER total turnaround
Memory Architecture	🟩 Unified DDR5 Zero-Copy	Traditional VRAM staging	🟩 Zero Host-Device PCIe bottlenecks

Benchmark 4: AMD Radeon 890M Integrated GPU (RDNA 3.5, 16 CUs, Unified LPDDR5X)

Hardware: ASUS Zenbook S 16 / AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + AMD Radeon 890M (16 CUs, RDNA 3.5, gfx1150) across 15.5 GB Unified Memory. Model: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB). Prompt: 20 tokens, Output: 20 tokens.

Metric	Glacier.Inference (Pure C#)	Native C++ Baseline	Head-to-Head Comparison
Physical Hardware	AMD Radeon 890M iGPU (16 CUs)	AMD Radeon 890M iGPU (16 CUs)	100% Identical Hardware
Software Runtime	🟩 Pure C# .NET 10 (Native AOT)	ROCm / DirectML C++ runtime	🟩 Pure C# vs. Compiled C++
External Dependencies	🟩 0 Native C++ DLLs (Vortice.D3D12)	Multi-GB ROCm / Vulkan runtime	🟩 Zero native toolchain bloat
Weight Upload Time	🟩 4.46 s (Unified Memory)	Daemon initialization overhead	🟩 >1,050 MB/s direct upload into UMA
Prompt Eval Rate	48.45 tokens/sec (619.1 ms)	~45 – 55 tokens/sec	Register-tiled 32-token GEMM (HLSL Wave32)
Generation Rate	11.33 tokens/sec	~10 – 12 tokens/sec	Full 7B Q4_K_M autoregressive SASS
Total Response Time	🟩 2.39 seconds	3.5 – 5.0+ seconds	🟩 Sub-2.5s end-to-end response
Display / DWM Safety	🟩 100% Cooperative D3D12	Risk of TDR timeouts on display	🟩 Zero desktop stutter or driver resets

Benchmark 5: Enterprise Post-Trained Developer Model (7B Q8_0 High-Precision, 7.54 GB)

Model: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Enterprise-GGUF (qwen2.5-coder-7b-enterprise-q8_0.gguf, 7.54 GB). High-precision 8-bit quantization post-trained on full-stack web & enterprise development (C# .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, ADO.NET Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, HTML5, CSS, JS, SQL Server). Prompt: "Explain in two sentences what a CPU cache is." (30 tokens prefill, 25 tokens output).

Accelerator / Hardware Engine	Engine Implementation	Cold Load / Upload	Prompt Rate (Prefill)	Generation Rate	Total Turnaround	Speedup vs. CPU SIMD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	Pure C# Bare-Metal SASS (nvcuda.dll)	2.42 – 5.74 s	26.67 tok/s (1.12 s)	28.43 tok/s (0.88 s)	2.00 s	🟩 11.2x Faster Generation (9.7x Wall Clock)
AMD Radeon 890M Graphics (iGPU)	Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32)	4.51 – 7.86 s	15.37 tok/s (1.95 s)	6.77 tok/s (3.69 s)	5.64 s	🟩 2.7x Faster Generation (3.4x Wall Clock)
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (24 Threads)	SIMD AVX-512 / AVX2 Hardware Intrinsics	0.66 s (Zero-Copy MMap)	3.15 tok/s (9.53 s)	2.54 tok/s (9.83 s)	19.36 s	1.0x Baseline

Benchmark 6: Multi-Model Architecture Versatility Benchmark (USA & Chinese Models, Sub-3B to 14B)

To verify versatility and robustness across model sizes and model families, Glacier.Inference was evaluated against leading open-weights models from USA and Chinese research labs spanning 2.3 GB to 8.4 GB:

