freedom-intelligence/docs/hardware-envelope.md
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Add INTENT/SCOPE, daily-brief playbook, activity-core definition (disabled),
workplans FI-WP-0001..0003, baseline field survey with open-weight collection
recommendations, and inventory catalog candidates for the model reserve.
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Hardware envelope — homelab accessible (draft)

Status: assumptions + TBD measurements
Used by: inventory hardware_class, axis B/C prioritization, collection size decisions


Purpose

Define what Freedom Intelligence means by homelab accessible so we do not collect models that only make sense on hyperscale clusters.


Working tiers (until hosts are measured)

Tier Assumed capacity Target model class
T0 — CPU / edge 1664 GB system RAM, no GPU ≤3B Q4; embeddings ≤0.5B
T1 — consumer GPU 812 GB VRAM 78B Q4/Q5; 3B fp16
T2 — enthusiast GPU 1624 GB VRAM 14B Q4; 8B fp16; light 32B Q4
T3 — lab multi-GPU 2×24 GB+ or 48 GB+ 32B fp16 / 70B Q4; small MoE
T4 — out of envelope multi-node / 8×A100-class Full DeepSeek-V3 MoE — P2 watch only

P0 collection targets T0T2. P2 full MoE is T4.


Lab hosts (fill in)

Host Role GPU VRAM RAM Notes
TBD primary local inference TBD TBD TBD
TBD training experiments TBD TBD TBD
railiance01 cluster (not weight store) n/a n/a n/a Prefer not to fill hot disks with weights

Inference runtime defaults (intent)

Runtime When
llama.cpp / GGUF Desktop & edge
vLLM Server multi-request
MLX Apple silicon if present
Ollama Quick operator UX only

Training defaults (intent)

Method Envelope
QLoRA 78B T1T2
QLoRA 14B T2
Full FT 7B T2T3
70B+ FT T3+ only with explicit plan

Pin log

Date Change
2026-07-24 Draft tiers; host table empty