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Calculate the GPU memory you need for LLM inference
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A simple calculator that estimates how many concurrent requests your GPU can handle for a given LLM, with shareable results.
2025 · selfhostllm.org
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Hey HN, If you tried running open-source models like Llama 3.1 70B or 405B, you might have noticed that it gets very expensive. The reason looks obvious enough that you might have stopped even before trying it! - GPUs are very expensive to buy or rent - Running the most performing LLMs need 4, 8 or even 16 top of the line Nvidia GPUs - And that won’t get you anywhere near the level of VRAM needed to batch enough to get a decent throughput and efficiency Some have even questioned if open-source LLM providers are not doing some shenanigans to provide the prices they offer. VC funded…
2024
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We've built InferX, a specialized runtime environment that fundamentally changes how LLMs are served. The core problem we solve is the latency bottleneck in AI inference, especially with large models. Current systems waste resources or suffer from painfully slow cold starts. InferX's AI-native architecture, with its "snapshot" technology, enables: * *Sub-2s cold starts:* Spin up models instantly. * *High density:* Serve more LLMs on the same GPUs. * *Optimal efficiency:* Maximize GPU utilization. This isn't just another API; it's a new execution layer designed from the ground up for the…
2025 · github.com
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2021 · inferrd.com
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Built a simple web app that tells you which open-source LLMs will work on your hardware. It auto-detects your specs, shows compatible models from Hugging Face, gives realistic performance estimates (tokens/sec), and recommends quantization settings. You can also manually input specs to see "what if I upgraded my RAM?" Made this after wasting time downloading giant models only to find they crawled on my hardware. Hope it saves you some frustration!
2025 · caniusellm.com
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Hi HN, I built llm.sql, an LLM inference framework that reimagines the LLM execution pipeline as a series of structured SQL queries atop SQLite. The motivation: Edge LLMs are getting better, but hardware remains a bottleneck, especially RAM (size and bandwidth). When available memory is less than the model size and KV cache, the OS incurs page faults and swaps pages using LRU-like strategies, resulting in throughput degradation that's hard to notice and even harder to debug. In fact, the memory access pattern during LLM inference is deterministic - we know exactly which weights are needed…
Apr 2026
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Hi HN! I built LLMKube, a Kubernetes operator for deploying GPU-accelerated LLMs in production. One command gets you from zero to inference with full observability. Why this exists: Regulated industries (healthcare, defense, finance) need air-gapped LLM deployments, but existing tools are either single-node only (Ollama) or lack GPU optimization and SLO enforcement. LLMKube bridges the gap. What's working: - 17x speedup with NVIDIA GPUs (64 tok/s on Llama 3.2 3B vs 4.6 tok/s CPU) - One command: llmkube deploy llama-3b --gpu (auto CUDA setup, scheduling, layer offloading) -…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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I wanted to build an inference provider for proprietary AI models, but I did not have a huge GPU farm. I started experimenting with Serverless AI inference, but found out that coldstarts were huge. I went deep into the research and put together an engine that loads large models from SSD to VRAM up to ten times faster than alternatives. It works with vLLM, and transformers, and more coming soon. With this project you can hot-swap entire large models (32B) on demand. Its great for: Serverless AI Inference Robotics On Prem deployments Local Agents And Its open source. Let me know if anyone…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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I work on inference scheduling — KV cache-aware routing, load balancing across GPU workers, that kind of thing. I wanted something like k9s but for my inference stack. Nothing existed, so I built it. llmtop is a real-time terminal dashboard for LLM inference workers. It scrapes the Prometheus /metrics endpoints that vLLM, SGLang, and LMCache already expose and shows everything in one view: KV cache usage, queue depth, TTFT/ITL latencies (P50/P99 from histogram buckets), token throughput, prefix cache hit rates. Color-coded — red means go fix it. ``` brew install…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, I've been building AutoAgents, an AI agent framework in Rust. Today I'm sharing a feature I haven't seen done well elsewhere: composable middleware layers for LLM inference pipelines. The problem Every agent framework lets you swap LLM providers. Almost none of them give you a structured way to enforce safety, caching, or data sanitization in the inference path itself. You end up with guardrails as application-level if-statements, caching bolted on as a separate service, and PII handling as a "we'll add it later" TODO that never ships. This gets worse with local models. Cloud APIs…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Built this because I was tired of every AI tool shipping my data to someone else server n0x runs the full stack LLM inference via WebGPU, autonomous ReAct agents, RAG over your own docs, sandboxed Python execution via Pyodide all inside a single browser tab. No account No keys No backend Models download once, cache in IndexedDB permanently. Biggest challenge was context window budgeting for the agent loop and making the WASM vector search non-blocking. Happy to talk architecture. GitHub: https://github.com/ixchio/n0x | Live demo: https://n0x-three.vercel.app
Mar 2026 · n0xth.vercel.app
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We built RapidFire AI, an open-source Python tool to speed up LLM fine-tuning and post-training with a powerful level of control not found in most tools: Stop, resume, clone-modify and warm-start configs on the fly—so you can branch experiments while they’re running instead of starting from scratch or running one after another. - Works within your OSS stack: PyTorch, HuggingFace TRL/PEFT), MLflow. - Hyperparallel search: launch as many configs as you want together, even on a single GPU - Dynamic real-time control: stop laggards, resume them later to revisit, branch promising configs in…
Sep 2025 · github.com
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Read the full blogpost at https://rach.codes/blog/Introducing-Bhumi (click on reader to see the technical breakdown!) AI inference should be fast, but in practice it’s painfully slow. Inference bottlenecks slow down LLM-powered chatbots and AI workflows everywhere. I built Bhumi to fix that. Bhumi is a Python library designed for developers, yet its performance-critical core is implemented in Rust (via PyO3) for near-native speed. This hybrid approach delivers up to 2.5x faster response times across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini—without changing the…
2025 · bhumi.trilok.ai
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We have a massive GPU cluster and developed our own infrastructure to manage the cluster and train massive models. There's how it works: 1. You upload the dataset with preconfigured format into HuggingFaсe [1]. 2. Choose your LLM (e.g. LLaMa 70B, Mistral 7B) 3. Place your submission into the queue 4. Wait for it to get trained. 5. Then you get your trained model there on HuggingFace. Essentially, why would we want to do it? 1. We already have an experience with training big LLMs. 2. We could achieve near-perfect infrastructure performance for training. 3. Sometimes GPUs have just nothing to…
2023 · higgsfield.xyz
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Hi there, looking for feedback on my new project "Featherless.AI" The idea is to allow users to run all the models on hugging face instantly. Via the OpenAI API compatible endpoint. Why? Because its a real chore to download models and spin up GPUs, especially if you want to test multiple models. Not to mention GPUs cost multiple dollars an hour to rent. And if we want more people to use open source AI, we got to make it easier for them to try and play with all of them. So what if instead of spinning up dedicated GPUs per model (which is what every provider is doing) We can startup a LLM…
2024 · featherless.ai
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