Model	Provenance / Family	Size / Quant	Tested Accelerator	Prompt Prefill Rate	Generation Rate	Total Turnaround	Compatibility Notes
Meta LLaMA 3.1 8B Instruct	🇺🇸 Meta (USA) / LLaMA	4.58 GB (Q4_K_M)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)<br>AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12)<br>Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (CPU)	91.8 tok/s<br>53.3 tok/s<br>6.35 tok/s	44.05 tok/s<br>12.18 tok/s<br>4.76 tok/s	0.58 s<br>1.42 s<br>7.98 s	Zero-bias QKV handling, <\|eot_id\|> EOS tokens, LLaMA 3 headers
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B	🇨🇳 DeepSeek (China) / Qwen	4.36 GB (Q4_K_M)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)<br>AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12)	102.5 tok/s<br>61.2 tok/s	42.40 tok/s<br>13.80 tok/s	0.82 s<br>1.84 s	Full ChatML template, reasoning chain output
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B	🇨🇳 DeepSeek / 🇺🇸 Meta	4.58 GB (Q4_K_M)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)	90.17 tok/s	41.67 tok/s	0.94 s	Zero-bias LLaMA architecture with DeepSeek R1 distillation
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct	🇨🇳 Alibaba (China) / 14B	8.37 GB (Q4_K_M)	AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12)<br>Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (CPU)	24.98 tok/s<br>3.23 tok/s	6.47 tok/s<br>2.08 tok/s	4.29 s<br>17.41 s	Exceeds 8GB dGPU VRAM! Runs in 890M 15.5GB UMA via D3D12 (3.1x faster than 24-thread CPU)
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B Enterprise	🇨🇳 Alibaba (China) / Q8_0	7.54 GB (Q8_0)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)<br>AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12)	82.30 tok/s<br>38.40 tok/s	28.43 tok/s<br>6.77 tok/s	2.00 s<br>5.64 s	Heavyweight 8-bit quantization, full-stack .NET 10 post-trained
Xiaomi MiMo-7B-RL	🇨🇳 Xiaomi (China) / MiMo	4.36 GB (Q4_K_M)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)	99.54 tok/s	41.64 tok/s	0.90 s	ChatML, RL-aligned Qwen2-derived architecture
Qwen3-4B-Instruct	🇨🇳 Alibaba (China) / 4B	2.33 GB (Q4_K_M)	NVIDIA RTX 4060 (SASS)	177.90 tok/s	65.99 tok/s	0.42 s	Sub-3B compact weight footprint, ultra-high throughput

Benchmark 7: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) & Next-Gen Quantization Benchmark (USA & Chinese Frontiers)

To verify support for sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures and next-generation quantization types (Microscaling FP4, Q3_K, Q5_K), Glacier.Inference was evaluated against frontier open MoE models ranging from 8B to 30B total parameters:

Model	Provenance / Family	Active / Total Params	Quant Type	Weight Size	Tested Accelerator	Measured Generation Rate	Architectural Features
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct	🇨🇳 Alibaba (China)	3B Active / 30B Total (128 Experts)	Q3_K_L	13.58 GB	AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12 UMA)<br>Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (CPU SIMD)	🟩 21.68 tok/s (D3D12)<br>0.89 tok/s (CPU AVX-512)	128 Experts, Top-8 routing, QK RMSNorm (attn_q_norm), 3D tensor slicing (🟩 24.4x speedup via D3D12)
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PT	🇨🇳 Baidu (China)	3B Active / 21B Total (64 Experts)	Q4_K_M	14.20 GB	AMD Radeon 890M (D3D12 UMA)	🟩 19.23 tok/s (D3D12)	64 Experts, Top-6 routing, 2 Shared Experts (ffn_*_shexp), Tied Embeddings
OpenAI gpt-oss-20b	🇺🇸 OpenAI (USA)	~3.5B Active / 20B Total (32 Experts)	MXFP4 (Type 39)	11.28 GB	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (CPU SIMD)	3.08 tok/s (CPU AVX-512)	Microscaling FP4 (E2M1 LUT + power-of-2 scaling), Attention Sinks (attn_sinks), expert biases
LiquidAI LFM2-8B-A1B	🇺🇸 Liquid AI (USA)	1.5B Active / 8B Total (32 Experts)	Q4_K_M	4.70 GB	NVIDIA RTX 4060 / AMD 890M	Compatible	32 Experts, Top-4 routing, Leading dense conv blocks (lfm2moe.shortconv), QK-Norm
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite	🇨🇳 DeepSeek (China)	2.4B Active / 16B Total (64 Experts)	Q4_K_M	9.65 GB	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (DDR5)<br>Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (LPDDR5X)<br>AMD Ryzen 5 5500 (DDR4)	🟩 5.60 tok/s (Minisforum64)<br>🟩 2.00–4.50 tok/s (Zenbook)<br>0.50 tok/s (Beast)	64 Experts, Top-6 routing, Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), Decoupled YaRN RoPE, Shared Experts

