Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
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The thread discusses the feasibility of running a large language model (Gemma 4 26B) on a 13-year-old Xeon CPU with no GPU, achieving 5 tokens/sec. Without access to actual comments, the discussion's details are unclear, but the topic centers on extreme inference optimization and hardware constraints; the conversation appears nascent or not captured.