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DeepSeek-V4-Pro Recipe

Recipes for DeepSeek-V4-Pro on Dynamo across two backends (vLLM, SGLang) and two hardware targets (B200, GB200). Single-node aggregated serving fills 8 GPUs of a B200 box; on GB200 the model exceeds a single 4-GPU NVL4 tray, so V4-Pro spans two GB200 trays via NVLink72 (MNNVL) — either aggregated with TP=8 cross-node or disaggregated prefill/decode.

Variant Backend Hardware Manifest Topology Container
vllm-agg-b200 vLLM 1 node, 8x B200 vllm/agg/b200/deploy.yaml TP=8 + Expert Parallel (single node) Prebuilt NGC image (...1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3, multi-arch)
vllm-agg-gb200 vLLM 2 nodes, 4x GB200 each (8 total) vllm/agg/gb200/deploy.yaml TP=8 + Expert Parallel cross-node, MNNVL via ComputeDomain (NVLink72) Prebuilt NGC image (...1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3, multi-arch)
vllm-disagg-gb200 vLLM 2 nodes, 4x GB200 each (8 prefill + 8 decode = 16 total) vllm/disagg/gb200/deploy.yaml 1P + 1D, DP=8 + Expert Parallel per worker, MNNVL via ComputeDomain (NVLink72) Prebuilt NGC image (...1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3, multi-arch)
sglang-agg SGLang 1 node, 8x B200 sglang/agg/deploy.yaml TP=8, MXFP4 MoE via FlashInfer, EAGLE MTP 3/4 Prebuilt NGC image; optional custom build

A perf-benchmark Job for the GB200 disagg variant is provided alongside the deploy:

Perf Job Notes
vllm/disagg/gb200/perf.yaml Runs aiperf profile against dsv4-pro-disagg-frontend:8000 with an 8K-input / 1K-output concurrency sweep (256 / 512 / 1024). Override CONCURRENCIES in the Job env for a smaller smoke run.

Status: Experimental (Day-0). Modality: text only.

Prerequisites

  1. Dynamo Platform installed — see the Kubernetes Deployment Guide.
  2. GPU cluster. Hardware depends on the variant:
    • B200 variants (vllm-agg-b200, sglang-agg): 8 B200 GPUs available on a single node (x86_64). TP=8 fills the box.
    • GB200 variants (vllm-agg-gb200, vllm-disagg-gb200): 2 GB200 nodes, each with 4 GPUs (single NVL4 tray each), connected to the same NVLink72 clique. Nodes must be labeled nvidia.com/gpu.product=NVIDIA-GB200 and tainted kubernetes.io/arch=arm64:NoSchedule. The cluster must have the DRA / ComputeDomain controller installed (verify with kubectl get crd | grep computedomain); each manifest's ComputeDomain CR + resourceClaims are how the operator co-locates the worker pod set on the same NVLink72 fabric (the agg variant places 2 pods, the disagg variant places 4).
  3. HuggingFace token with access to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro.

Quick Start

Common setup (run once — applies to both variants):

export NAMESPACE=dynamo-demo
kubectl create namespace ${NAMESPACE}

# HuggingFace token secret (consumed by the download Job and, as a convenience, by the worker)
kubectl create secret generic hf-token-secret \
  --from-literal=HF_TOKEN="your-token-here" \
  -n ${NAMESPACE}

# Download model into the model-cache PVC.
# Edit model-cache/model-cache.yaml and set storageClassName to a RWX class in your cluster.
# The PVC requests 1500Gi; DeepSeek-V4-Pro is ~865 GB on disk (64 safetensors shards,
# FP4+FP8 mixed) and typically takes 1.5-3 hours to download on first apply.
kubectl apply -f model-cache/model-cache.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl apply -f model-cache/model-download.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl wait --for=condition=Complete job/model-download -n ${NAMESPACE} --timeout=14400s

