The problem is simple: consumer motherboards don’t have that many PCIe slots, and consumer CPUs don’t have enough lanes to run 3+ GPUs at full PCIe gen 3 or gen 4 speeds.
My idea was to buy 3-4 computers for cheap, slot a GPU into each of them and use 4 of them in tandem. I imagine this will require some sort of agent running on each node which will be connected through a 10Gbe network. I can get a 10Gbe network running for this project.
Does Ollama or any other local AI project support this? Getting a server motherboard with CPU is going to get expensive very quickly, but this would be a great alternative.
Thanks
Thank you for the links. I will go through them
I’ve tried Exo and it worked fairly well for me. Combined my 7900 XTX, GTX 1070, and M2 MacBook Pro.
+1 on exo, worked for me across the 7900xtx, 6800xt, and 1070ti