Add vLLM version to docs, update website with README notes

Author: XkunW

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ If you are using the Vector cluster environment, and you don't need any customiz
 ```bash
 pip install vec-inf
 ```
-Otherwise, we recommend using the provided [`Dockerfile`](Dockerfile) to set up your own environment with the package
+Otherwise, we recommend using the provided [`Dockerfile`](Dockerfile) to set up your own environment with the package. The latest image has `vLLM` version `0.8.5.post1`.
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ Once the inference server is ready, you can start sending in inference requests.
     },
     "prompt_logprobs":null
 }
+
 ```
-**NOTE**: Certain models don't adhere to OpenAI's chat template, e.g. Mistral family. For these models, you can either change your prompt to follow the model's default chat template or provide your own chat template via `--chat-template: TEMPLATE_PATH`
+**NOTE**: Certain models don't adhere to OpenAI's chat template, e.g. Mistral family. For these models, you can either change your prompt to follow the model's default chat template or provide your own chat template via `--chat-template: TEMPLATE_PATH`.
 
 ## SSH tunnel from your local device
 If you want to run inference from your local device, you can open a SSH tunnel to your cluster environment like the following:

docs/index.md

@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ If you are using the Vector cluster environment, and you don't need any customiz
 pip install vec-inf
 ```
 
-Otherwise, we recommend using the provided [`Dockerfile`](https://github.com/VectorInstitute/vector-inference/blob/main/Dockerfile) to set up your own environment with the package.
+Otherwise, we recommend using the provided [`Dockerfile`](https://github.com/VectorInstitute/vector-inference/blob/main/Dockerfile) to set up your own environment with the package. The latest image has `vLLM` version `0.8.5.post1`.

docs/user_guide.md

@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@ You would then set the `VEC_INF_CONFIG` path using:
 export VEC_INF_CONFIG=/h/<username>/my-model-config.yaml
 ```
 
-Note that there are other parameters that can also be added to the config but not shown in this example, check the [`ModelConfig`](https://github.com/VectorInstitute/vector-inference/blob/main/vec_inf/client/config.py) for details.
+**NOTE**
+* There are other parameters that can also be added to the config but not shown in this example, check the [`ModelConfig`](https://github.com/VectorInstitute/vector-inference/blob/main/vec_inf/client/config.py) for details.
+* Check [vLLM Engine Arguments](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/serving/engine_args.html) for the full list of available vLLM engine arguments, the default parallel size for any parallelization is default to 1, so none of the sizes were set specifically in this example
+* For GPU partitions with non-Ampere architectures, e.g. `rtx6000`, `t4v2`, BF16 isn't supported. For models that have BF16 as the default type, when using a non-Ampere GPU, use FP16 instead, i.e. `--dtype: float16`
+* Setting `--compilation-config` to `3` currently breaks multi-node model launches, so we don't set them for models that require multiple nodes of GPUs.
 
 ### `status` command
 
@@ -254,8 +258,7 @@ Once the inference server is ready, you can start sending in inference requests.
 }
 ```
 
-
-**NOTE**: For multimodal models, currently only `ChatCompletion` is available, and only one image can be provided for each prompt.
+**NOTE**: Certain models don't adhere to OpenAI's chat template, e.g. Mistral family. For these models, you can either change your prompt to follow the model's default chat template or provide your own chat template via `--chat-template: TEMPLATE_PATH`.
 
 ## SSH tunnel from your local device