llama.cpp b10524 Makes MoE Expert Scatter Deterministic in OpenCL

The llama.cpp project has released build b10524 with a critical fix for Mixture of Experts (MoE) models: making expert scatter operations deterministic in the OpenCL backend. Determinism is essential for production inference, especially when deploying models across different GPU architectures where non-deterministic behavior can lead to inconsistent results, failed deployments, and difficult-to-debug issues.

MoE models like Mixtral are increasingly popular for local deployment due to their efficiency (only active experts are computed per token), and this fix ensures they behave reliably on OpenCL-capable GPUs. For users leveraging AMD, Intel Arc, or other OpenCL devices for local inference, this represents a stability improvement that makes MoE models more viable for production workloads.

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