To start with, an Epyc server or Mac Studio with 512GB RAM.
I looked up the price of the Mac Studio: $9500. That's actually a lot less than I was expecting...
I'm guessing an Epyc machine is even less.
How does the mac studio load the trillion parameter model?
By using ~3 bit quantized model with llama.cpp, Unsloth makes good quants:
https://docs.unsloth.ai/models/tutorials-how-to-fine-tune-an...
Note that llama.cpp doesn't try to be production-grade engine, more focused on local usage.
I looked up the price of the Mac Studio: $9500. That's actually a lot less than I was expecting...
I'm guessing an Epyc machine is even less.
How does the mac studio load the trillion parameter model?
By using ~3 bit quantized model with llama.cpp, Unsloth makes good quants:
https://docs.unsloth.ai/models/tutorials-how-to-fine-tune-an...
Note that llama.cpp doesn't try to be production-grade engine, more focused on local usage.