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Multi-GPU Local LLM Inference Tuning Service

A fixed-scope engineering sprint that makes private LLM deployments faster, stable, and appropriately sized for existing GPU hardware.

Added Aug 5, 2026

AI infrastructure consulting
Private model deployment
GPU performance engineering
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The Problem

Teams deploying LLMs on local GPU hardware must choose inference frameworks, model formats, parallelization strategies, drivers, cache settings, and speculative decoding configurations. Small configuration differences can determine whether a model fits, doubles its throughput, or becomes slower and unstable, while public benchmarks rarely match the buyer's hardware and workload.

Potential Solution

Deliver a fixed-price benchmark and tuning engagement using the buyer's representative prompts, concurrency, context lengths, and quality requirements. Establish a baseline, test viable framework and configuration combinations, implement the best deployment recipe, and provide reproducible scripts, operating limits, and an upgrade recommendation.

Why Now?

New models, inference engines, GPU drivers, and acceleration techniques are arriving faster than internal teams can evaluate them. The signals show large performance differences from parallelization, speculative decoding, kernel selection, and driver versions, creating immediate value for workload-specific tuning.

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Google TrendsAug 30, 2026
multi GPU LLM optimization

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RedditAug 30, 2026
r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next optimised for Macs

EDIT: in the tests above, I forgot to enable one more optimisation - useful when RAM and cache are small. Doesn’t help my numbers with MTP off (since I can cache enough tensors), but with MTP on I can still reach 185-190 tps prefill, basically making MTP the default choice, with no downsides. This might also be because \~190 tps prefill might be the hardware limit. Will add a comment later after all tests are done, with 256K context as well. Running on a M1 Max 64 GB: \- SSD streaming for tensors \- SSD streaming for engrams \- SSD streaming for MTP How is it possible? \* Custom Q4 quant: benchmarked all metal tensors then picked and spliced tensors from multiple Unsloth and AtomicChat quants to achieve best performance/bit. \* Developed custom metal-optimized sparse attention mechanism, with almost linear degradation instead of the standard llama.cpp quadratic attention. \* Using Q4\_0 MTP - same acceptance rates as unsloth Q8\_0 at half the RAM. \* Dynamic MTP speculation size - leads to disabling MTP at the point where context size makes MTP a negative. \* Various fixes to metal kernels, qwen graph and qwen indexer. [github.com/.../llama.cpp](github.com/.../llama.cpp) Special thanks to Claude - three weeks worth of tokens and some extra out of pocket usage credits made it all possible. Feedback appreciated. Note: enabling MTP uses more RAM, which means less cache for tensors, leading to prefill going from 180 tps to g170 tps (at 4K). For 256K context, more RAM is needed for KV cache, prefill goes down to 150 tps. But with MTP, decode gains +70%, going up to 22 btps. So if you need highest prefill, disable MTP. A

RedditAug 30, 2026
r/LocalLLaMA
Ran Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (79 GB, 2-bit) at 350K ctx for 3.5 hours on a 128 GB M5 Max — speed vs context depth, 100 turns, one graph

**Setup:** MacBook Pro M5 Max, 128 GB unified, macOS 26.5.2 · llama.cpp b10686 (Metal, 12 threads, batch 2048, flash-attn, kv-unified, ngram-mod spec decode) · Qwen3.8-Flash-Next UD-Q2\_K\_XL (Unsloth), 78.9 GB · 358,400-token context slot via YaRN from the native 262,144, fp16 KV. Weights + full 350K KV fit under the default 96 GB GPU wired limit — no sysctl hack. **The session:** one slot, 100 turns, two conversations. Conv 1 grew 0 → 48K ctx on prefix reuse; after a \~20 min idle the slot kept only its 5.5K system prefix, so the next turn cold-prefilled the whole **105K prompt in 333 s** — the run's longest prefill — and the conversation kept growing to **169,425 ctx, the session's deepest point** (350K was slot capacity, never filled). Slot reset; conv 2 grew to \~125K where I stopped capture. **The graph:** x = slot context size where each measurement happened; y = printed tokens/s, log scale (the two phases span \~2 decades). Green = prompt processing, red = token generation. Dots = in-flight checkpoints, squares = per-turn finals. No smoothing, no fitting. * **Prefill (green):** the smooth top curve is cold prefills — 1,561 t/s at the first checkpoint (5.6K ctx), tapering to 318 t/s at 111K as the KV fills. The green band below is what a *normal* turn looks like: a few thousand new tokens at each depth (77–854 t/s, out to 169K ctx), because prefix reuse means only the delta gets prefilled. * **Decode (red):** one clean taper — \~30–35 t/s at small ctx → \~21 at 45K → 13–15 at 100–125K → **11.5 t/s at 169K**. The dip to 7.7 t/s around \~140K is macOS Low Power Mode; still usable. One caveat on the decode numbers: they are effective throughput with ngram-mod spec decode enabled (draft acceptance ranged 0–81% depending on content), not base-model speed. Practical read: with prefix reuse a turn's prefill is seconds; the 5.5-minut...

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