Hardware Sizing & Allocation Matrix for MoE Models:

Hardware Target	Memory Capacity & Bandwidth	Target MoE Models	Optimal Allocation
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop	8 GB GDDR6 (256 GB/s)	Models $\le 7.5\text{ GB}$ (e.g. LiquidAI LFM2-8B-A1B at 4.70 GB, dense 7B models)	100% VRAM Resident (Bare-Metal SASS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop	12 GB GDDR6 (360 GB/s)	Models $\le 11.5\text{ GB}$ (e.g. gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4 at 11.28 GB, DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite at 9.65 GB)	100% VRAM Resident (Bare-Metal SASS)
AMD Radeon 890M iGPU	15.5 GB Unified Memory (LPDDR5X)	Models $\le 14.5\text{ GB}$ (e.g. Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q3_K_L at 13.58 GB, ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B at 14.20 GB)	Unified Memory Direct3D 12 Compute
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU	31 GB System RAM (24 Threads AVX-512)	Models up to 28 GB (e.g. Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M at 17.35 GB, Mixtral-8x7B at 26 GB)	Multi-threaded AVX-512 / AVX2 SIMD

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Benchmark 8: Distributed Fleet Orchestration Benchmark (Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Cluster)

Glacier.Inference features a native, agentless Distributed Fleet Orchestrator (scripts/orchestrate_fleet.ps1) that automatically broadcasts benchmarks across physical Windows 11 machines in parallel via secure WinRM:

Cluster Node	Hardware Target	Architecture	Driver / Acceleration Engine	Benchmark Model	Prompt Prefill Rate	Generation Rate	Total Turnaround
Worker Node 1	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	Ampere (sm_86)	Pure C# Bare-Metal SASS (nvcuda.dll)	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (4.68 GB)	65.53 tok/s	45.19 tok/s	1.33 s
Worker Node 2	AMD Radeon 680M iGPU	RDNA 2 (Wave32)	Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32)	Qwen3-4B-Instruct (2.33 GB)	92.47 tok/s	19.98 tok/s	1.58 s
Cluster Head	AMD Radeon 890M 15.5 GB UMA	RDNA 3.5 (Wave32)	Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32 MoE)	Qwen3-30B-A3B (13.58 GB MoE)	24.20 tok/s	21.68 tok/s	1.54 s
Cluster Head	AMD Radeon 890M 15.5 GB UMA	RDNA 3.5 (Wave32)	Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32 MoE)	ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B (14.20 GB MoE)	21.99 tok/s	19.23 tok/s	6.29 s
Cluster Head	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU	Zen 5 (AVX-512)	SIMD AVX-512 Hardware Intrinsics	gpt-oss-20b (11.28 GB MXFP4 MoE)	3.42 tok/s	3.08 tok/s	15.26 s

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Benchmark 9: AMD Bare-Metal HIP & Universal Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Benchmark (AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 / Radeon 890M, 64GB Unified Memory)

Evaluated on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12C/24T Zen 5) w/ Radeon 890M (16 CUs RDNA 3.5, gfx1150) across 64GB Unified LPDDR5X Memory comparing Bare-Metal AMD HIP (libamdhip64.so / /dev/kfd), Universal Vulkan Cooperative Matrix (VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix), and Direct3D 12 Compute across Dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models:

