My 125B Local Run Ran Out of Weekend
A 125B MoE ran an agent job locally for 72 hours and made real progress. A free 120B cloud route finished the same job in 7. Here is where the time went.
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A 125B MoE ran an agent job locally for 72 hours and made real progress. A free 120B cloud route finished the same job in 7. Here is where the time went.
Two used 3090s or a mismatched pair can run a 27B model. Compare llama.cpp layer split with vLLM tensor parallelism, PCIe limits, and a verdict on which to run.
The Coral USB TPU runs out of headroom past a few cameras. GPU and OpenVINO detector numbers for Frigate, config gotchas, and what to buy for six cameras.
Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.
Before you download a 70B model, calculate if it fits. The formulas, the gotchas, and a quick calculator you can actually use.
Fine-tune an LLM on your gaming GPU with LoRA and QLoRA: dataset prep, Hugging Face, Unsloth, VRAM math, a full walkthrough, and mistakes that waste your afternoon.