Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

5 hours ago (github.com)

This could be a game changer for me. The best I've been able to do so far is ~8 tok/s with Qwen 35B A3B, 32GB RAM. But then again I just got an OpenCode Go plan yesterday and have yet to figure if I can even consume my quota on DeepSeek Flash as the need to plan things well is bottlenecking me. Might be a while before I try the local thing again.

If anyone needs to see what 62 tokens/second looks like: https://token.qusai.pro/?speed=62

Which seems sufficient for mortals who are not running gas town, but want a local model.

Why are the models being used so old (in llm years anyway). Why no Qwen 3.8 ?

  • Based on how vibe-coded this whole thing is, I’m guessing the newer models weren’t in the training data and the agent just picked what it knew existed.

I wonder when we will start seeing small commercial accelerators integrated with NVMes; could potentially use far more bandwidth than typical NVMe drive can push thru the four lanes.

Given that you'd have probably a lot more capacity just to get to required bandwidth it could be used to switch very quickly between models (as all stored there would essentially be "loaded")

There are many of these stream-experts-from-SDDD projects now. What's needed is a guide to all of them and maybe for someone to take the best features of each of them and merge them into one uber project.