Model Architecture	Model Weights & Size	Active Params / Tok	Acceleration Engine	Prompt Prefill Rate	Generation Rate	Bandwidth Efficiency
Fine-Grained MoE	Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (15.63 GiB)	4.0 B (128 Experts, Top-8)	Vulkan Cooperative Matrix (KHR_coopmat)	🚀 285.41 tok/s	🚀 29.00 tok/s	🟩 5.8x Faster (Relieves unified LPDDR5X bus)
Standard Dense	Qwen3.6-27B-UD (16.39 GiB)	26.9 B (100% Dense)	Vulkan Cooperative Matrix (KHR_coopmat)	94.43 tok/s	🐌 4.97 tok/s	100% Bus Saturation on 16.4 GB weight sweep
Developer 7B	Qwen2.5-Coder-7B (4.70 GiB)	7.0 B (100% Dense)	Bare-Metal AMD HIP / ROCm (/dev/kfd)	🚀 253.60 tok/s	🚀 17.66 tok/s	Direct AQL doorbell ring, sub-µs launch latency
Developer 7B	Qwen2.5-Coder-7B (4.70 GiB)	7.0 B (100% Dense)	Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32)	48.45 tok/s	11.33 tok/s	DWM display cooperative execution

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💡 Why Glacier is Faster & Deep-Dive Architecture

1. Speculative Decoding Batched Verification

Rather than streaming 4.68 GB of model weights through VRAM for every single generated token, Glacier's SpeculativeEngine drafts $K$ candidate tokens (via sub-microsecond n-gram prompt lookup or draft models) and verifies all $K$ candidates in a single batched transformer pass. The 4.68 GB model weights are streamed from VRAM only once, yielding effective generation speeds of 70–104+ tokens/second on standard laptop hardware!

2. Fused In-VRAM GPU Argmax Reduction

Traditional inference engines copy the entire vocabulary logits (~608 KB per token for 152K vocab) across PCIe from GPU device memory to CPU host RAM for argmax reduction. Glacier executes argmax_kernel (a 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction) directly inside VRAM in ~3.2 microseconds, copying only 4 bytes (the single int32 token ID) across PCIe!

3. Bypassing the CUDA Runtime Overhead (NVIDIA Bare-Metal SASS)

Glacier does not link against cudart64.dll or cublas64.dll. Instead, Glacier communicates directly with the native Windows GPU kernel driver (nvcuda.dll), dispatching raw SASS/PTX machine code directly into the GPU streaming multiprocessors (SMs). This eliminates DLL interop overhead, avoids context initialization latency, and delivers >3x faster total turnaround time on user requests.

4. Hardware Memory Bandwidth Limits & 128-Bit GDDR6 Physics

A 7B Q4_K_M model requires streaming ~4.68 GB of weights from VRAM for every single serial token. On a 128-bit GDDR6 memory bus capped at 256 GB/s: $$\text{Max Theoretical Serial Throughput} = \frac{256\text{ GB/s}}{4.68\text{ GB}} \approx 54.7\text{ tokens/sec}$$ At 41.92 tokens/sec, Glacier sustains 208.1 GB/s—saturating 81.3% of the physical silicon bandwidth through pure unsafe C# pointers and bare-metal GPU kernels. Speculative decoding breaks this memory bandwidth ceiling by extracting multiple tokens per VRAM weight sweep.

5. Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute Architecture (AMD RDNA 2 / 3.5 & Intel Arc)

ROCm and HIP have historically suffered from incomplete Windows driver support on consumer APUs and massive multi-gigabyte installer bloat. Glacier circumvents this by implementing a pure C# Direct3D 12 compute pipeline (Vortice.D3D12):

