Pre-Compiled Pipeline Shards for Distributed LLM Inference on Intel AI PC Fleets

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Pre-Compiled Pipeline Shards for Distributed LLM Inference on Intel AI PC Fleets

Modern Intel AI PCs ship capable integrated GPUs and NPUs with 16+ GB of unified memory, and they spend considerable time idle. That is not enough memory to fit a large model such as a 70B-parameter LLM. We show that a handful of AIPCs, working together over an ordinary network, can serve models beyond the capability of any single one. We use pipeline parallelism: a model is split by layer into per-stage shards, each pre-compiled into an OpenVINO graph, so that every machine runs one shard and p

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