2026-11-12Score update
v2026.4.1 — Re-weighting ARS for sleep/resume regressions
After 6 weeks of fleet telemetry, we increased the weight of wake/sleep stability inside ARS. Three devices moved by more than 4 points.
Read note →Field notes from the bench.
Score updates, firmware advisories, and cluster playbooks — written by the people running the tests.
2026-11-04Firmware advisory
Dell Precision S16 firmware 1.04.2 breaks GPU offload on vLLM
Rolling back to 1.04.1 restores 22 tok/s on Llama-3.1-70B Q4. Dell has acknowledged; fix expected in 1.04.3.
Read note →2026-10-21Field test
We ran a 72-hour multi-agent stress test on the MSI Spark Titan
Zero crashes, 1.4°C thermal headroom at p99. Setting the new ARS ceiling at 90 until something beats it.
Read note →2026-10-10Cluster playbook
A 2-node 64GB Spark pair, end to end
Cables, switch, NCCL flags, vLLM tensor-parallel config, and the gotchas we hit on day three.
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