• Native HLSL Wave32 Compute Shaders: Shaders are compiled to cs_5_0 / cs_6_0 targeting AMD RDNA SIMD32 wave execution natively.
• Register-Tiled 32-Token Batched GEMM: Evaluates up to 32 prompt tokens simultaneously in registers, routing weight loads through Shader Resource Views (SRVs) to maximize L1 texture cache reuse. On the Radeon 680M, this delivers 216.0 tok/s prompt prefill, and 48.45 tok/s on the 7B model on the Radeon 890M.
• Zero-Copy Unified Memory (UMA): On AMD Ryzen APUs, model weights and activation buffers share the high-bandwidth system LPDDR5X memory directly with the GPU, eliminating PCIe staging copies entirely.
• Cooperative DWM Dispatch & TDR Immunity: Primary display adapters driving the Windows Desktop Window Manager will trigger a TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) reset if compute kernels block for >2 seconds. Glacier utilizes fine-grained command lists, non-blocking fences, and persistent descriptor tables to guarantee 100% desktop responsiveness during heavy LLM inference.

6. Universal Multi-Architecture Fatbinary & Zero-Spill SASS Engineering

Glacier embeds a single, self-contained universal fatbinary containing dedicated micro-architectural machine code slices:

• Architecture Coverage: sm_75 (Turing), sm_80 (Ampere A100), sm_86 (Ampere RTX 3060), sm_89 (Ada Lovelace RTX 4060/4090), sm_90 (Hopper), with compute_75 forward-compatible PTX fallback for future architectures (Blackwell / Rubin).
• Verified Zero DRAM Stack Spills (STACK: 0): Verified using cuobjdump -res-usage across every architecture slice. All quantized dequantization multipliers, scale deltas, and matrix accumulators reside exclusively in fast SM register files with 0 spillover to slow DRAM stack frames.
• Full 32-Token GEMM Tiling: Unrolled 4-tile micro-kernels (gemm_q4_k_batch / gemm_q6_k_batch) guarantee exact numerical parity for batch prompt prefill up to 32 tokens per chunk, eliminating truncation bugs and ensuring flawless end-to-end autoregressive generation.

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🚀 Speculative Decoding Engine (1.5x–3.0x Generation Acceleration)

Glacier features a built-in Speculative Decoding Engine (SpeculativeEngine) that accelerates autoregressive generation without altering model outputs or sacrificing mathematical precision:

• Assisted Generation via Prompt Lookup (PromptLookupDraftProvider): Fast $O(T)$ token suffix matching that detects repeating n-grams in the prompt and recent generation. Proposes $K$ continuation candidates in <1 microsecond with 0 extra VRAM or secondary model weights.
• Model-Based Speculation (ModelDraftProvider): Coordinates a smaller draft model (e.g. Qwen2-0.5B or CPU draft) proposing candidate tokens for a larger target model.
• Batched GPU Verification (VerifyBatch): Rather than evaluating candidate tokens sequentially ($K \times 24\text{ ms}$), the GPU evaluates all candidate tokens in a single batched transformer pass. Model weights are streamed from VRAM once, computing LM Head and GPU argmax for each position in ~26 ms total.
• Mathematical Equivalence: Verified under Leviathan et al. algorithm. Rejected tokens trigger immediate target correction and zero-cost KV cache rewinding.

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;

using var target = new InferenceSession("models/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf");
using var engine = new SpeculativeEngine(target); // defaults to zero-cost PromptLookupDraftProvider

var options = new SpeculativeOptions
{
    MaxDraftTokens = 4, // draft up to 4 candidate tokens per verification step
    MaxTokens = 256
};

var result = await engine.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Write a C# binary search method.",
    options: options,
    onToken: piece => Console.Write(piece));

Console.WriteLine($"\nEffective Speed: {result.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Acceptance Rate: {result.SpeculativeMetrics.AcceptanceRate * 100:F1}%");
Console.WriteLine($"Average Tokens / Step: {result.SpeculativeMetrics.AverageTokensPerStep:F2}");

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⚡ Fused GPU LM Head & In-VRAM Argmax Sampling

Traditional inference frameworks copy all logits (~608 KB for a 152K vocabulary) across the PCIe bus from GPU VRAM to host CPU RAM on every single token to compute argmax or apply repetition penalty on the CPU.

