(If you need even more memory you could equip one of those servers with 6TB of DDR3 but you’ll lose a bit of bandwidth if you go over 2TB. DDR4 is also a slightly faster option but you’re spending 4x as much for the same capacity.)
(If you need even more memory you could equip one of those servers with 6TB of DDR3 but you’ll lose a bit of bandwidth if you go over 2TB. DDR4 is also a slightly faster option but you’re spending 4x as much for the same capacity.)
Edit: And also, to get even half as much memory, you need to spend $10k. If you want to host actually-large LLMs (not quantized/distilled versions), you'll need to spend close to that much. Maybe you can get away with 256GB for now, but that won't even host full Deepseek now (and I don't know if 512GB either, with OS/etc overhead, and a large context window).
People were buying stores empty of GPUs to mine for BTC.
Then people built custom ASICs that couldn't do anything but mine BTC, but did it a lot cheaper and with a lot less electricity required -> nobody GPU mines anymore pretty much.
I'm waiting for a similar thing to happen to local AI.