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Pooled RAM across an old laptop, a Windows PC, and a Mac to run a 13B model - source-available, would love eyes on it

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https://i.redd.it/ecd8gk9ox0oh1.gif Been running a heterogeneous home cluster for a while — an old Acer laptop (12GB, CPU-only) as the primary API server, with a Windows box (RTX 3060 CUDA) and a Mac Mini (Metal) lending capacity over the network. I wrote the orchestration on top of llama.cpp's `gg…

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  1. 2026-09-07 04:17 · r/LocalLLM
    Pooled RAM across an old laptop, a Windows PC, and a Mac to run a 13B model - source-available, would love eyes on it

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