Two 96 GB Ascend cards crun Qwen3.8-flash-next hardware notes, vLLM work, benchmarks, and what is next

I have been building a somewhat unusual local inference machine around two Huawei Atlas 300I Duo cards. They are relatively inexpensive, passive, dual-accelerator PCIe cards with 96 GB of device memory apiece. They are also absolutely not drop-in CUDA replacements. When I first brought up Qwen3.8 Fl