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I, like many nerds of the same stripe, have a dragon's hoard of every PC component I've owned in the last 20 years. I've attached as much of it to my homelab as
by vitally3643 3mo ago
I, like many nerds of the same stripe, have a dragon's hoard of every PC component I've owned in the last 20 years. I've attached as much of it to my homelab as is practical, but there's still a pile of GPUs from the last decade plus.
So I decided to load up everything with more then 3GB of VRAM into various machines on the network. Anything that could conceivably run an LLM of any utility. I've been experimenting with driving a swarm of heterogenous LLMs into coding tasks. I have models as small as llama3.2:3b up to Qwen3.6:27b dense. Over 10 unique models in the swarm.
So far, the results are... interesting. Coding isn't great, but what has worked shockingly well is polling the swarm for opinions. Getting ten unique perspectives synthesized into a single summary has been astonishingly useful. When I gave the swarm the ability to debate with itself, the results got even more interesting.
The end goal here is an autonomous routing network that learns which models excel at which tasks, which machines can fit which models, and intelligently routes requests and models to where they're most effective.
I can't afford an RTX 6000, but I can run smaller models on the pile of GPUs I do have. So far it hasn't worked out the way I'd hoped, but it did turn out to be very useful in other ways. Hopefully soon I can get coding worked out and the swarm can drive itself into self-improvement
- fellerts 3mo agoThis sounds cool, do you have a more detailed write-up?
- vitally3643 3mo agoNope, honestly it's about three weekends worth of vibe coded python slop. Far, far below my personal standards for publication. Maybe one day when I get a useful result I'll publish a blog.
- fblp 3mo agoOne of the cooler things I've read on here as it's a next level "homebrew" AI setup! I'd be curious what some examples of debate outputs are. Please consider writing about it!
- ninjis 3mo agoDoes this unit have a soul?
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- giancarlostoro 3mo agoEven though they arent Nvidia GPUs I wonder if setting up a swarm of Intel GPUs would be worthwhile for a similar setup, more VRAM, more diverse models.
- 7speter 3mo agoUsing OpenVINO and a supported model can get you surprisingly far...
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoNice, not sure why I was downvoted for suggesting the cheapest GPU which comes with quite a lot of VRAM... but I guess some people are fatigued by AI / GPU talk?
- hashmap 3mo ago> every PC component I've owned in the last 20 years. I've attached as much of it to my homelab as is practical this sounds like a disease. one of the early signs for me was developing a particular interest in the breaker box.