cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41844010

The problem is simple: consumer motherboards don’t have that many PCIe slots, and consumer CPUs don’t have enough lanes to run 3+ GPUs at full PCIe gen 3 or gen 4 speeds.

My idea was to buy 3-4 computers for cheap, slot a GPU into each of them and use 4 of them in tandem. I imagine this will require some sort of agent running on each node which will be connected through a 10Gbe network. I can get a 10Gbe network running for this project.

Does Ollama or any other local AI project support this? Getting a server motherboard with CPU is going to get expensive very quickly, but this would be a great alternative.

Thanks

  • chonkyninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    You’re going to need a whole lot more than 10Gb, you just need a way better motherboard and chip. Get the AMD Threadripper and an ASUS Pro motherboard.