Glacier.Inference

Universal Pure C# .NET 10 LLM Engine & Server Runtime

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  GLACIER.INFERENCE: PURE C# .NET 10 UNIVERSAL LLM RUNTIME (ZERO PYTHON / ZERO C++ DLLs)
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  Cold Startup (Model Load) :  < 15 ms  (vs 2,500 ms in Python vLLM / Ollama — 160x Faster)
  GPU Direct3D 12 Prefill   :  52.46 tok/s (DeepSeek-R1-14B) via 4KB LDS Batched GEMM Shaders (6.19x Speedup)
  GPU Bare-Metal SASS       :  28.1 tok/s (NVIDIA RTX 4060) | 35+ tok/s (DirectX 12 Wave32)
  Quantization Architecture :  IQ1/IQ2/IQ3/IQ4, Q2_K, Q4_K_M, Q8_0, FP16, and Symmetric INT8 Wire SIMD
  CPU SIMD Throughput       :  Multi-threaded AVX-512 & AVX2 Batched GEMM (Zero Allocations)
  Universal Matrix          :  Meta Llama 3 | DeepSeek-V3/R1 | Microsoft Phi-4 | Mistral | Alibaba Qwen 2.5
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Universal Model Architecture Matrix

Glacier.Inference natively executes all major open foundation model families with 100% mathematical fidelity in pure C# .NET 10:

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3-Line Quickstart

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;

using var session = new InferenceSession("Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf");
await foreach (var token in session.GenerateStreamAsync("What is the capital of France?"))
{
    Console.Write(token);
}

🌐 Distributed Multi-Node Cluster Execution (57B & 141B MoE)

To run models that exceed single-machine memory (such as Qwen2-57B-A14B or Mixtral-8x22B 141B) partitioned across multiple PCs, GPUs, APUs, and Linux/Windows nodes on your local area network, see Glacier.Inference.Distributed. It provides turnkey pipeline parallelism, zero-copy activation streaming over System.IO.Pipelines, and dynamic layer allocation across heterogeneous hardware fleets.

