1. Is the given tok/s estimate for the total node throughput, or is it what you can realistically expect to get? Or is it the worst case scenario throughput if everyone starts to use it simultaneously? 2. What if I try to hog all resources of a node by running some large data processing and making multiple queries in parallel? What if I try to resell the access by charging per token? Edit: sorry if this comment sound…
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#12Is this not a more restricted version of OpenRouter? With OpenRouter you pay for credits that can be used to run any commercial or open-source model and you only pay for what you use.
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#14How is the time sharing handled? I assume if I submit a unit of work it will load to VRAM and then run (sharing time? how many work units can run in parallel?) How large is a full context window in MiB and how long does it take to load the buffer? I.e. how many seconds should I expect my worst case wait time to take until I get my first token?
not original author but batching is one very important trick to make inference efficient, you can reasonably do tens to low hundreds in parallel (depending on model size and gpu size) with very little performance overhead
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#16I dig the idea! I'm curious where the costs will land with actual use.
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#17How is the time sharing handled? I assume if I submit a unit of work it will load to VRAM and then run (sharing time? how many work units can run in parallel?) How large is a full context window in MiB and how long does it take to load the buffer? I.e. how many seconds should I expect my worst case wait time to take until I get my first token?
TTFT is under 2 seconds average. Worst case is 10-30s.
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#18This is the most "Prompted ourselves a Shadcn UI" page I've seen in a while lol I dig the idea! I'm curious where the costs will land with actual use.
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#1925 t/s is barely usable. Maybe for a background runner
That's over a 1000 words/s if you were typing. If 1000 words/s is too slow for your use-case, then perhaps $5/m is just not for you.
I kinda like the idea of paying $5/m for unlimited usage at the specified speed.
It beats a 10x higher speed that hits daily restrictions in about 2 hours, and weekly restrictions in 3 days.
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#20This is an excellent idea, but I worry about fairness during resource contention. I don't often need queries, but when I do it's often big and long. I wouldn't want to eat up the whole system when other users need it, but I also would want to have the cluster when I need it. How do you address a case like this?