prabanta-dev/janas
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A C inference engine for running large mixture-of-experts language models on ordinary computers, with or without a GPU. Weights stay on disk, and the experts each token needs are streamed from an NVMe SSD and cached in memory. Benchmarks against llama.cpp are reported on one…
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Developers and enthusiasts running large local LLMs on consumer hardware with limited RAM
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- Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD220 points · 94 comments · 12 Oct 2026
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