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NVIDIA PAIR modified to support AMD GPUs and llama.cpp

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A user has modified NVIDIA's Personal AI Router (PAIR) to support AMD GPUs by integrating ROCm telemetry. This allows PAIR to route tasks to llama.cpp running on an AMD node, overcoming the limitation where PAIR only natively recognizes NVIDIA hardware and specific engines like Ollama or LM Studio. The user also developed a custom engine manifest to enable PAIR to interface with an OpenAI-compatible server fronting llama.cpp, enabling cross-OS and cross-vendor cluster setups. AI

IMPACT Enables broader hardware compatibility for AI routing software, potentially lowering costs and increasing accessibility.

RANK_REASON User-developed modification to existing software to enable cross-vendor compatibility.

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NVIDIA PAIR modified to support AMD GPUs and llama.cpp

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Don_Reuter ·

    NVIDIA PAIR routing to llama.cpp on an AMD ROCm node (2×R9700). Notes.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>PAIR (NVIDIA's Personal AI Router) ships GPU telemetry only for NVIDIA nodes — AMD nodes report a blind fallback, so the scheduler can't see their load. I added AMD ROCm telemetry and got a two-node cluster routing to my tuned llama.cpp setup on …

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