Tag: DGX Spark
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NVIDIA Throws Official Support Behind Eight-Node DGX Spark Clusters
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / November 2, 2026 NVIDIA has announced official support for eight-node DGX Spark clusters. The configuration scales unified memory from 128 GB on one machine to 1 TB across eight. As a result, frontier-class models fit on the desk. The company detailed the configuration, the benchmark data, and the supporting…
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TensorFold 1.0.0 and Multi-Model gr8: Two Release Notes Date the Desk-Side Stack
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / November 3, 2026. On November 2, the TensorFold Mac application and the gr8 cluster stack, two community inference projects this blog has followed all autumn, published release notes that move this hardware tier toward installed software. Ash Hart, the maintainer of the TensorFold Mac application, announced version 1.0.0, “our…
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How to Flash DeepSeek V4.1 on an RTX 3090 Fidelity Check
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / November 2, 2026 On October 29, an operator published a one-card Windows build for the full DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 checkpoint. It ran on a single RTX 3090 with 192 GB memory and, in DGX Spark terms, served 41 tokens per second. The measurement that carries the story is…
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DGX Spark Operators Add CPU Clock Caps to the Thermal Playbook
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / November 1, 2026 A two-box DGX Spark operator capped the CPU side of a GB10 pair on Friday, October 30. The operator’s post reports the peak system-on-chip temperature under a ten-core load falling from 94 to 74 degrees Celsius, at a cost of 5 percent in prefill throughput and…
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New GLM-5.3 on Four DGX Sparks: Results and Media Studio
On October 16, a community recipe put the full GLM-5.3 on four DGX Sparks, at tensor parallelism 4. The model is GLM-5.3 (753B), and the four NVIDIA DGX Spark units run it. Underneath is gr8, a from-scratch inference stack for the GB10 processor. The same weekend, keys/Wasserman AI Studio announced release 2.8.0 for Mac and…
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, NVIDIA Answers Quietly With Flare
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 22, 2026 In the early hours of October 20, Pacific time, DeepSeek announced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license. DeepInfer is the stack that powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale in the company’s own production services. The four-post thread laid out the…
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The Spark Fleet Learns to Run Itself
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 21, 2026 The last month of desk-side serving stories were about engines. Athena put two frontier models on one 128 GB box at 262K context with a 141,519-token conversation restored from disk in 2.1 seconds; Imprint turned that same restore trick into a standalone context-cache service with a…
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Five Spark Clusters, Two Kinds of Proof: TP5 GLM-5.3 Runs as Beam Sets the Efficiency Bar
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 6, 2026 Five DGX Sparks now carry the full 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.3: an operator reported the first working five-board tensor-parallel build on Monday, with 1.5 million tokens of KV cache, prefill above 2,000 tokens per second, and 76 tokens per second single-stream — rising to 98–113 tokens per second…