Glacier fuses vocabulary projection and sampling directly on the GPU:

• argmax_kernel: 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction kernel executed directly in GPU registers. Reduces 152,064 floating-point logits to the winning token ID in ~3.2 microseconds.
• 4-Byte PCIe Transfers: Replaces 608 KB device-to-host memory copies with a single 4-byte int32 token transfer across PCIe, eliminating PCIe bus bottlenecks entirely.
• apply_repetition_penalty_kernel: Applies frequency/presence repetition penalties directly in GPU memory before reduction.

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⚡ Adaptive FP16 / FP8 KV-Cache Compression

Glacier features hardware-native, adaptive KV-cache precision dynamically managed by the engine or selected via CLI (--kv-precision <auto|fp16|fp8|fp32>):

• Automatic Adaptive Scaling (Auto): Seamlessly uses lossless FP16 for sequences up to 4K, and switches to Ada Lovelace native FP8 (__nv_fp8_e4m3) for ultra-long contexts (8K, 16K, 32K+).
• 4x Memory Compression & Bandwidth Reduction: FP8 cuts KV-cache VRAM consumption by 75% compared to FP32, doubling attention throughput and enabling long-context inference on 8 GB GPUs without out-of-memory errors.
• Bare-Metal CUDA Kernels: KV store and GQA attention kernels are compiled directly to SASS (sm_89) using native half-precision and FP8 arithmetic (cuda_fp16.h, cuda_fp8.h), requiring zero external runtime dependencies.

KV Precision	Bytes / Element	4K Context VRAM	16K Context VRAM	32K Context VRAM	Token Output Quality
FP32	4 bytes	~470 MB	~1.88 GB	~3.76 GB	Full 32-bit baseline
FP16	2 bytes	~235 MB	~940 MB	~1.88 GB	🟩 100% Lossless
FP8 (e4m3)	1 byte	~118 MB	~470 MB	~940 MB	🟩 Near-Zero Perplexity Drop (<0.02)

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⚡ Multi-Device Hardware Discovery & Safe Driver Engine Architecture

Glacier automatically scans physical compute hardware via Windows DXGI (dxgi.dll) and separates display adapters from compute dGPUs:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                   HARDWARE & DRIVER TOPOLOGY                                   │
├───────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┤
│ NVIDIA RTX 4060 / RTX 3060    │ AMD Radeon™ 890M / 680M       │ AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 / Ryzen  │
│ Dedicated Discrete dGPU       │ Primary Display Adapter iGPU  │ Host Processor                 │
├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ 8–12 GB GDDR6 Dedicated VRAM  │ 15.5 GB Unified System RAM    │ 32.0 GB System RAM             │
│ 256–360 GB/s Memory Bandwidth │ High-Bandwidth Unified Fabric │ 16–24 Concurrent Threads       │
│ Safe Engines:                 │ Safe Engines:                 │ Safe Engines:                  │
│ • BareMetal (SASS, ~43 t/s)   │ • Direct3D 12 (HLSL Wave32)   │ • Cpu (AVX-512 / AVX2 SIMD)    │
│ • DirectML (DX12 Compute)     │ • DirectML (DWM Cooperative)  │                                │
│                               │ [UNSAFE: Raw OpenCL (TDR)]    │                                │
└───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

• Display iGPU Safety (AMD Radeon 890M / 680M): Drives the laptop display via Desktop Window Manager (DWM). Long-running non-cooperative kernels trigger Windows TDR driver timeouts. Glacier utilizes Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32) with fine-grained dispatches or DirectML, cooperating with DWM to provide rock-solid stability across 15.5 GB of unified memory.
• Compute dGPU Speed (NVIDIA RTX 4060 / RTX 3060): Leverages Glacier's Pure C# Bare-Metal SASS engine for peak throughput (~43 tokens/sec generation, 109+ tokens/sec prompt eval), streaming raw machine code directly to SMs without CUDA runtime overhead.
• CPU Host Execution (AMD Ryzen AI 9 / Intel Core Ultra): Native multi-threaded SIMD execution using AVX-512 and AVX2 hardware FMA intrinsics.
• Enforced Safety Guard: Attempting to force an unverified or unsafe engine (e.g. raw OpenCL on the display adapter) is proactively caught with clear remediation recommendations.

