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Muse Glimmer 30B vs qwen: my day-one local benchmark on a dual RTX 4090 rig
Meta dropped Muse Glimmer 30B and I spent the day trying to unseat my qwen daily driver on the dual-4090 rig. Four apparent hangs, one day-one bug, and a same-harness bench later, I had my answer - and it wasn't the coronation I'd half expected. So, is it better than my daily driver?
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The best local coding setup isn't one model: how I route across Claude, Kimi and my own rig
The question I get asked is which local model is best for coding. Wrong question. The setup that works routes three tiers - Claude reasons, Kimi builds, and a Qwen coder on my own rig does the volume for nothing. Here's the whole thing, wired up.
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How to set up vLLM in Docker: serve an open-weight model on your own GPU
vLLM in Docker, from empty machine to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint you can curl: the compose file I run, the flags that survived benchmarking, and the deadlock that hides behind a healthy /health check.
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Moving houtini-lm to vLLM: What I learned
I decommissioned Hopper (my local LLM bootstrapped server) and moved my local models to a two-card 4090 rig with vLLM on Docker. It's so much faster - but houtini-lm spat its dummy. Two bugs, one hiding behind the other, and how v3.2.1 fixes it.
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Tuning vLLM on a Modded 48GB RTX 4090: From 18 to 133 Tokens per Second
Three days of benchmarking vLLM on a modded 48GB RTX 4090: the quantisation trap that costs Ada owners 40% of their speed, the free 1.9x from speculative decoding, the KV compression that never served once, and what cutting 120 watts costs you. Every number measured, every failure kept.
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Giving Claude a Local Sidekick: a vLLM Journey Update
I want Claude to have a powerful local sidekick through houtini-lm. I'm not there yet, but this month I got noticeably closer - a vLLM rebuild, a benching spree on the 48GB 4090, and a face-off that deleted two models in an evening.
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