A Home Lab from Spare Parts
A hobbyist built a functional home lab for running large language models and statistical simulations using spare computer parts. The setup, featuring a modest CPU, 16GB RAM, and the Proxmox hypervisor, allows for local LLM experimentation with quantized models like Llama, offering privacy and cost savings. While CPU-only inference is slow, the project provides valuable hands-on learning about model quantization, memory management, and hardware-level inference, proving that significant experimentation is possible without expensive dedicated hardware. AI