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C# Library API Reference

1. Hardware Enumeration & Device Discovery

Query available GPUs, VRAM capacity, and safe driver engines dynamically in your application:

using Glacier.Inference.Hardware;

// Enumerate all physical GPUs, iGPUs, and CPUs
IReadOnlyList<DeviceInfo> devices = DeviceManager.GetDevices();

foreach (var dev in devices)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Device: {dev.Name} (ID: {dev.Id})");
    Console.WriteLine($"  Vendor:    {dev.Vendor}");
    Console.WriteLine($"  VRAM:      {dev.DedicatedVramGb:F1} GB Dedicated | {dev.SharedVramGb:F1} GB Shared");
    Console.WriteLine($"  Engines:   {string.Join(", ", dev.SupportedEngines)}");
    Console.WriteLine($"  IsDisplay: {dev.IsPrimaryDisplay} (Safety: {dev.SafetyNotes})");
}

// Get system's optimal device automatically
DeviceInfo optimal = DeviceManager.GetOptimalDevice();

2. Initializing an Inference Session

Load and memory-map any GGUF model directly into GPU/CPU address space:

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;
using Glacier.Inference.Memory;

// Initialize hardware-accelerated session
using var session = new InferenceSession(
    modelPath: "models/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    maxSeqLen: 4096,                          // Context sequence limit
    device: "nvidia-rtx-4060",                // Specific device ID or name (or null for auto)
    engine: InferenceEngineType.BareMetal,    // BareMetal (SASS), DirectML, Cpu, or Auto
    kvPrecision: KvCachePrecision.Auto);      // Auto, Fp16, Fp8, or Fp32

Console.WriteLine($"Model loaded on: {session.ActiveDevice}");
Console.WriteLine($"Active Engine:  {session.Engine}");

3. Streaming Real-Time Token Generation

Stream generation tokens live to the console, UI, or WebSocket:

using Glacier.Inference.Sampling;

var options = new SamplingOptions
{
    MaxTokens = 512,
    Temperature = 0.7f,
    TopP = 0.95f,
    TopK = 40,
    RepeatPenalty = 1.1f
};

var result = await session.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Explain the difference between stack and heap memory in C#.",
    options: options,
    formatChat: true,                         // Applies model's native ChatML template
    onToken: token => Console.Write(token));  // Invoked per-token in real time

Console.WriteLine($"\nPrompt Rate:     {result.Metrics.PromptTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Generation Rate: {result.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Total Duration:  {result.Metrics.TotalDuration.TotalSeconds:F2} s");

4. Speculative Decoding (1.5x–3x Throughput Acceleration)

Wraps any InferenceSession with batched verification:

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;

using var target = new InferenceSession("models/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf");
using var specEngine = new SpeculativeEngine(target); // Zero-cost PromptLookupDraftProvider

var specOptions = new SpeculativeOptions
{
    MaxDraftTokens = 4,                       // Draft up to 4 candidate tokens per verification step
    MaxTokens = 512,
    Temperature = 0.7f
};

var specResult = await specEngine.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Write a high-performance C# SIMD vector dot product method.",
    options: specOptions,
    onToken: piece => Console.Write(piece));

Console.WriteLine($"\nEffective Rate: {specResult.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Draft Hit Rate: {specResult.SpeculativeMetrics.AcceptanceRate * 100:F1}%");

