Qwen3.5-9B vision-language served FP8 on ana-ml2 GPU1 (co-located with
granite + the embed/rerank/reward trio; GPU0 kept free for hot-loading
large models), :8007, fronted by LiteLLM as qwen3.5-9b-fp8.
Pinned to vllm/vllm-openai nightly@sha256:49211ab2 — :latest (v0.19.1)
quantizes the VL vision tower under fp8 and garbles vision; the nightly
correctly excludes it (LM stays FP8, vision tower BF16). util 0.40
(~38GB) on the shared card (vLLM needs free>=util*total here). Vision
verified end-to-end through the gateway.
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