MCP in LM Studio

Just ordered a $12k mac studio w/ 512GB of integrated RAM.

Can't wait for it to arrive and crank up LM Studio. It's literally the first install. I'm going to download it with safari.

LM Studio is newish, and it's not a perfect interface yet, but it's fantastic at what it does which is bring local LLMs to the masses w/o them having to know much.

There is another project that people should be aware of: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Exo is this radically cool tool that automatically clusters all hosts on your network running Exo and uses their combined GPUs for increased throughput.

Like HPC environments, you are going to need ultra fast interconnects, but it's just IP based.

I love LM studio but I’d never waste 12k like that. The memory bandwidth is too low trust me.

Get the RTX Pro 6000 for 8.5k with double the bandwidth. It will be way better

Why would they pay 2/3 of the price for something with 1/5 of ram?

The whole point of spending that much money for them is to run massive models, like the full R1, which the Pro 6000 cant

Because waiting forever for initial prompt processing with realistic number of MCP tools enabled on a prompt is going to suck without the most bandwidth possible

And you are never going to sit around waiting for anything larger than the 96+gb of ram that the RTX pro has.

If you’re using it for background tasks and not coding it’s a different story