My main question is whether when put into practical use, this can be measured in tokens/second, or more like 1 token per minute... I
have seen locally hosted LLM that are as slow as 1 tok/second still be very useful if you give it a project to do something overnight and metaphorically walk away from it, check back with what it has done in 6 or 8 hours.
0.05 to 0.1 tok/s on the other hand, as reported in the URL for the lowest class of hardware, isn't really usable for much.
edit: I think this is a fantastic project in general concept, and look forward to seeing more efforts towards the general idea of being able to run a 350B to 900B size model locally, even if as slow as 1 tok/s, on hardware that ordinary people can afford. Anything along the general concept of "we have fast read NVME SSD storage, we have a big ass model on local disk, we'll read it at 11GB/tok as we need it, not try to load the whole thing".
0.05 to 0.1 tok/s on the other hand, as reported in the URL for the lowest class of hardware, isn't really usable for much.
edit: I think this is a fantastic project in general concept, and look forward to seeing more efforts towards the general idea of being able to run a 350B to 900B size model locally, even if as slow as 1 tok/s, on hardware that ordinary people can afford. Anything along the general concept of "we have fast read NVME SSD storage, we have a big ass model on local disk, we'll read it at 11GB/tok as we need it, not try to load the whole thing".