Deploy — vLLM B200 (vllm-agg-b200)

kubectl apply -f vllm/agg/b200/deploy.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}

# First launch of the decode worker takes up to ~90 minutes (TP=8 weight load +
# FlashInfer autotune + cudagraph warmup). The startup probe is sized for this.
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod \
  -l nvidia.com/dynamo-graph-deployment-name=dsv4-pro-agg \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} --timeout=5400s

Deploy — vLLM GB200 agg (vllm-agg-gb200)

kubectl apply -f vllm/agg/gb200/deploy.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}

# First launch of the decode worker takes up to ~90 minutes (TP=8 weight load
# + NCCL bring-up over MNNVL + cudagraph capture across 2 nodes).
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod \
  -l nvidia.com/dynamo-graph-deployment-name=dsv4-pro-agg \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} --timeout=5400s

Deploy — vLLM GB200 disagg (vllm-disagg-gb200)

kubectl apply -f vllm/disagg/gb200/deploy.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}

# First launch of each leader takes up to ~90 minutes (DP=8 weight load +
# NIXL/UCX setup + NCCL bring-up over MNNVL + cudagraph capture).
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod \
  -l nvidia.com/dynamo-graph-deployment-name=dsv4-pro-disagg \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} --timeout=5400s

# Optional: run the perf benchmark Job (8K input / 1K output sweep at c=256/512/1024)
# kubectl apply -f vllm/disagg/gb200/perf.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}

Deploy — SGLang (sglang-agg)

kubectl apply -f sglang/agg/deploy.yaml -n ${NAMESPACE}

# First launch of the decode worker takes up to ~60 minutes (TP=8 weight load +
# DeepGEMM warmup + cudagraph warmup). The startup probe is sized for this.
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod \
  -l nvidia.com/dynamo-graph-deployment-name=sglang-dsv4-pro \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} --timeout=3600s

Test the Deployment

Port-forward the variant you deployed:

# vLLM B200 agg or GB200 agg (same DGD/service name — only one of these
# variants can be deployed in a given namespace at a time)
kubectl port-forward svc/dsv4-pro-agg-frontend 8000:8000 -n ${NAMESPACE}

# vLLM GB200 disagg
kubectl port-forward svc/dsv4-pro-disagg-frontend 8000:8000 -n ${NAMESPACE}

# SGLang
kubectl port-forward svc/sglang-dsv4-pro-frontend 8000:8000 -n ${NAMESPACE}

Either way the request shape is the same. Send thinking: false on the vLLM variant per the Day-0 caveat above:

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    "max_tokens": 100,
    "chat_template_kwargs": {"thinking": false}
  }'

Recipe Details

vLLM B200 agg (vllm/agg/b200/deploy.yaml)

Flag Purpose
--tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 Selects the DeepSeek-V4 tokenizer
--dyn-reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 Extracts chain-of-thought into message.reasoning_content
--dyn-tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 Emits OpenAI-compatible structured tool_calls
--attention-config '{"use_fp4_indexer_cache":true}' Blackwell FP4 indexer cache for CSA+HCA attention
--kv-cache-dtype fp8 + --block-size 256 FP8 KV cache; block size matches the upstream recipe
--tensor-parallel-size 8 --enable-expert-parallel TP=8 across 8 GPUs of one node, with EP enabled for the MoE experts
--compilation-config '{"mode":0,"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' Conservative cudagraph mode appropriate for the larger Pro model (matches upstream V4-Pro example)
--no-enable-flashinfer-autotune Skip per-shape FlashInfer autotuning at startup; required on dsv4 for correct accuracy
--max-num-seqs 256 Concurrency cap

vLLM GB200 agg (vllm/agg/gb200/deploy.yaml)

V4-Pro at ~865 GB on disk does not fit a single GB200 NVL4 tray (~768 GB HBM across 4 GPUs), so the GB200 agg recipe stretches one tensor-parallel group across two trays — the cross-node TP all-reduce / all-gather flows over NVLink72 (MNNVL), not RoCE. The two pods are co-located on the same NVLink72 clique by the DRA ComputeDomain controller.

