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Distributed LLM Inference via Pipeline Parallelism on Intel AI PC Fleets

Intel AI PCs with integrated GPUs and NPUs can collaborate over a network to run large LLMs beyond the memory limits of a single device by splitting models into pipeline shards. This approach enables serving models like 70B-parameter LLMs using multiple devices working together.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-19T17:33:28+00:00 Detected 2026-08-20T05:21:13+00:00
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Intel AI PCs with integrated GPUs and NPUs can collaborate over a network to run large LLMs beyond the memory limits of a single device by splitting models into pipeline shards. This approach enables serving models like 70B-parameter LLMs using multiple devices working together.

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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...

This method leverages idle AI PC resources and standard networks to enable distributed inference of large language models without requiring specialized hardware. It expands the practical deployment of large LLMs on more accessible computing fleets.

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