Alternatives

Products that do what Recurser lib reduces GPT2-XL VRAM usage by 25% and runs it on Colab does

1. 1RD
   RAM Disk Backed by GPU Memory(VRAM)▲37

   2016 · github.com

2. 2L3
   Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU▲395

   Hi everyone, I'm kinda involved in some retrogaming and with some experiments I ran into the following question: "It would be possible to run transformer models bypassing the cpu/ram, connecting the gpu to the nvme?" This is the result of that question itself and some weekend vibecoding (it has the linked library repository in the readme as well), it seems to work, even on consumer gpus, it should work better on professional ones tho

   Feb 2026 · github.com

3. 3AS
   A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs▲60

   2019 · github.com

4. 4EP
   EC2 prices per GB of memory▲113

   2017 · instaguide.io

5. 51T
   15FPS to 60FPS, new GPU real-time flow-based method▲112

   2020 · youtube.com

6. 6FT
   Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU▲139

   Aug 2026 · github.com

7. 7
   crunr ▲106

   Launch and run any compute job on AWS with 1 command

   May 2026 · crunr.com

8. 8AM
   A Minimal Code Example of Using Vulkan for Computations on the GPU▲68

   2017 · github.com

9. 9AL
   Azula – Lightweight GPU Accelerated Electron Alternative▲38

   2019 · github.com

10. 10GA
    GPUKill – A lightweight tool to kill stuck GPU jobs▲5

    Sep 2025 · github.com

11. 11RG
    Run gpt-oss-20b on 8GB GPUs▲6

    2025 · github.com

12. 12OS
    Open sourcing uRacer, a GLES2 top-down racer made with libgdx▲29

    2018 · github.com

13. 13GP
    GPU PaaS▲6

    2021 · calcify.io

14. 14AE
    An Easy Library for GPGPU in JavaScript (Mobile and Web)▲15

    2016 · github.com

15. 15OI
    OSS implementation of Test Time Diffusion that runs on a 24gb GPU▲21

    Nov 2025 · github.com

16. 163M
    33% Memory Reduction by Reordering Struct Fields▲19

    2020 · qvault.io

17. 17GB
    GPU-backed Linux desktops in the cloud▲23

    2016 · paperspace.com

18. 18GK
    GPU Kill – A CLI tool to kill stuck GPU jobs without rebooting▲5

    Sep 2025 · github.com

19. 19DA
    Dataroom – a Pi and self-hosted research harness on low-budget GPU▲7

    Jun 2026 · github.com

20. 20OS
    Open-source fine-tuning in a Colab notebook▲5

    Posted before, but wanted to share if you want an open source alternative to OpenAI fine-tuning, give Unsloth a try! Phi 3.5 was just released, and is distilled from GPT4. Unsloth makes finetuning 2x faster, uses 70% less VRAM + has no accuracy degradations. We rewrite all backprop steps and reduce FLOPs and write everything in Triton (JIT low level CUDA). If you want to own the weights after fine-tuning, give Unsloth a spin! I have free Colabs and Kaggle notebooks as well at https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth

    2024 · colab.research.google.com

21. 21RF
    Rambda – Faster alternative to Ramda in just 10kB▲5

    2017 · github.com

22. 22NG
    Navatala GPU – multi-back end GPU kernels and Python bindings▲6

    Jun 2026 · github.com

23. 23ZA
    ZeroGate – API gateway to scale cloud GPUs to zero when idle▲5

    Jun 2026 · github.com

24. 24VV
    VKtracer – vendor-neutral and cross-platform GPU profiler for Vulkan▲9

    2021 · vktracer.com

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