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reederey87/dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash

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2ShellAudience · ops devopsComplexity · 5/5LicenseSetup · hard

TLDR

A documented setup kit to run a large DeepSeek AI model across two linked NVIDIA DGX Spark machines.

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    What it does
      Two-node model serving
      OpenAI-compatible API
      Automated cluster ops
    Tech stack
      Shell scripts
      vLLM
      NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
    Use cases
      Serve a large LLM locally
      Multi-machine inference
      Long context AI serving
    Audience
      ML infrastructure engineers
      DGX Spark hardware owners

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Deploy a large DeepSeek language model across two linked DGX Spark machines acting as one server.

USE CASE 2

Serve an OpenAI-compatible chat API from self hosted hardware for private or research use.

USE CASE 3

Handle very long conversation context using the model's extended context capability.

USE CASE 4

Run automated cluster monitoring and self healing so the service restarts itself if it fails.

What is it built with?

ShellvLLMCUDADocker ComposesystemdNCCL

How does it compare?

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Stars222
LanguageShellShellShell
Setup difficultyhardeasyhard
Complexity5/52/55/5
Audienceops devopsdeveloperops devops

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires two NVIDIA DGX Spark machines connected by a dedicated high speed network cable, plus SSH access from a control host.

Apache 2.0 license: free to use, modify, and redistribute, including for commercial purposes, as long as you keep attribution notices.

In plain English

This project is a step by step deployment kit for running a large AI language model called DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark across two NVIDIA DGX Spark computers connected together as one machine. It does not contain the AI model itself or the serving software, instead it provides scripts, configuration files, and documentation that pull those pieces from other sources and wire them together correctly on this specific two machine hardware setup. The two computers are linked by a single fast network cable and work together using a technique called tensor parallelism, splitting the model's work across both machines so they act as one inference engine. One machine, called the head, exposes an interface that looks like the well known OpenAI API, while the other, the worker, does not accept outside connections and only helps process requests behind the scenes. Setting this up is a multi stage process run mostly from a separate control computer over a remote connection. The steps include preparing each machine, verifying the network connection between them works correctly at full speed, building the software image both machines will run, downloading the AI model's weight files, distributing everything to both machines, and finally starting the service. After that, background system services keep the cluster running automatically and can restart it if something goes wrong. The README is explicit that this is an experimental, mostly one person maintained project built on fast changing, prebuilt components, and that its own performance measurements only reflect one specific pair of machines rather than a general guarantee. It documents a number of adjustable settings that control things like how much conversation history the model can consider and how many requests it can handle at once, along with guidance on which combinations reduce the risk of running out of GPU memory. This project is aimed at engineers with access to this exact expensive dual DGX Spark hardware who want a documented, repeatable way to serve this specific large model. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows free use, modification, and redistribution, including commercially.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through the setup steps in this README to bring up the two-node cluster from scratch.
Prompt 2
Explain what tensor parallelism means in the context of this dual DGX Spark setup.
Prompt 3
Help me understand the GPU_MEMORY_UTILIZATION and MAX_MODEL_LEN settings and how they affect memory usage.
Prompt 4
Explain the difference between the head node and the worker node in this cluster design.
Prompt 5
What should I check before relying on this project's performance numbers for my own hardware?

Frequently asked questions

What is dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash?

A documented setup kit to run a large DeepSeek AI model across two linked NVIDIA DGX Spark machines.

What language is dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash written in?

Mainly Shell. The stack also includes Shell, vLLM, CUDA.

What license does dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash use?

Apache 2.0 license: free to use, modify, and redistribute, including for commercial purposes, as long as you keep attribution notices.

How hard is dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is dgx-spark-2x-deepseek-v4-flash for?

Mainly ops devops.

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