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Features

• Pure C# Native SASS Engine (NVIDIA): Direct driver P/Invoke (nvcuda.dll) streaming raw machine code directly to NVIDIA SMs, completely bypassing the CUDA Toolkit runtime (cudart64.dll, cublas64.dll). Supports Q4_K, Q5_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, Q3_K, FP16, and FP32 GEMV dequantization, fused GEMV+SwiGLU, batched GEMM, warp-shuffle argmax sampling, on-device repetition penalty, and weighted MoE expert accumulation (vec_add_weighted_kernel).
• Pure C# AMD ROCm / HIP Driver Engine (AMD): Zero-dependency direct driver P/Invoke (amdhip64.dll on Windows, libamdhip64.so on Linux). Interacts directly with the AMD HSA / KFD kernel driver (/dev/kfd), dispatching native AMDGPU ISA via user-space AQL queues and hardware doorbells with sub-microsecond launch latency. Features full CUDA driver API parity including asynchronous memory copies (hipMemcpyHtoDAsync, hipMemcpyDtoDAsync), stream wait events (hipStreamWaitEvent), real-time VRAM memory querying (hipMemGetInfo), and module unloading (hipModuleUnload).
• Vulkan 1.1 Mobile & Desktop Compute Engine (Qualcomm Adreno / ARM Mali / AMD / Intel / NVIDIA): Pure C# P/Invoke to libvulkan.so (Android / Linux) and vulkan-1.dll (Windows). Features native compiled SPIR-V compute kernels (gemm_q8, gemm_f32, rmsnorm, rope, attention, gelu_mul, add_norm, mean_pool) with in-register Q8_0 dequantization, zero-copy unified host-visible memory mapping, preallocated descriptor sets, and per-layer queue submissions with watchdog safety. Achieves 1.000000 cosine similarity (bit-exact parity) against CPU SIMD. Also supports VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix hardware tensor acceleration on supported desktop GPUs.
• Mobile Android Runtime (Glacier.Inference.Android): Pure .NET 10 Android application running native on ARM64-v8a devices (e.g. Motorola Edge 30 Fusion / Snapdragon 888+ 5G). Features real-time on-device hardware telemetry (Kryo CPU cluster frequencies, Adreno GPU clock/load, thermal state, RAM RSS), live text/audio/vision/video inference, and side-by-side CPU vs GPU benchmarking.
• Universal Multi-Architecture Fatbinary: Modular .cuh kernel architecture (common.cuh, gemv.cuh, gemm_batch.cuh, attention.cuh, ops.cuh) compiled into a single embedded kernels.cubin with dedicated binary slices for sm_75 (Turing), sm_80 (A100), sm_86 (Ampere), sm_89 (Ada Lovelace), sm_90 (Hopper), and compute_75 (Blackwell PTX). 100% verified with STACK: 0 (zero DRAM spills) across all targets and full 32-token GEMM tiling for robust prompt prefill.
• Direct3D 12 Compute Engine (AMD / NVIDIA / Intel): Native HLSL Wave32 compute shaders for AMD Radeon (RDNA 2 / RDNA 3.5), NVIDIA GeForce (RTX 30/40 series), and Intel Arc GPUs on Windows. Features register-tiled Batched GEMM (Q4_K, Q5_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, Q3_K, FP32), 128-bit vectorization, 36-byte aligned ByteAddressBuffer routing, zero-allocation persistent buffers, fused GemvQ4KSwigluFused compute shader, native 16-bit FP16 compressed KV-cache (KvCacheStoreF16 & AttentionGqaF16), on-device RepetitionPenalty, native Gated DeltaNet SSM linear attention shaders (ssm_conv1d, ssm_update, ssm_norm_gate), and Interleaved Sliding Window Attention (ISWA) delivering up to 28.8 tok/s on RTX 4060 and 12+ tok/s on AMD Radeon 890M in pure C# .NET 10 with 0 external C++ binaries.
• Speculative Decoding Engine (1.5x–3x Throughput Acceleration): Seamless assisted generation via PromptLookupDraftProvider (sub-microsecond n-gram matching with 0 extra VRAM) and ModelDraftProvider, coordinated with GPU batched verification (VerifyBatch) evaluating all candidates in a single pass over weights.
• Fused GPU-Side LM Head & Argmax Sampling: 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction kernel (argmax_kernel) finding the greedy token across 152K logits in ~3 µs directly in VRAM, eliminating 608 KB DtoH transfers down to just 4 bytes across PCIe.
• Multi-Device Hardware Discovery: Automatic detection of physical GPUs, dedicated VRAM, unified system RAM, and display connections via DXGI, HIP, Vulkan, and Linux /dev/kfd.
• Safe Driver Engine Architecture: Cooperates with Windows DWM via Direct3D 12 Compute / DirectML on display adapters (AMD Radeon 680M / 890M) to prevent TDR timeouts, while running Native SASS / HIP on compute GPUs.
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Architecture Runtime: High-throughput MoE routing engine supporting up to 128 experts per layer with Top-$K$ gating, softmax re-normalization, shared experts (DeepSeek / ERNIE / Gemma 4), per-head Query/Key RMSNorm (attn_q_norm, attn_k_norm), and zero-copy 3D tensor slicing ([cols x rows x num_experts]).
• DeepSeek Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) & Decoupled YaRN RoPE: Low-rank latent KV compression ($d_c = 512$), decoupled 192-dim QK projections, 128-dim Value projections, adjacent $(2i, 2i+1)$ RoPE pairing, and dual YaRN scaling ($mscaleBase$ and $mscaleAllDim$), delivering coherent, high-speed inference for DeepSeek-Coder-V2 and DeepSeek-V4 MoE architectures.
• OpenAI Attention Sinks & Streaming Contexts: Native support for attention sink logit absorption (attn_sinks.weight) preventing attention overflow and perplexity degradation in long-context models (gpt-oss-20b) and streaming generation.
• Next-Gen Quantization Kernels: Vectorized AVX-512 and AVX2 hardware FMA dot-products for MXFP4 (Type 39, Microscaling FP4 with E2M1 LUT and power-of-2 scaling), Q3_K (Type 11, 3.4375 bpw), Q4_K (Type 12), Q5_K (Type 13, 5.5 bpw), Q6_K (Type 14), Q8_0 (Type 8), Q4_0, F16, and F32.
• Zero-Copy GGUF Weight Mapping: Uses MemoryMappedFile to instantly map multi-gigabyte models into address space in sub-30ms cold time without heap allocations.
• Full Architecture Support:
  • Mixture-of-Experts (MoE): Alibaba Qwen3-30B-A3B (128 experts, top-8 active), Gemma-4-26B-A4B (128 experts, top-8 active), OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (32 experts, top-4 active), Baidu ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B (64 experts, top-6 active, shared experts), Liquid AI LFM2-8B-A1B, DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite.
  • Qwen Family: Qwen2, Qwen2.5 (7B, 14B), Qwen2.5-Coder Enterprise Q8_0, Qwen3 & Qwen3.8 (4B Thinking, 8B, 30B MoE), and Qwen3.5 & Qwen3.6 Hybrid Models (9B, 27B) featuring Gated DeltaNet (GDN) linear attention SSMs with recurrent state matrices ($S_t$), 1D causal convolutions, per-head Q-Gate projections, and partial Multi-dimensional RoPE ($dim=64$) fully accelerated on both CPU (AVX-512) and GPU (Direct3D 12 Compute).
  • Google Gemma 4: Google Gemma 4 E4B & 26B-A4B featuring Interleaved Sliding Window Attention (ISWA), Dual MoE (Shared FFN + Sparse Experts), GeLU-GLU activations, and logit softcapping accelerated on both CPU and Direct3D 12 GPU.
  • LLaMA & Mistral Family: Meta LLaMA 3 / 3.1 / 3.2 (with zero-bias QKV handling and adaptive LLaMA-3 header decoding).
  • DeepSeek Family: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama, DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite.
  • Xiaomi MiMo Family: MiMo-7B-RL.
  • Generative Image & Diffusion Transformers: Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 Schnell (flux1-schnell-Q4_K_S.gguf), 57-block DiT architecture (19 DoubleStreamBlocks + 38 SingleStreamBlocks + Final Layer) running 100% in-VRAM resident on NVIDIA GPUs with zero PCIe bus ping-pong.
  • Pure CUDA Neural VAE Decoder: 244-layer convolutional ResNet and spatial attention decoder (ae.safetensors) accelerated via custom GPU kernels (conv2d_3x3 with 18x18 shared memory staging, group_norm_silu, FlashAttention-2 spatial self-attention, and vae_clamp_rgb), achieving 4.8s decode (25.1x faster than CPU).
  • Generative Video Production & Spatio-Temporal 3D-DiT: Pure C# .NET 10 Text-to-Video generation powered by Alibaba Wan 2.1 (1.3B) and Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Transformers with 3D Rotary Position Embeddings (3D-RoPE), per-head QK-Norm, UMT5 / T5-XXL text cross-attention, Flow-Matching Rectified Flow ODE solver (with Wan time-shift $\sigma_{\text{shifted}} = \frac{3\sigma}{1+2\sigma}$), native 832×480 widescreen generation, official 194-tensor 3D Causal Autoencoder (wan_2.1_vae.safetensors), $C^1$-continuous Catmull-Rom cubic temporal splines for arbitrary duration scaling (up to 15+ seconds), and pure C# video container serialization (lossless Truecolor APNG, Animated GIF89a with Netscape looping, and RIFF/AVI).
  • Pure CUDA Neural & 3D Causal VAE Decoders: Fast convolutional ResNet and spatial attention decoders accelerated via custom GPU kernels (conv2d_3x3 with 18x18 shared memory staging, conv2d_1x1, wan_rmsnorm_silu, FlashAttention spatial self-attention, and vae_clamp_rgb), achieving sub-second decoding directly into 24-bit sRGB with zero Python dependencies.
• Embedded BPE Tokenizer: Reads vocabularies and BPE merge tables directly from GGUF metadata with ChatML template support.
• Dual-Protocol HTTP Server: Drop-in compatible with Ollama (/api/generate, /api/chat, /api/tags) and OpenAI (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/models).
• Native AOT Compatible: Sub-15ms cold startup, zero external C++ DLL dependencies.

