I wish we could stream active data to RAM, directly from the NVMe drive for the 2TB K3 model. Can't wait for prism-ml/ to release a ternary 2bit model, which would make this a bit more tenable.

A 2 bit model is still 700gbs you need to stream through.

I know we say reading is free (vs writing). But on a 2tb drive, you're doing a full drive read for every three tokens. Thats 333,000 drive reads just to fill up the context. Well, this is at least an moe model so not that terrible. But i think the point remains

You can, but the reported speeds for such big models were in the range from a token per a dozen seconds to slightly better than 1 or 2 tokens per second.