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I’ve got access to an NVIDIA DGX Spark and want to see what open models can actually do on it beyond benchmark numbers.

Give me something worth testing: • a model you’re curious about • ridiculous context sizes • coding or agent workloads • vision/multimodal tasks • quantization comparisons • setups that seem like they shouldn’t work I’ll run some of the interesting ones and share what works, what struggles, and wha…

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  1. 2026-10-03 17:36 · r/LocalLLM
    I’ve got access to an NVIDIA DGX Spark and want to see what open models can actually do on it beyond benchmark numbers.

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