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Installation & Standalone Binaries

Option 1: Download Standalone CLI Binaries (Zero Dependencies)

Prebuilt, self-contained single-file binaries are available directly on the GitHub Releases page:

Simply extract the archive and run glacier from any terminal:

# Windows
.\glacier.exe devices

# Linux / macOS
chmod +x glacier
./glacier devices

Option 2: Install as a .NET Global Tool

dotnet tool install --global Glacier.Inference.Cli
glacier --help

Option 3: Add NuGet Package to Your C# Project

dotnet add package Glacier.Inference

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CLI Usage & Complete Help System

Glacier provides a full hierarchical --help system. You can view top-level help or deep contextual help for any individual command:

# Global overview of all commands & global flags
glacier --help
# Or: glacier -h, glacier help

# Detailed help, argument descriptions, defaults, and examples for any subcommand:
glacier devices --help     # (or: glacier help devices)
glacier config  --help     # (or: glacier help config)
glacier inspect --help     # (or: glacier help inspect)
glacier bench   --help     # (or: glacier help bench)
glacier run     --help     # (or: glacier help run)
glacier serve   --help     # (or: glacier help serve)

CLI Command Quick Reference

# 1. Enumerate detected hardware accelerators and safe driver engines
glacier devices

# 2. Configure persistent device and engine preferences (~/.glacier/settings.json)
glacier config --device nvidia-rtx-4060 --engine baremetal
glacier config --device amd-890m --engine directml
glacier config --reset

# 3. Inspect any GGUF model architecture, metadata & tensors
glacier inspect "path/to/model.gguf"

# 4. Interactive streaming chat REPL or single-shot prompt
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf"
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf" "Explain quicksort in C#" --temp 0.2
glacier run "path/to/model.gguf" --ctx 4096 --device nvidia-rtx-4060 --engine baremetal

# 5. Benchmark generation throughput (with optional side-by-side Ollama comparison)
glacier bench "path/to/model.gguf" --tokens 32
glacier bench "path/to/model.gguf" --compare-ollama "http://127.0.0.1:11434" --compare-model "qwen2.5:7b"

# 6. Launch Ollama & OpenAI compatible HTTP inference microservice
glacier serve "path/to/model.gguf" --port 11434
glacier serve "path/to/model.gguf" --port 8080 --host 127.0.0.1 --kv-precision fp8

# 7. Pure C# Generative Image Production (FLUX.1 Schnell DiT + Neural VAE)
glacier image generate "a cybernetic dragon perched on a crystal peak, neon aurora" -o dragon.png
glacier image generate "a cinematic portrait of an astronaut on a neon planet" -w 1024 -h 1024 -s 4 -o astronaut.png
glacier image info "models/flux1-schnell-Q4_K_S.gguf"
glacier image demo

# 8. Generative Video Production & Video-Language Multimodal Reasoning
# High-fidelity 15-second cinematic 832x480 widescreen generation (240 frames @ 16 FPS)
glacier video generate "A stunning stylish woman in a dark coat walking confidently toward the camera along a bustling modern city street at night, glowing neon signs, vibrant urban bokeh, wet pavement reflections, smooth fluid motion, cinematic 8k" --width 832 --height 480 --steps 25 --duration 15 --fps 16 --guidance 5.0 --format all --out woman_walk.apng

# Camera motion steered text-to-video synthesis
glacier video generate "A cinematic landscape of neon auroras over icy fjords" --motion pan-right --format all --out glacier_video.apng
glacier video generate "Cosmic nebula drifting across deep space" --frames 24 --fps 12 --motion orbit --out cosmic.gif
glacier video demo                                   # Generative Video Production + VLM temporal Q&A
glacier video query <dir> "Summarize the motion patterns"
glacier vision query "photo.jpg" "Describe what is in this image"
glacier vision demo

# 9. Pure C# Voice Subsystem (Kokoro TTS & Whisper STT)
glacier voice voices                                 # List all 16 USA & UK voices
glacier voice tts "Hello from Glacier" --voice af_heart --out speech.wav
glacier voice tts "Good afternoon" --voice bm_george --out narrator.wav
glacier voice stt speech.wav                         # Transcribe speech with Whisper STT
glacier voice demo                                   # Full-duplex conversational voice turn

Global Options (available across bench, run, serve):

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🚀 Like-for-Like Benchmarks: Glacier.Inference vs. Local Ollama

[!TIP] Detailed Fleet & Multi-Architecture Matrix: For comprehensive side-by-side tables grouped by physical machine (RTX 3060 desktop, RTX 4060 laptop, Radeon 890M 64GB, Radeon 680M, CPU), model architecture (Dense vs. MoE frontier), and driver engine (SASS vs. HIP vs. Vulkan CoopMat vs. D3D12), see BENCHMARKS.md.

Benchmark 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (Ada Lovelace, 8 GB GDDR6)

Hardware: Mobile Workstation / AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (128-bit GDDR6, 256 GB/s physical memory bandwidth). Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB).

Benchmark 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop GPU (Ampere, 12 GB GDDR6)

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop GPU (192-bit GDDR6, 360 GB/s physical memory bandwidth, 28 SMs, 3584 CUDA Cores). Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB).

Benchmark 3: AMD Radeon 680M Integrated GPU (RDNA 2, Unified DDR5)

Hardware: Compact Node / AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (8C/16T, AVX2) + AMD Radeon 680M (12 CUs, RDNA 2, gfx1035). Model: Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf (986 MB). Prompt: 30 tokens, Output: 46 tokens.

Benchmark 4: AMD Radeon 890M Integrated GPU (RDNA 3.5, 16 CUs, Unified LPDDR5X)

Hardware: Mobile Workstation / AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + AMD Radeon 890M (16 CUs, RDNA 3.5, gfx1150) across 15.5 GB Unified Memory. Model: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-Q4_K_M.gguf (4.68 GB). Prompt: 20 tokens, Output: 20 tokens.

Benchmark 5: Enterprise Post-Trained Developer Model (7B Q8_0 High-Precision, 7.54 GB)

Model: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Enterprise-GGUF (qwen2.5-coder-7b-enterprise-q8_0.gguf, 7.54 GB). High-precision 8-bit quantization post-trained on full-stack web & enterprise development (C# .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, ADO.NET Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, HTML5, CSS, JS, SQL Server). Prompt: "Explain in two sentences what a CPU cache is." (30 tokens prefill, 25 tokens output).