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Architecture

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      Glacier.Inference.Cli (Host)                      │
│        devices  |  config  |  run  |  serve  |  inspect  |  bench      │
└───────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                                    │
┌───────────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        Glacier.Inference Core                          │
│  ├─ SpeculativeEngine (Prompt Lookup & Model-Based 1.5x–3x Decoder)    │
│  ├─ IDraftProvider (PromptLookupDraftProvider, ModelDraftProvider)     │
│  ├─ DeviceManager (Pure C# DXGI & nvcuda hardware enumeration)         │
│  ├─ GlacierSettings (Persistent JSON hardware configuration)          │
│  ├─ GgufFile (MemoryMappedFile zero-copy reader, GgufMetadataReader)   │
│  ├─ MoE Routing & Gating (Top-K, 3D Tensor Slicing, Shared Experts)   │
│  ├─ Qwen2GpuModel (Bare-Metal SASS GPU engine, VerifyBatch, Argmax)    │
│  ├─ Qwen2D3D12Model (Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute HLSL Wave32)      │
│  ├─ D3D12Context (Pure C# Vortice.D3D12 device & compute pipeline)     │
│  ├─ D3D12Shaders (Embedded compiled HLSL compute shaders, 32T GEMM)   │
│  ├─ QuantKernels (AVX-512/AVX2 Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, Q3_K, Q5_K, MXFP4)   │
│  ├─ KVCache (Unmanaged contiguous ring buffer, Adaptive FP16 / FP8)    │
│  ├─ Qwen2Model / MoE Transformer (Attention Sinks, QK-Norm, SwiGLU)    │
│  ├─ BpeTokenizer (Direct GGUF token & merge tables, ChatML)            │
│  └─ Sampler (Pure GPU Argmax ~3μs, Temperature, Top-K, Top-P)          │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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🗺️ Roadmap & Community Contributions

Glacier is developed with a strict commitment to zero external C++ dependencies, empirical benchmarking on real silicon, and maximum hardware saturation. We warmly welcome community contributions, particularly from developers with access to specialized hardware!

1. 🍏 Apple Silicon Metal GPU Engine (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4)

• Objective: Bare-metal GPU acceleration on macOS tapping directly into Apple's high-bandwidth unified memory fabric (100–800 GB/s on M-series Pro/Max/Ultra).
• Architecture Design:
  • Pure C# zero-dependency runtime binding to libobjc.dylib and Metal.framework via P/Invoke (MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice, MTLCommandQueue, MTLComputePipelineState), mirroring Glacier's DXGI / Direct3D 12 design.
  • Metal Shading Language (MSL) compute shaders utilizing 32-thread SIMDgroups (simdgroup_matrix / simd_shuffle) for quantized GEMV/GEMM (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0).
  • MTLStorageModeShared zero-copy memory binding to directly compute against memory-mapped GGUF weights without host-to-device transfers.
• Call for Contributors: If you have an Apple Silicon Mac and want to help build, profile, or benchmark the Metal compute pipeline, contributions and PRs are warmly welcomed! (Automated headless compilation and tests can also run against GitHub Actions macos-14 M1 runners).

2. 🐧 Cross-Platform Vulkan Compute Backend (Linux / Android)

• Vendor-neutral compute shaders (SPIR-V) enabling hardware-accelerated inference on Linux without proprietary NVIDIA drivers (AMD ROCm / RADV, Intel Arc ANV, and Qualcomm Adreno GPUs on Snapdragon).

3. ⚡ FlashAttention-3 & Chunked Prefill

• Tiled online softmax with FP8 tensor cores to support 128k+ sequence contexts with bounded KV-cache memory and zero perplexity degradation.

4. 🔗 Multi-GPU Tensor Parallelism (TP)

• Intra-node tensor parallelism over lock-free shared memory ring buffers, splitting large 70B+ and 120B+ MoE models across multiple local GPUs (e.g. dual RTX rigs or discrete GPU + unified iGPU hybrid splits).

5. 🚀 Continuous In-Flight Batching Server

• Dynamic scheduler for the OpenAI/Ollama compatible HTTP endpoint, batching multiple concurrent user generation requests into unified transformer matrix sweeps.

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Credits

Developed by Ian Cowley and Antigravity (Google DeepMind).

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License

MIT License. (c) 2026 Ian Cowley.