Tag: Local-AI
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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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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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Poolside’s Laguna S 2.1 118B Punches Above Its Weight
by Chris DePuy / July 28, 2026 This week, the local AI community has been running Poolside’s latest open-weight model, Laguna S 2.1, on everything from single DGX Sparks to 3090 Quad workstations. Released on July 21, Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 8B activated parameters per token, a 1M-token…