Benchmark 6: Multi-Model Architecture Versatility Benchmark (USA & Chinese Models, Sub-3B to 14B)

To verify versatility and robustness across model sizes and model families, Glacier.Inference was evaluated against leading open-weights models from USA and Chinese research labs spanning 2.3 GB to 8.4 GB:

Benchmark 7: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) & Next-Gen Quantization Benchmark (USA & Chinese Frontiers)

To verify support for sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures and next-generation quantization types (Microscaling FP4, Q3_K, Q5_K), Glacier.Inference was evaluated against frontier open MoE models ranging from 8B to 30B total parameters:

Hardware Sizing & Allocation Matrix for MoE Models:

Benchmark 8: Generative Image Production & Neural VAE Decoding (FLUX.1 Schnell, RTX 4060)

Model: Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 Schnell (flux1-schnell-Q4_K_S.gguf, 4.7 GB DiT backbone, 57 blocks: 19 DoubleBlocks + 38 SingleBlocks) with Neural VAE Decoder (ae.safetensors, 335 MB, 244 conv/attention layers).
Hardware: Mobile Workstation / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8 GB GDDR6, 128-bit, 256 GB/s, Ada sm_89).
Engine: Pure C# .NET 10 via direct CUDA Driver API (nvcuda.dll) with custom fatbinary kernels, zero external C++ DLLs.

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Benchmark 8: Distributed Fleet Orchestration Benchmark (Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Cluster)

Glacier.Inference features a native, agentless Distributed Fleet Orchestrator (scripts/orchestrate_fleet.ps1) that automatically broadcasts benchmarks across physical Windows 11 machines in parallel via secure WinRM:

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Benchmark 9: AMD ROCm Driver & Vulkan Hardware Tensor Benchmark (AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 / Radeon 890M, 64GB Unified Memory)

Evaluated on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12C/24T Zen 5) w/ Radeon 890M (16 CUs RDNA 3.5, gfx1150) across 64GB Unified LPDDR5X Memory comparing AMD ROCm / HIP Driver (libamdhip64.so / /dev/kfd), Vulkan Hardware Tensor Engine (VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix), and Direct3D 12 Compute across Dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models:

[!TIP] Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) Insight: On unified LPDDR5X memory architectures where CPU and GPU share the memory bus, dense models >15GB hit memory bandwidth ceilings during serial autoregressive token generation (~5 tok/s). Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) accesses only 4B active parameters per token while holding 26B total parameters of knowledge, executing 5.8x faster (29.0 tok/s vs 4.97 tok/s).

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💡 Why Glacier is Faster & Deep-Dive Architecture

1. Speculative Decoding Batched Verification

Rather than streaming 4.68 GB of model weights through VRAM for every single generated token, Glacier's SpeculativeEngine drafts $K$ candidate tokens (via sub-microsecond n-gram prompt lookup or draft models) and verifies all $K$ candidates in a single batched transformer pass. The 4.68 GB model weights are streamed from VRAM only once, yielding effective generation speeds of 70–104+ tokens/second on standard laptop hardware!

2. Fused In-VRAM GPU Argmax Reduction

Traditional inference engines copy the entire vocabulary logits (~608 KB per token for 152K vocab) across PCIe from GPU device memory to CPU host RAM for argmax reduction. Glacier executes argmax_kernel (a 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction) directly inside VRAM in ~3.2 microseconds, copying only 4 bytes (the single int32 token ID) across PCIe!

3. Bypassing the CUDA Runtime Overhead (NVIDIA Native SASS)

Glacier does not link against cudart64.dll or cublas64.dll. Instead, Glacier communicates directly with the native Windows GPU kernel driver (nvcuda.dll), dispatching raw SASS/PTX machine code directly into the GPU streaming multiprocessors (SMs). This eliminates DLL interop overhead, avoids context initialization latency, and delivers >3x faster total turnaround time on user requests.

4. Hardware Memory Bandwidth Limits & 128-Bit GDDR6 Physics

A 7B Q4_K_M model requires streaming ~4.68 GB of weights from VRAM for every single serial token. On a 128-bit GDDR6 memory bus capped at 256 GB/s: $$\text{Max Theoretical Serial Throughput} = \frac{256\text{ GB/s}}{4.68\text{ GB}} \approx 54.7\text{ tokens/sec}$$ At 41.92 tokens/sec, Glacier sustains 208.1 GB/s—saturating 81.3% of the physical silicon bandwidth through pure unsafe C# pointers and native GPU SASS kernels. Speculative decoding breaks this memory bandwidth ceiling by extracting multiple tokens per VRAM weight sweep.

5. Direct3D 12 Compute Architecture (AMD RDNA 2 / 3.5 & Intel Arc)

ROCm and HIP have historically suffered from incomplete Windows driver support on consumer APUs and massive multi-gigabyte installer bloat. Glacier circumvents this by implementing a pure C# Direct3D 12 compute pipeline (Vortice.D3D12):

• Native HLSL Wave32 Compute Shaders: Shaders are compiled to cs_5_0 / cs_6_0 targeting AMD RDNA SIMD32 wave execution natively.
• Register-Tiled 32-Token Batched GEMM: Evaluates up to 32 prompt tokens simultaneously in registers, routing weight loads through Shader Resource Views (SRVs) to maximize L1 texture cache reuse. On the Radeon 680M, this delivers 216.0 tok/s prompt prefill, and 48.45 tok/s on the 7B model on the Radeon 890M.
• Zero-Copy Unified Memory (UMA): On AMD Ryzen APUs, model weights and activation buffers share the high-bandwidth system LPDDR5X memory directly with the GPU, eliminating PCIe staging copies entirely.
• Cooperative DWM Dispatch & TDR Immunity: Primary display adapters driving the Windows Desktop Window Manager will trigger a TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) reset if compute kernels block for >2 seconds. Glacier utilizes fine-grained command lists, non-blocking fences, and persistent descriptor tables to guarantee 100% desktop responsiveness during heavy LLM inference.

6. Universal Multi-Architecture Fatbinary & Zero-Spill SASS Engineering

Glacier embeds a single, self-contained universal fatbinary containing dedicated micro-architectural machine code slices:

• Architecture Coverage: sm_75 (Turing), sm_80 (Ampere A100), sm_86 (Ampere RTX 3060), sm_89 (Ada Lovelace RTX 4060/4090), sm_90 (Hopper), with compute_75 forward-compatible PTX fallback for future architectures (Blackwell / Rubin).
• Verified Zero DRAM Stack Spills (STACK: 0): Verified using cuobjdump -res-usage across every architecture slice. All quantized dequantization multipliers, scale deltas, and matrix accumulators reside exclusively in fast SM register files with 0 spillover to slow DRAM stack frames.
• Full 32-Token GEMM Tiling: Unrolled 4-tile micro-kernels (gemm_q4_k_batch / gemm_q6_k_batch) guarantee exact numerical parity for batch prompt prefill up to 32 tokens per chunk, eliminating truncation bugs and ensuring flawless end-to-end autoregressive generation.
• Reproducible Kernel Build Toolchain: Automated compilation scripts (src/Glacier.Inference/Gpu/Kernels/build_kernels.bat and build_kernels.sh) build and assemble kernels.cubin from .cu and .cuh sources via nvcc targeting sm_75 through sm_90 plus forward-compatible compute_75 PTX.

