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Tesla V100 32GB + Qwen3.8-27B at 23.6 tok/s and 256K context — cooled by a blower mounted with Velcro

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I’ve been building a small heterogeneous local-AI lab, and “Team Green” has turned into the strangest useful machine in it. The system: Ryzen 9 9950X 48 GB DDR5 HPE/NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB HBM2 ECC Ubuntu 24.04 llama.cpp build 10499 Qwen3.8-27B Q3_K_M, 12.86 GiB All 66/66 layers offloaded to t…

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  1. 2026-08-24 12:36 · r/LocalLLM
    Tesla V100 32GB + Qwen3.8-27B at 23.6 tok/s and 256K context — cooled by a blower mounted with Velcro

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