# DeepSeek V3 Support

The SGLang and DeepSeek teams worked together to get DeepSeek V3 FP8 running on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs **from day one**. SGLang also has supported [MLA optimization](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-09-04-sglang-v0-3/#deepseek-multi-head-latent-attention-mla-throughput-optimizations) and [DP attention](https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-12-04-sglang-v0-4/#data-parallelism-attention-for-deepseek-models), making SGLang one of the best open-source LLM engines for running DeepSeek models.

Special thanks to Meituan's Search & Recommend Platform Team and Baseten's Model Performance Team for implementing the model, and DataCrunch for providing GPU resources.

## Hardware Recommendation
- 8 x NVIDIA H200 GPUs

If you do not have GPUs with large enough memory, please try multi-node tensor parallelism ([help 1](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/637de9e8ce91fd3e92755eb2a842860925954ab1/docs/backend/backend.md?plain=1#L88-L95) [help 2](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/637de9e8ce91fd3e92755eb2a842860925954ab1/docs/backend/backend.md?plain=1#L152-L168)).

## Installation & Launch

If you encounter errors when starting the server, ensure the weights have finished downloading. It's recommended to download them beforehand or restart multiple times until all weights are downloaded.

### Using Docker (Recommended)
```bash
docker run --gpus all --shm-size 32g -p 30000:30000 -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --ipc=host lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 --tp 8 --trust-remote-code --port 30000
```

For high QPS scenarios, add the `--enable-dp-attention` argument to boost throughput.

### Using pip
```bash
# Installation
pip install "sglang[all]>=0.4.1.post3" --find-links https://flashinfer.ai/whl/cu124/torch2.4/flashinfer

# Launch
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 --tp 8 --trust-remote-code
```

For high QPS scenarios, add the `--enable-dp-attention` argument to boost throughput.

### Example with OpenAI API

```python3
import openai
client = openai.Client(
    base_url="http://127.0.0.1:30000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")

# Chat completion
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="default",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful AI assistant"},
        {"role": "user", "content": "List 3 countries and their capitals."},
    ],
    temperature=0,
    max_tokens=64,
)
print(response)
```

## DeepSeek V3 Optimization Plan

https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/2591

## Appendix

SGLang is the inference engine officially recommended by the DeepSeek team.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#62-inference-with-sglang-recommended