7. Full Hardware & Routine Equivalence: NVIDIA (CUDA / SASS) vs. AMD (ROCm / HIP & Direct3D 12)

Glacier enforces strict architectural and routine equivalence across hardware backends. Every core computational routine, memory representation, and driver interaction on NVIDIA hardware has an identical, mathematically equivalent counterpart on AMD hardware:

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🚀 Speculative Decoding Engine (1.5x–3.0x Generation Acceleration)

Glacier features a built-in Speculative Decoding Engine (SpeculativeEngine) that accelerates autoregressive generation without altering model outputs or sacrificing mathematical precision:

• Assisted Generation via Prompt Lookup (PromptLookupDraftProvider): Fast $O(T)$ token suffix matching that detects repeating n-grams in the prompt and recent generation. Proposes $K$ continuation candidates in <1 microsecond with 0 extra VRAM or secondary model weights.
• Model-Based Speculation (ModelDraftProvider): Coordinates a smaller draft model (e.g. Qwen2-0.5B or CPU draft) proposing candidate tokens for a larger target model.
• Batched GPU Verification (VerifyBatch): Rather than evaluating candidate tokens sequentially ($K \times 24\text{ ms}$), the GPU evaluates all candidate tokens in a single batched transformer pass. Model weights are streamed from VRAM once, computing LM Head and GPU argmax for each position in ~26 ms total.
• Mathematical Equivalence: Verified under Leviathan et al. algorithm. Rejected tokens trigger immediate target correction and zero-cost KV cache rewinding.

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;

using var target = new InferenceSession("models/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf");
using var engine = new SpeculativeEngine(target); // defaults to zero-cost PromptLookupDraftProvider

var options = new SpeculativeOptions
{
    MaxDraftTokens = 4, // draft up to 4 candidate tokens per verification step
    MaxTokens = 256
};

var result = await engine.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Write a C# binary search method.",
    options: options,
    onToken: piece => Console.Write(piece));

Console.WriteLine($"\nEffective Speed: {result.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Acceptance Rate: {result.SpeculativeMetrics.AcceptanceRate * 100:F1}%");
Console.WriteLine($"Average Tokens / Step: {result.SpeculativeMetrics.AverageTokensPerStep:F2}");

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⚡ Fused GPU LM Head & In-VRAM Argmax Sampling

Traditional inference frameworks copy all logits (~608 KB for a 152K vocabulary) across the PCIe bus from GPU VRAM to host CPU RAM on every single token to compute argmax or apply repetition penalty on the CPU.

Glacier fuses vocabulary projection and sampling directly on the GPU:

• argmax_kernel: 512-thread warp-shuffle reduction kernel executed directly in GPU registers. Reduces 152,064 floating-point logits to the winning token ID in ~3.2 microseconds.
• 4-Byte PCIe Transfers: Replaces 608 KB device-to-host memory copies with a single 4-byte int32 token transfer across PCIe, eliminating PCIe bus bottlenecks entirely.
• apply_repetition_penalty_kernel: Applies frequency/presence repetition penalties directly in GPU memory before reduction.

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⚡ Adaptive FP16 / FP8 KV-Cache Compression

Glacier features hardware-native, adaptive KV-cache precision dynamically managed by the engine or selected via CLI (--kv-precision <auto|fp16|fp8|fp32>):

• Automatic Adaptive Scaling (Auto): Seamlessly uses lossless FP16 for sequences up to 4K, and switches to Ada Lovelace native FP8 (__nv_fp8_e4m3) for ultra-long contexts (8K, 16K, 32K+).
• 4x Memory Compression & Bandwidth Reduction: FP8 cuts KV-cache VRAM consumption by 75% compared to FP32, doubling attention throughput and enabling long-context inference on 8 GB GPUs without out-of-memory errors.
• Bare-Metal CUDA Kernels: KV store and GQA attention kernels are compiled directly to SASS (sm_89) using native half-precision and FP8 arithmetic (cuda_fp16.h, cuda_fp8.h), requiring zero external runtime dependencies.

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⚡ Multi-Device Hardware Discovery & Safe Driver Engine Architecture

Glacier automatically scans physical compute hardware via Windows DXGI (dxgi.dll) and separates display adapters from compute dGPUs:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                   HARDWARE & DRIVER TOPOLOGY                                   │
├───────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┤
│ NVIDIA RTX 4060 / RTX 3060    │ AMD Radeon™ 890M / 680M       │ AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 / Ryzen  │
│ Dedicated Discrete dGPU       │ Primary Display Adapter iGPU  │ Host Processor                 │
├───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ 8–12 GB GDDR6 Dedicated VRAM  │ 15.5 GB Unified System RAM    │ 32.0 GB System RAM             │
│ 256–360 GB/s Memory Bandwidth │ High-Bandwidth Unified Fabric │ 16–24 Concurrent Threads       │
│ Safe Engines:                 │ Safe Engines:                 │ Safe Engines:                  │
│ • Native SASS (~43 t/s)       │ • Direct3D 12 (HLSL Wave32)   │ • Cpu (AVX-512 / AVX2 SIMD)    │
│ • DirectML (DX12 Compute)     │ • DirectML (DWM Cooperative)  │                                │
│                               │ [UNSAFE: Raw OpenCL (TDR)]    │                                │
└───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

• Display iGPU Safety (AMD Radeon 890M / 680M): Drives the laptop display via Desktop Window Manager (DWM). Long-running non-cooperative kernels trigger Windows TDR driver timeouts. Glacier utilizes Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32) with fine-grained dispatches or DirectML, cooperating with DWM to provide rock-solid stability across 15.5 GB of unified memory.
• Compute dGPU Speed (NVIDIA RTX 4060 / RTX 3060): Leverages Glacier's Pure C# Native SASS engine for peak throughput (~43 tokens/sec generation, 109+ tokens/sec prompt eval), streaming raw machine code directly to SMs without CUDA runtime overhead.
• CPU Host Execution (AMD Ryzen AI 9 / Intel Core Ultra): Native multi-threaded SIMD execution using AVX-512 and AVX2 hardware FMA intrinsics.
• Enforced Safety Guard: Attempting to force an unverified or unsafe engine (e.g. raw OpenCL on the display adapter) is proactively caught with clear remediation recommendations.

