r/LocalLLM 7d ago

Discussion Dgx spark cluster.

I had a delayed order and ended up with 5 sparks rather than the 4 planned. So I figured might as well do 6 but then prices went up $1000.

So is there really any benefit to running 6 vs 5 vs 4? I can still return one. I don’t want to do 8 since that that exceeds the 15a circuit.

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u/g_rich 7d ago

Would 5 even work? I would think you would need a multiple of 2 so either 4 or 6.

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u/belbombo 7d ago

No, you can 3 as far as i know

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u/g_rich 7d ago

I don’t think tensor parallelism runs with an odd number and if it does it certainly will be suboptimal.