Observed arrival · 2026-10-31
unreasonable systems: big models on small machines
An independent AI workshop documenting local inference engines, voice agents, creative tools, and scientific software built around consumer hardware.
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- The page describes tiering model experts across VRAM, pinned RAM, and NVMe to run a 552B model on one gaming PC.
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The page frames one engine around a specific hardware asymmetry: an RTX 3090 on PCIe ×16 and another on ×4, with no NVLink and an AVX2-only CPU. It says Helios runs an 85 GB model with 48 GB of VRAM while retaining a 262k-token window. The author says results files include slower-than-baseline sections; these measurements are project-reported in the supplied extract.
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