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C# Library API Reference

1. Hardware Enumeration & Device Discovery

Query available GPUs, VRAM capacity, and safe driver engines dynamically in your application:

using Glacier.Inference.Hardware;

// Enumerate all physical GPUs, iGPUs, and CPUs
IReadOnlyList<DeviceInfo> devices = DeviceManager.GetDevices();

foreach (var dev in devices)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Device: {dev.Name} (ID: {dev.Id})");
    Console.WriteLine($"  Vendor:    {dev.Vendor}");
    Console.WriteLine($"  VRAM:      {dev.DedicatedVramGb:F1} GB Dedicated | {dev.SharedVramGb:F1} GB Shared");
    Console.WriteLine($"  Engines:   {string.Join(", ", dev.SupportedEngines)}");
    Console.WriteLine($"  IsDisplay: {dev.IsPrimaryDisplay} (Safety: {dev.SafetyNotes})");
}

// Get system's optimal device automatically
DeviceInfo optimal = DeviceManager.GetOptimalDevice();

2. Initializing an Inference Session

Load and memory-map any GGUF model directly into GPU/CPU address space:

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;
using Glacier.Inference.Memory;

// Initialize hardware-accelerated session
using var session = new InferenceSession(
    modelPath: "models/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    maxSeqLen: 4096,                          // Context sequence limit
    device: "nvidia-rtx-4060",                // Specific device ID or name (or null for auto)
    engine: InferenceEngineType.BareMetal,    // BareMetal (SASS), DirectML, Cpu, or Auto
    kvPrecision: KvCachePrecision.Auto);      // Auto, Fp16, Fp8, or Fp32

Console.WriteLine($"Model loaded on: {session.ActiveDevice}");
Console.WriteLine($"Active Engine:  {session.Engine}");

3. Streaming Real-Time Token Generation

Stream generation tokens live to the console, UI, or WebSocket:

using Glacier.Inference.Sampling;

var options = new SamplingOptions
{
    MaxTokens = 512,
    Temperature = 0.7f,
    TopP = 0.95f,
    TopK = 40,
    RepetitionPenalty = 1.1f
};

var result = await session.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Explain the difference between stack and heap memory in C#.",
    options: options,
    formatChat: true,                         // Applies model's native ChatML template
    onToken: token => Console.Write(token));  // Invoked per-token in real time

Console.WriteLine($"\nPrompt Rate:     {result.Metrics.PromptTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Generation Rate: {result.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Total Duration:  {result.Metrics.TotalDuration.TotalSeconds:F2} s");

4. Speculative Decoding (1.5x–3x Throughput Acceleration)

Wraps any InferenceSession with batched verification:

using Glacier.Inference.Engine;

using var target = new InferenceSession("models/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf");
using var specEngine = new SpeculativeEngine(target); // Zero-cost PromptLookupDraftProvider

var specOptions = new SpeculativeOptions
{
    MaxDraftTokens = 4,                       // Draft up to 4 candidate tokens per verification step
    MaxTokens = 512,
    Temperature = 0.7f
};

var specResult = await specEngine.GenerateAsync(
    prompt: "Write a high-performance C# SIMD vector dot product method.",
    options: specOptions,
    onToken: piece => Console.Write(piece));

Console.WriteLine($"\nEffective Rate: {specResult.Metrics.GenerationTokensPerSecond:F1} tok/s");
Console.WriteLine($"Draft Hit Rate: {specResult.SpeculativeMetrics.AcceptanceRate * 100:F1}%");

5. Pure C# Voice Subsystem (Kokoro TTS & Whisper STT)

Synthesize 24kHz CD-quality human speech with physical vocal tract dynamics, dialect phonology, and full-duplex conversational turn in pure C# .NET 10:

using Glacier.Inference.Audio;

// Initialize TTS engine
using var tts = new KokoroTtsEngine();

// 1. Synthesize American Female voice (Heart)
float[] usAudio = tts.Synthesize("Hello from Glacier voice inference.", KokoroVoice.AfHeart);
WavWriter.WritePcm16("speech_us.wav", usAudio, tts.SampleRate, 1);

// 2. Synthesize British Male documentary narrator (George)
float[] ukAudio = tts.Synthesize("Welcome to the British documentary series.", KokoroVoice.BmGeorge);
WavWriter.WritePcm16("narrator_uk.wav", ukAudio, tts.SampleRate, 1);

// 3. Full-duplex conversational turn (Whisper STT + Instant Speech Response)
using var pipeline = new VoicePipeline();
var (userPrompt, responseText, responseAudio) = pipeline.ConversationalTurn(
    usAudio,
    prompt => $"Understood: {prompt}. Processing request.",
    KokoroVoice.AmAdam);

Supported Voice Profiles (16 Voices: USA & British Accents)

6. Pluggable Diagnostic Logging

Glacier.Inference includes an ambient, zero-dependency diagnostic logging subsystem:

using Glacier.Inference.Diagnostics;

// Forward diagnostic logs to the terminal:
GlacierDiagnostics.Logger = new ConsoleGlacierLogger();

// Or direct logs to a custom delegate (e.g. Microsoft.Extensions.Logging or a test harness):
GlacierDiagnostics.Logger = new DelegateGlacierLogger((level, message, ex) =>
{
    myLogger.Log(MapLogLevel(level), ex, "{Message}", message);
});

// Reset back to silent default:
GlacierDiagnostics.Reset();

