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Notes from the road
Experiments, lessons, and half-formed thoughts from the workshop.
Aug 27, 2026
Adventures with PCIe speeds, topology and RCCL for LLM inference
I recently had the privilege to upgrade my main workstation with two more GPUs. With this, I had to figure out how to squeeze them in the limited space of my workstation chassis.
Read note ↗Aug 23, 2026Optimizing CPU-only inference for better performance
I recently came upon a use case where I needed a small LLM model to generate summaries and parse some messaging data. It was time to explore CPU only inference.
Read note ↗Aug 14, 2026Welcome to the hearth
A small introduction to this new corner of the internet, and the kinds of things I hope to leave here.
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