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Hardware for local inference? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I want to host some LLM's locally and use more advanced models. Since new hardware is out of the question, I think I should be able to pull something off buying some yesteryear equipment on ebay etc. Did anybody attempt such a project? Does it scale horizontally? (I.e. can I connext two boxes to overcome single box slowness?)

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago*

With older hardware, once you accumulate enough vram to run it, your problem is going to shift to memory bandwidth and your question is going to shift from 'Can I run this Model' to 'Can I run this Model at an acceptable speed'.

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