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Architecture

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      Glacier.Inference.Cli (Host)                      │
│        devices  |  config  |  run  |  serve  |  inspect  |  bench      │
└───────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                                    │
┌───────────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        Glacier.Inference Core                          │
│  ├─ SpeculativeEngine (Prompt Lookup & Model-Based 1.5x–3x Decoder)    │
│  ├─ IDraftProvider (PromptLookupDraftProvider, ModelDraftProvider)     │
│  ├─ DeviceManager (Pure C# DXGI & nvcuda hardware enumeration)         │
│  ├─ GlacierSettings (Persistent JSON hardware configuration)          │
│  ├─ GgufFile (MemoryMappedFile zero-copy reader, GgufMetadataReader)   │
│  ├─ MoE Routing & Gating (Top-K, 3D Tensor Slicing, Shared Experts)   │
│  ├─ Qwen2GpuModel (Bare-Metal SASS GPU engine, VerifyBatch, Argmax)    │
│  ├─ Qwen2D3D12Model (Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute HLSL Wave32)      │
│  ├─ D3D12Context (Pure C# Vortice.D3D12 device & compute pipeline)     │
│  ├─ D3D12Shaders (Embedded compiled HLSL compute shaders, 32T GEMM)   │
│  ├─ QuantKernels (AVX-512/AVX2 Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8_0, Q3_K, Q5_K, MXFP4)   │
│  ├─ KVCache (Unmanaged contiguous ring buffer, Adaptive FP16 / FP8)    │
│  ├─ SsmStateCache (Recurrent state memory S_t & rolling Conv1D cache)  │
│  ├─ Qwen3HybridModel (Gated DeltaNet SSM + Interleaved Full Attention) │
│  ├─ Qwen2Model / MoE Transformer (Attention Sinks, QK-Norm, SwiGLU)    │
│  ├─ BpeTokenizer (Direct GGUF token & merge tables, ChatML)            │
│  └─ Sampler (Pure GPU Argmax ~3μs, Temperature, Top-K, Top-P)          │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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🗺️ Roadmap & Community Contributions

Glacier is developed with a strict commitment to zero external C++ dependencies, empirical benchmarking on real silicon, and maximum hardware saturation.

[!NOTE] Foundational GPU Primitives Delivered: Core in-memory shader assembly (PTX 8.0, SPIR-V 1.6, DXIL), 3-tier VRAM slab allocation, and multi-GPU distributed Ring AllReduce collectives have been fully implemented in Glacier.Compute. Native macOS Cocoa/Metal runtime dispatch is implemented in Glacier.Windowing.

1. 🍏 Apple Silicon Metal GPU Engine (macOS Integration)

• Objective: Bare-metal GPU acceleration on macOS tapping directly into Apple's high-bandwidth unified memory fabric (100–800 GB/s on M-series Pro/Max/Ultra) via Glacier.Windowing Cocoa/Metal bindings and MSL compute kernels (simdgroup_matrix).

2. 🐧 Cross-Platform Vulkan Compute Backend (Linux / Android)

• Leveraging Glacier.Compute's in-memory SPIR-V 1.6 binary emitter to execute hardware-accelerated compute shaders across vendor-neutral GPUs on Linux and mobile without proprietary drivers.

3. ⚡ FlashAttention-3 & Chunked Prefill

• Tiled online softmax with FP8 tensor cores to support 128k+ sequence contexts with bounded KV-cache memory and zero perplexity degradation.

4. 🔗 Multi-GPU Tensor Parallelism (TP)

• Leveraging Glacier.Compute.Distrib Ring AllReduce and lock-free shared memory ring buffers to split large 70B+ and 120B+ MoE models across multi-GPU rigs.

5. 🚀 Continuous In-Flight Batching Server

• Dynamic scheduler integrated with Glacier.Serve's PagedAttention KV pool, batching multiple concurrent generation requests into unified transformer matrix sweeps.

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Ecosystem Cross-References

Glacier.Inference powers model execution across the Glacier .NET 10 High-Performance Ecosystem:

• Glacier.Inference.Distributed: Distributed heterogeneous pipeline inference, cluster activation transport, and warm expert pool execution.
• Glacier.Tune: Zero-copy LLM fine-tuning and LoRA backpropagation using Glacier.Inference weights and tokenizers.
• Glacier.Tensor: Foundational strided tensor engine with Autograd, hardware GEMM dispatch, and PEFT layers.
• Glacier.Polaris: Columnar memory backend for zero-copy feature feeds.
• Glacier.Serve: Sub-millisecond Native AOT deep learning inference microservices.

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.20

• Tiered Virtual Memory Manager (TieredVirtualMemoryManager): Three-tier storage hierarchy (Hot VRAM -> Warm Pinned Host RAM -> Cold NVMe Memory-Mapped files) supporting unmanaged 4KB and 2MB OS page boundary alignment, asynchronous speculative expert layer prefetch, zero-copy GGUF file mapping, and LRU cache eviction.
• Bandwidth-Adaptive Co-Scheduler ($q^*$ Policy): Dynamic, token-level routing engine (BandwidthCoScheduler) evaluating PCIe bus bandwidth ($B_{bus}$) against host RAM bandwidth ($B_{host}$) to dynamically assign sparse MoE layers between GPU VRAM and CPU SIMD cores, eradicating PCIe bus bottlenecks.
• Decoupled Architecture & Glacier.Inference.Distributed Extraction: Removed all network and cluster dependencies from Glacier.Inference. Extracted distributed pipeline coordinators, cluster activation streaming over System.IO.Pipelines, and remote network harnesses into the dedicated Glacier.Inference.Distributed package.
• Full Importance Quantization (I-Quant) Support: Added complete block stride calculation and memory validation across GGUF formats: IQ1_S, IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS, IQ2_S, IQ3_XXS, IQ3_S, IQ4_XS, and IQ4_NL.
• 434/434 Unit Tests Passing (100% Green) across all quantization, GPU kernels, 3D VAE decoders, virtual memory tiering, and bandwidth co-scheduling.

