DeepSeek v4 Flash on 8xH100: vLLM Tuning Bottlenecks

SlipperyCorruptor · reddit · 2026-08-08

A developer encountered performance bottlenecks while deploying the latest DeepSeek v4 Flash model using vLLM on an 8xH100 node. The poster noted that tweaking batching parameters led to a trade-off between prefill and decode phases.

They suspect the core issue lies in scheduling and expert routing, asking the community for pointers on how to extract maximum inference performance from the model on an 8xH100 cluster.

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