Surprising that the Linux setup instructions for the server component don't include Docker/Podman as an option, its Snap/PPA for Ubuntu and RPM for Fedora. Maybe the assumption is that container-oriented users can build their own if given native packages?
Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
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Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#12Note that the NPU models/kernels this uses are proprietary and not available as open source. It would be nice to develop more open support for this hardware.
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#13Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#14Is... is this named because they have a lemon they're trying to make the most of?
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#15The interesting part to me isn’t just local inference, but how much orchestration it’s trying to handle (text, image, audio, etc). That’s usually where things get messy when running models locally.
Curious how much of this is actually abstraction vs just bundling multiple tools together. Also wondering if the AMD/NPU optimizations end up making it less portable compared to something like Ollama in practice.
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#16Note that the NPU models/kernels this uses are proprietary and not available as open source. It would be nice to develop more open support for this hardware.
Are they? The docs say "You can also register any Hugging Face model into your Lemonade Server with the advanced pull command options"
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#17I’ve read the website and the news announcement, and I still don’t understand what it is. An alternative to LM Studio? Does it support MLX or metal on Macs? I’m assuming it will optimize things for AMD, but are you at a disadvantage using other GPUs?