Flag / env Purpose
--tensor-parallel-size 8 --enable-expert-parallel TP=8 + EP across 2 nodes (4 GPUs/node × 2 nodes) — no DP.
--compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_AND_PIECEWISE","custom_ops":["all"],"pass_config":{"fuse_allreduce_rms":false}}' FULL_AND_PIECEWISE cudagraph + all custom ops; fuse_allreduce_rms:false avoids a non-fatal FlashInfer trtllm allreduce-norm workspace warning at startup.
--attention-config '{"use_fp4_indexer_cache":true}' + --moe-backend deep_gemm_mega_moe Blackwell FP4 indexer cache + DeepGEMM "mega MoE" kernel — same kernels as the B200 agg variant.
--no-enable-flashinfer-autotune Skip per-shape FlashInfer autotuning at startup; required on dsv4 for correct accuracy
NCCL_MNNVL_ENABLE=1, UCX_CUDA_IPC_ENABLE_MNNVL=y, UCX_TLS=cuda_copy,cuda_ipc,tcp, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=1, NCCL_P2P_LEVEL=NVL Enable cross-node NVLink72 / MNNVL fabric. Required because the TP=8 process group spans 2 nodes.
ComputeDomain CR + resourceClaimTemplate (top of manifest) DRA primitive that asks the scheduler to allocate an MNNVL channel on demand and co-locate the 2-pod set on the same NVLink72 clique.
(no --data-parallel-rpc-port) TP-only — torch.distributed master binds MASTER_PORT (29500) for the cross-node rendezvous, which also satisfies the operator's wait-for-leader-mp TCP probe.

vLLM GB200 disagg (vllm/disagg/gb200/deploy.yaml)

V4-Pro at ~865 GB on disk does not fit a single GB200 NVL4 tray (~768 GB HBM across 4 GPUs), so the GB200 recipe is the disaggregated prefill/decode shape: one prefill replica spanning 2 GB200 nodes (DP=8 + EP) and one decode replica spanning 2 GB200 nodes (DP=8 + EP), all four pods placed on the same NVLink72 clique by the DRA ComputeDomain controller.

Flag / env Purpose
--data-parallel-size 8 --enable-expert-parallel --tensor-parallel-size 1 DP=8 + EP across 2 nodes per worker (4 GPUs/node × 2 nodes) — TP=1
--data-parallel-rpc-port 29500 Binds vLLM's DP coordinator on :29500. The dynamo operator's wait-for-leader-mp init container does a TCP probe to <leader>:29500 and blocks worker startup until that port accepts; pinning the DP coord port to 29500 makes the real RPC server satisfy the probe (cleaner than parking a placeholder listener).
--disaggregation-mode prefill (prefill only) + --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"NixlConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' Prefill writes KV blocks via NIXL; decode reads them. NIXL's UCX active-messages control plane goes over TCP (UCX_TLS=cuda_ipc,cuda_copy,tcp) while bulk KV flows over MNNVL.
NCCL_MNNVL_ENABLE=1, UCX_CUDA_IPC_ENABLE_MNNVL=y, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=1, NCCL_P2P_LEVEL=NVL Enable cross-node NVLink72 / MNNVL fabric. Required because the prefill and decode workers each span 2 nodes.
ComputeDomain CR + resourceClaimTemplate (top of manifest) DRA primitive that asks the scheduler to allocate an MNNVL channel on demand and co-locate the 4-pod set on the same NVLink72 clique. Without it, NCCL bring-up across pods fails — TCP-only fallback is not viable for DP=8 cross-pod all-reduce.
--compilation-config '{"mode":0,"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' (decode), --enforce-eager (prefill) Conservative compile/graph config — matches the B200 agg variant's V4-Pro tuning.
--no-enable-flashinfer-autotune (prefill + decode) Skip per-shape FlashInfer autotuning at startup; required on dsv4 for correct accuracy
--max-model-len 9280, --max-num-seqs 16 (prefill) / 128 (decode) Capped to the 8K-input / 1K-output benchmark shape.

