Deschutes Tech Guild - January Meetup
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Who: Christian
What: AI Prototyping on DGX Spark
Detail: Developers keep running into the same wall when they try to run modern AI models locally. Laptops throttle, cloud costs sting, and the tooling feels scattered. This session explores what happens when you drop a DGX Spark onto your desk and pair it with the full NVIDIA ecosystem. We look at why the hardware architecture matters, how CUDA lights up on both transformer inference and high throughput embedding generation, and what real benchmarks say about latency, throughput, and sustained load under proper batching. The goal is simple. Show how a small but serious machine can turn local inference from a compromise into a superpower.
About the speaker: Christian has been building software since 2001, moving through the full stack from web and frontend work to large scale backend and distributed systems. His recent exploration of the DGX Spark is part of a broader effort to understand how modern AI and open source infrastructure fit together in practice.
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