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.19

• Vectorized SIMD Dot Products (Q4_0 & F16): Multi-tiered Vector512 / AdvSimd / Vector256 SIMD dot product implementation for VecDotQ4_0 delivering $>3.8\times$ throughput speedup (1.26 μs on Dim=4096), alongside unrolled 256-bit FMA vectorization for VecDotF16.
• Zero-Allocation Token Sampling & Bitsets: Eradicated heap-allocated HashSet in Sampler.cs for repetition penalty, switching to stack-allocated and ArrayPool-backed rolling bitsets with stackalloc scratch candidate buffers, achieving empirical 0 B GC heap allocations per generated token across 32K and 152K vocabularies.
• GPU Inference Pipeline Optimization & Synchronization Pruning: Eliminated per-layer vkDeviceWaitIdle CPU-GPU execution stalls across Vulkan inference pipelines (Gemma2VulkanBackend), unified 256-byte aligned constant buffer uploading in Direct3D 12 (D3D12TensorAlign.UploadAlignedTensor), and replaced runtime Stopwatch object allocations on hot dispatch paths with allocation-free Stopwatch.GetTimestamp().
• Vectorized Media Serializers & Frame Buffer Pooling: Accelerated raw 24-bit RGB-to-BGR bottom-up scanline conversion with hardware SIMD shuffle intrinsics (Vector128.Shuffle) in MediaKernels.cs and eliminated per-frame heap allocations across AviWriter, BmpWriter, GifWriter, PngWriter, and ApngWriter via pooled scratch memory.
• State Cache Resilience & Sliding Window Attention: Added ring-buffer physical indexing for sliding window attention in KVCache.cs, checkpointing (SaveState/RestoreState) in SsmStateCache.cs for rolling recurrent state integrity, and pruned unreferenced Vortice desktop assemblies from Android mobile targets.
• Security Hardening & GGUF Parser Verification: Enforced DllImportSearchPath.System32 on Windows native driver resolvers to protect against binary planting, capped memory allocation boundaries and tensor extents in GgufFile.cs, and added bounded streaming channels and 32MB payload caps to Kestrel serving endpoints.

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.18

• CPU Quantized SIMD Micro-Benchmarking Suite: Comprehensive BenchmarkDotNet suite (Glacier.Inference.Benchmarks) measuring vector dot products across all supported quantizations (VecDotQ4_K, VecDotQ6_K, VecDotQ8_0, VecDotIQ4_XS, VecDotMXFP4, VecDotF32), multithreaded GEMV (QuantKernels.MatVecMul and batched MatMulBatch with chunk-sum reuse), and zero-allocation token sampling (SamplerBenchmarks).
• Direct3D 12 Compute Pipeline Hardening: Resolved resource barrier transitions between UAV read/write states and eliminated copy-queue sync stalls by leveraging in-queue compute copy commands (CopyBufferRegion) in Gemma4D3D12Model and Qwen2D3D12Model.Forward. Added automated compile validation for Gemma 4 ISWA and Qwen 3 GDN/SSM compute shaders.
• Auditable & Reproducible CUDA Fatbinary: Added automated cross-platform build scripts (build_kernels.bat and build_kernels.sh) compiling kernels.cubin for sm_75 through sm_90 with compute_75 PTX fallback directly from .cu and .cuh sources.
• Speculative Decoding Engine Decoupling & Bug Fix: Refactored ModelDraftProvider to accept ISpeculativeTarget instead of concrete InferenceSession, corrected position tracking and resolved draft token repetition in verification sequences. 220/220 unit tests passing (100% green).

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.17

• Pluggable Zero-Dependency Diagnostic Logging: Pure C# ambient logging subsystem (GlacierDiagnostics, IGlacierLogger, ConsoleGlacierLogger, DelegateGlacierLogger, NullGlacierLogger), eradicating hardcoded console writes from the core engine while allowing custom host integration.
• Robust GPU Fallback & Active Backend Reporting: Structured error diagnostics preserving original exception details on GPU-to-CPU fallback, with real-time session.ActiveBackend telemetry.
• Safe & Hardened Sampling: Sampler safely handles TopK <= 0 as disabled, filters NaN/Inf logit corruptions, guards greedy edge cases, and handles zero Top-P safely.
• Defensive Unmanaged KV Cache: KVCache fortified with argument validation, boundary guards against sequence overruns, and explicit disposed state checking.
• Direct3D 12 Prefill Stride Fix & KV Precision Wiring: Resolved batch prefill stride hazard and wired KvCachePrecision support.
• High-Performance Partial Decompositions: Modularized monolithic engine files (FluxDiT, WanDiT, FluxVaeDecoder, Wan3DVaeDecoder, QuantKernels.VecDot, and Program.cs) into cohesive partial classes under 800 lines with zero breaking API changes.

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.16

• Full-Body Generative Video Synthesis with Visible Leg Motion & Stride: Pure C# .NET 10 video generation pipeline supporting full-body anatomy, leg stride, and footwear interaction with ground reflections in widescreen 832×480.
• Unified Flow Matching ODE Discretization: Corrected continuous schedule partitioning in FlowMatchingScheduler across all time-shift values, eliminating non-linear truncation cliffs ($t \in [0.5, 0.0]$) and ensuring smooth semantic feature convergence.
• Hardware-Accelerated 3D-RoPE in VRAM: Native CUDA fatbinary kernel (rope_3d_in_vram) eliminating host PCIe roundtrips for 3D rotary embeddings across spatio-temporal attention layers.
• AVX2 Line-Buffered 3D Causal VAE Decoder: Row-accumulating 3D convolution engine (AccumulateConv3x3Row) and online FlashAttention-2 softmax, reducing 3D causal VAE decoding time from 35 minutes down to 12.5 minutes ($2.8\times$–$4.8\times$ speedup).
• Multi-Tile Batched GEMM / SwiGLU 2D Grid Dispatch: Fixed 2D CUDA grid dimension mapping (gridY = (batchSize + tileSize - 1) / tileSize), ensuring reliable batched prompt prefill across all batch sizes.
• Boundary-Clamped Catmull-Rom Cubic Splines: Guaranteed endpoint clamping in TemporalLatentVaeDecoder.InterpolateFrames eliminating edge streaking, interpolation overshoot, and video sequence artifacts.
• Natural Language Motion Inference: Added robust direction matching for approaching subjects ("toward the camera", "walking toward") defaulting to CameraMotion.Static to prevent unintended drone camera sway.
• 176/176 Unit Tests Passing (100% Green) across all quantization, GPU kernels, 3D VAE decoders, and diffusion transformers.

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🆕 What's New in v1.2.2

• Vector512<float> and AdvSimd Q4_K / Q5_K / Q6_K quantised dot-product kernels — saturates AVX-512 FMA throughput on Zen 5 and Apple Silicon for all major K-quant levels.
• Operator precedence bug fix in quantisation decode path — correctness fix in the dequantisation formula that produced subtly incorrect logits on Q5_K models.
• [GeneratedRegex] source-generated BPE tokeniser — zero-allocation, AOT-safe tokenisation replacing the previous runtime-compiled regex.
• 4 new adversarial tests — total test count grows to 105 tests (100 %).

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Credits

Developed by Ian Cowley and Antigravity (Google DeepMind).

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License

MIT License. (c) 2026 Ian Cowley.