SGLang (sglang/agg/deploy.yaml)

Flag Purpose
--dyn-reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 Extracts chain-of-thought into message.reasoning_content
--dyn-tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 Emits OpenAI-compatible structured tool_calls
--trust-remote-code Required for the V4 architecture's custom modeling code
--tp 8 Tensor-parallel across all 8 GPUs of one node
--moe-runner-backend flashinfer_mxfp4 MXFP4 MoE kernel via FlashInfer for the V4 expert weights
--speculative-algo EAGLE + --speculative-num-steps 3 + --speculative-eagle-topk 1 + --speculative-num-draft-tokens 4 EAGLE MTP speculative decoding (3 draft steps, top-1 over the EAGLE head, 4 draft tokens per step)
--chunked-prefill-size 4096 Chunk long prompts at 4k tokens for steady-state decode interleaving
--disable-flashinfer-autotune Skip per-shape autotuning at startup; the dsv4 base ships pre-tuned defaults

Why TP=8 (not DP=4 like Flash)?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro is ~5.5x larger than Flash on disk (~865 GB vs. ~160 GB). With FP4+FP8 mixed weights it does not fit in 4 ranks at typical batch shapes, so the upstream tested shape for Pro is TP=8 on both backends — across all 8 GPUs of one B200 node, or across two GB200 NVL4 trays connected by NVLink72. On vLLM, Expert Parallel is layered on top of TP — TP shards the dense (attention/router/norm) weights, EP shards the experts. On SGLang, the MXFP4 MoE backend handles the expert sharding internally under the same TP=8 process group.

Model Details

Sourced from the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro model card (preview release):
Model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro (MoE, 1.6T total / 49B active per token)
Context length 1M tokens
Checkpoint Mixed precision — MoE expert weights in FP4; most other parameters in FP8
Attention Hybrid Compressed Sparse Attention (CSA) + Heavily Compressed Attention (HCA). The vLLM variant enables the Blackwell FP4 indexer cache via --attention-config '{"use_fp4_indexer_cache":true}'
Residual path Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC)
Reasoning modes Three effort levels exposed via chat_template_kwargs: {} (Non-think), {"thinking":true,"reasoning_effort":"high"} (Think High), {"thinking":true,"reasoning_effort":"max"} (Think Max — needs --max-model-len >= 393216)
Long-context efficiency Per the model card, ~27% of the per-token inference FLOPs and ~10% of the KV cache vs. DeepSeek-V3.2 at 1M context
License MIT

Recipe-level (per-variant) settings:

vLLM (vllm-agg) SGLang (sglang-agg)
Backend image Prebuilt nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3 (multi-arch) Prebuilt nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/sglang-runtime:1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda12-dev.3
Parallelism TP=8, Expert Parallel enabled TP=8
MoE backend vLLM's V4 expert kernel (FP4) FlashInfer MXFP4
KV cache FP8, block size 256 engine default
Speculative decoding — EAGLE MTP (3 steps / 4 draft tokens)

Verifying Reasoning

Same flow on both variants — same model, same --dyn-reasoning-parser deepseek_v4. On the vLLM variant, omit chat_template_kwargs.thinking (or set it to false) per the Day-0 caveat:

curl -s http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is 2+2? Answer briefly."}],
    "max_tokens": 200
  }' | python3 -m json.tool

Expected:

  • choices[0].message.reasoning_content contains the model's chain-of-thought.
  • choices[0].message.content contains only the final answer.
  • No raw </think> tags in either field.

If reasoning_content is null and </think> appears in content, the reasoning parser isn't wired up — confirm --dyn-reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 is on the worker command.

