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 |
16–64 GB system RAM, no GPU |
≤3B Q4; embeddings ≤0.5B |
| T1 — consumer GPU |
8–12 GB VRAM |
7–8B Q4/Q5; 3B fp16 |
| T2 — enthusiast GPU |
16–24 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 T0–T2. 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 7–8B |
T1–T2 |
| QLoRA 14B |
T2 |
| Full FT 7B |
T2–T3 |
| 70B+ FT |
T3+ only with explicit plan |
Pin log
| Date |
Change |
| 2026-07-24 |
Draft tiers; host table empty |