Glacier.Serve 1.1.1

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🚀 Glacier.Serve: Continuous Batching & PagedAttention Server

Pure C# .NET 10 replacement for Python vLLM and Ollama.
Built for zero memory fragmentation, sub-millisecond HTTP latency, and Native AOT enterprise deployment.

⚡ The Headline Figures

🎯 What Glacier.Serve Delivers

1. PagedAttention Engine:

   • Divides KV cache into 16-token unmanaged virtual memory pages.
   • Eliminates memory fragmentation completely with $O(1)$ lock-free recycling (ConcurrentStack<int>).
   • Slashes memory requirements from 8.96 GB down to 346 MB across 20 concurrent sequences.

2. Continuous Iteration Batching:

   • Dynamic admission and eviction at every token iteration step.
   • Pending requests join the active batch instantly without stalling in-flight decodes.
   • Sub-10ms Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) under continuous concurrent load.

3. OpenAI & Ollama Drop-In Compatibility:

   • POST /v1/chat/completions: Full streaming SSE (text/event-stream) and JSON batch completion.
   • GET /v1/models: Standard OpenAI model registry.
   • POST /api/chat & POST /api/generate: Ollama-compatible line-delimited NDJSON streaming.
   • GET /health & GET /metrics: Built-in Prometheus telemetry endpoints.

4. Zero-Copy High-Throughput HTTP Core:

   • Custom SIMD-accelerated HTTP/1.1 radix router built on System.IO.Pipelines.
   • Native chunked transfer encoding un-chunking and pipelining.
   • Direct zero-copy streaming for Glacier.Polaris DataFrames and Glacier.Tensor weights.

🛠️ Quickstart: 5 Lines of Code

using Glacier.Serve.Inference.Batching;
using Glacier.Serve.Inference.Http;
using Glacier.Serve.Server;

// 1. Initialize Continuous Batching Engine with PagedAttention
using var engine = new ContinuousBatchEngine("models/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf", totalKvBlocks: 1024);

// 2. Build and start high-performance server
using var app = GlacierServeApp.CreateBuilder().UsePort(5055).Build();
app.MapInference(engine, defaultModelName: "qwen2.5-7b-instruct");
await app.StartAsync();

Console.WriteLine("🚀 Glacier.Serve active on http://127.0.0.1:5055");

Querying with Standard Tools

OpenAI SDK / cURL:

curl http://127.0.0.1:5055/v1/chat/completions   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{"model": "qwen2.5-7b-instruct", "prompt": "Explain PagedAttention:", "maxTokens": 64, "stream": true}'

Ollama CLI / API:

curl http://127.0.0.1:5055/api/generate   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{"prompt": "What is continuous batching?", "maxTokens": 32}'

🏗️ Architecture

                  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │          Glacier.Serve HTTP Pipeline          │
                  │   POST /v1/chat/completions  |  POST /api/chat │
                  └───────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                                          │
                                          ▼
                         ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
                         │      ContinuousBatchEngine      │
                         │   Dynamic Admission & Eviction  │
                         └───────┬─────────────────┬───────┘
                                 │                 │
                ┌────────────────▼─────┐     ┌─────▼────────────────┐
                │  PagedBlockPool      │     │  BlockTable Mapping  │
                │  16-token page slots │     │  Logical -> Physical │
                │  Zero fragmentation  │     │  Virtual Page Table  │
                └────────────────┬─────┘     └─────┬────────────────┘
                                 │                 │
                                 ▼                 ▼
                         ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
                         │  PagedAttentionKernel (SIMD)    │
                         │  AVX-512 / AVX2 FMA & GQA       │
                         └─────────────────────────────────┘

📦 NuGet Installation

dotnet add package Glacier.Serve --version 1.1.0

📄 License

MIT License. Part of the Glacier .NET 10 High-Performance AI Ecosystem.