Verifying Tool Calling

Same flow on both variants:

curl -s http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in San Francisco?"}],
    "tools": [{
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "description": "Get the current weather for a location",
        "parameters": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "location": {"type": "string", "description": "City name"}
          },
          "required": ["location"]
        }
      }
    }],
    "max_tokens": 300
  }' | python3 -m json.tool

Expected:

  • choices[0].message.tool_calls is a structured array with function.name, function.arguments, and id.
  • choices[0].finish_reason is "tool_calls".
  • choices[0].message.reasoning_content may contain the model's reasoning about tool selection.

If tool_calls is missing and raw tool-call markers appear in content, confirm --dyn-tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 is on the worker command.

Notes

Common

  • Storage class. Update storageClassName in model-cache/model-cache.yaml to a RWX class that can serve the PVC to Frontend and worker pods.
  • Model size. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro is ~865 GB on disk (64 safetensors shards in FP4+FP8 mixed form). The 1500Gi PVC leaves ~1.7x headroom for HF cache metadata and one alternate revision.
  • Parser flags. Use the Dynamo variants on the worker (--dyn-reasoning-parser, --dyn-tool-call-parser). Each engine's native --reasoning-parser / --tool-call-parser are engine-side and do not feed the Dynamo OpenAI renderer.
  • Offline model cache. Both workers run with HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 so the engine reads cached weights from the PVC and never contacts the HF Hub at startup. The HF token secret is mounted defensively; it isn't required at runtime once the download Job has completed.
  • First launch is slow. Decode workers load weights across 8 TP ranks and warm CUDA graphs / DeepGEMM kernels on first launch; the manifests' startup probes allow ~60–90 min before failing readiness.

vLLM-specific

  • Prebuilt images. All three vLLM manifests (vllm/agg/b200/, vllm/agg/gb200/, vllm/disagg/gb200/) reference nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/vllm-runtime:1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda13-dev.3 (multi-arch). To rebuild from source (custom Dynamo branch, different vLLM base, etc.), see <repo_root>/container/README.md.
  • Engine-ready timeout. VLLM_ENGINE_READY_TIMEOUT_S=5400 is set to match the startup probe budget (failureThreshold: 540 at periodSeconds: 10).
  • FlashInfer autotune. --no-enable-flashinfer-autotune skips per-shape FlashInfer autotuning at startup and is set on every vLLM worker (prefill and decode). Required on dsv4: the autotuner currently produces tunings that regress GSM8k accuracy. Skipping it also shortens first-launch warmup.
  • GB200: agg vs. disagg. Both spread V4-Pro across two GB200 NVL4 trays via MNNVL/ComputeDomain. The agg variant runs one TP=8 group across both nodes (lower-latency, simpler topology, 2 pods); the disagg variant runs separate prefill and decode DP=8 workers (higher steady-state throughput at high concurrency, 4 pods). Use the agg variant for general-purpose serving and the disagg variant when prefill/decode separation pays off for the workload.

SGLang-specific

  • Prebuilt image. sglang/agg/deploy.yaml already references the public NGC tag nvcr.io/nvidia/ai-dynamo/sglang-runtime:1.2.0-deepseek-v4-cuda12-dev.3. To rebuild (custom Dynamo branch, different SGLang base, etc.), see recipes/deepseek-v4/container/README.md.
  • DeepGEMM / FlashInfer warmup. SGLANG_JIT_DEEPGEMM_PRECOMPILE=0 + SGLANG_JIT_DEEPGEMM_FAST_WARMUP=1 skip the slow precompile and use the fast warmup path. --disable-flashinfer-autotune skips per-shape FlashInfer autotuning at startup; the dsv4 base ships pre-tuned defaults.
  • NCCL / Gloo. NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE=1 is set for V4 NCCL collectives on Blackwell. GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=eth0 pins Gloo to the standard pod interface.

Sibling Recipe

DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the smaller sibling (284B / 13B active, 4x B200) and shares the same dsv4 vLLM and SGLang container images.