Models / Qwen

Qwen3.5-27B
serving recipe.

Qwen3.5-27B is a 27B dense model with a 256K tokens context window. vLLM publishes a tested serving recipe for it, and Wingsmith reads that recipe when you register the weights.

Size
27BDense
Context
256K tokensAs the recipe states it.
Memory floor
17 GBSmallest published, whole replica.
vLLM
0.17.0 or laterMinimum version in the recipe.

01 / Memory

Precisions and memory floors.

Each variant is a precision vLLM tested, sometimes published as its own repository.

VariantPrecisionMemory floorWeights
defaultBF1665 GBQwen/Qwen3.5-27B
fp8FP833 GBQwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8
gptq_int4INT417 GBQwen/Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-Int4

Floors are the minimum the vLLM recipe publishes across the whole replica, from vLLM's own runs. The control plane compares them with its own sizing from the model config.

02 / Parallelism

Layouts the recipe supports.

  • Tensor ParallelFits inside one node's interconnect. single_node_tp
  • Multi-Node Tensor ParallelSpans nodes. multi_node_tp

03 / Hardware

Where vLLM ran it.

Node shapes the recipe reports an end-to-end run on.

  • Arc Pro B60 · 4 GPUs
  • Arc Pro B70 · 4 GPUs

Wingsmith runs models through NVIDIA Dynamo, so it serves on NVIDIA GPUs. Other vendors are listed as the recipe states them.

04 / Flags

The tested baseline.

Base flags, then the default variant, then the features that are on by default, as the recipe composes them.

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data
Single-node baseline. Multi-node layouts add flags per strategy and role.

Features

  • Tool callingOn by defaultEnable automatic tool choice with Qwen3 Coder parser
  • ReasoningOn by defaultEnable chain-of-thought reasoning with Qwen3 parser
  • Speculative decodingOpt-inMulti-token prediction speculative decoding for lower latency
  • Text-only modeOpt-inSkip loading the vision encoder for text-only workloads — frees VRAM for KV cache. Mutually exclusive with encoder_parallel.
  • Encoder data parallelOn by defaultRun the vision encoder in data-parallel mode — avoids TP comm overhead on the small encoder. Mutually exclusive with text_only.

05 / Serve

Serve it with Wingsmith.

From a slug to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, across your clusters.

  1. Register the weights

    In the console, or through the API. Resolving a slug proposes an artifact and writes nothing.

    curl "http://localhost:8000/v1/artifacts/resolve?source=hf:Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B"
    Against the local control plane from the quickstart, where admin auth is off.
  2. Read the draft

    The draft carries this recipe as upstream evidence: the tested flags, the precision and memory floor, the parallelism layouts, and the hardware vLLM verified, with links back to the recipe. Nothing from it is applied without you, and the draft warns when the plane's own sizing and the published floor differ by a quarter or more.

  3. Create the workload

    Choose the engine, device shape and scale. The plane picks the clusters, and each cluster's operator renders the deployment as a Dynamo graph.

  4. Give it an endpoint

    One model name for clients, routed by the gateway to deployments on every cluster serving it.

Run the control plane locally →

Questions

Common questions.

  • How much GPU memory does Qwen3.5-27B need?The vLLM recipe publishes a minimum of 17 GB across the whole replica for its INT4 variant; BF16 65 GB, FP8 33 GB. That is vLLM's own measurement, not a per-GPU figure.
  • Which parallelism layouts does the Qwen3.5-27B recipe support?Tensor Parallel and Multi-Node Tensor Parallel.
  • Can Wingsmith serve Qwen3.5-27B?Wingsmith serves models through NVIDIA Dynamo on clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. Register Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B and the plane attaches this vLLM recipe to the draft as evidence: its tested flags, precision and memory floor, for you to review rather than applied on your behalf. The recipe reports no end-to-end run on NVIDIA hardware.

From the vLLM recipe for Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B ↗ (snapshot at 4bcc189), Apache 2.0.

Status

Open source,
under Apache 2.0.

Wingsmith is pre-release. The first public release, and everything after it, will be under Apache 2.0.

Built and not built

Built

Multi-cluster placement and routing, Dynamo deployments, device inventory, endpoints and quotas, the console, the CLI, and three measurement tools.

Not built

Published images and charts, per-user roles and SSO, batch and training workloads, and a Helm chart for the control plane.

Pre-release. No tagged release, images, or charts yet, and APIs and protocols can change.