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• 21:57, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Qdrant (Created page with "==Introduction== '''Qdrant''' stands as a high-performance, production-ready vector similarity search engine and database, meticulously engineered to address the demanding requirements of modern generative AI applications. At its core, it functions as a robust storage and retrieval system for high-dimensional vectors, which are essential for powering the semantic search and context-retrieval pipelines integral to systems like '''Glossary#RAG|Retrie...")
• 20:44, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Hierarchical Navigable Small World (Created page with "==Introduction== Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) is a cutting-edge graph-based algorithm utilized for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional vector spaces. Within the broader ecosystem of the '''Glossary''' infrastructure, it functions as the critical indexing mechanism that enables real-time retrieval from massive vector databases. Unlike exhaustive search methods that compare a query vector against every single data point—a proce...")
• 19:44, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Perplexity (Created page with "==Introduction== Perplexity is a fundamental metric used to evaluate the performance of probabilistic models, most notably '''Large Language Models'''. In its simplest form, it provides an objective measure of how well a probability distribution—or a model—predicts a specific sample of text. If you imagine the model as an agent attempting to guess the next word in a sentence, perplexity acts as a measure of the agent's uncertainty. A model with low...")
• 17:06, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page High-Bit Quantization (Created page with "==Introduction== '''High-Bit Quantization''', specifically targeting FP16 (16-bit floating point) and BF16 (Brain Floating Point), serves as the bedrock for modern, efficient deep learning deployment. While full-precision training (FP32) is often required for the stability of initial model convergence, these high-bit formats provide the necessary balance between computational throughput and output fidelity for '''Glossary...")
• 16:03, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Paged Attention (Created page with "==Introduction== PagedAttention represents a fundamental shift in how modern inference engines manage memory for Large Language Models by addressing the fragmentation and inefficiency inherent in traditional KV Cache management. By moving away from static memory allocation, this technique allows for the non-contiguous storage of KV Cache blocks. This approach draws inspiration from...")
• 15:01, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page NVIDIA Tensor Cores and AMD Matrix Cores (Created page with "== Introduction == This reference page outlines the hardware acceleration components that drive our local machine learning infrastructure on nodes like Arbour and Grape and our experimental unified memory systems. Understanding the operational distinctions between general purpose scalar processing units and specialized matrix acceleration hardware is essential for optimizing our inference pipelines and managing hardware performance expectations. Wh...")
• 13:42, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Asymmetric Quantization (Created page with "== Introduction == This guide provides a comprehensive technical breakdown of Asymmetric '''Quantization''', an advanced numerical compression technique fundamental to deploying massive neural networks on our local infrastructure. While standard quantization broadly reduces the physical memory footprint of a '''Large Language Model''', understanding the precise mechanics of asymmetric scaling reveals how w...")
• 09:36, 1 July 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Large Language Model Introduction (Created page with "== Introduction == Welcome to the Large Language Model reference ledger for the Neural Systems Engineering project. This comprehensive guide details the foundational architecture, active model families, and specific hardware orchestration strategies applied across our local infrastructure network. Large language models represent the core cognitive engine of modern artificial intelligence, driving everything from automated terminal execution loops to semantic search clust...")
• 23:49, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Scaled Dot-Product Attention (Created page with "==Introduction== This guide provides a comprehensive technical breakdown of Scaled Dot-Product Attention, the core mathematical mechanism that drives the reasoning capacity of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). While our memory management pages detail how parameters occupy space, this manual explains the actual linear algebra occurring inside our GPUs during the prefill and decode execution loops. The ability of a 14B model to isolate a subtle stack trace out of a mas...")
• 19:29, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Understanding Token and Cache Mechanics (Created page with "==Introduction== This guide maps the foundational memory architecture of local Large Language Models by examining the relationship between Tokens, the Context Window, and the Key-Value (KV) Cache. In local infrastructure development, memory management is not an abstract concept; it is a physical constraint dictated entirely by GPU hardware boundaries. Understanding how text is parsed, how a model maintains its train of thought, and how VRAM is consumed dynamically durin...")
• 17:30, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Understanding Quantization Mechanics (Created page with "==Introduction== This guide provides a comprehensive reference for Quantization Mechanics, the primary data compression framework that enables high-capacity Large Language Models to run locally within our infrastructure. By reducing the numerical precision of a model's parameters, we can compress its physical memory footprint by nearly 75% with negligible loss to its logical reasoning capabilities. This page details the underlying mechanics of this compression, maps the...")
• 15:53, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page File:KVCacheMemoryCostvsContextLength.png (KV Cache Memory Scaling by Parameter Size)
• 15:53, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs uploaded File:KVCacheMemoryCostvsContextLength.png (KV Cache Memory Scaling by Parameter Size)
• 14:51, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Inference Hardware Guide (Created page with "==Introduction== This guide maps LLM parameter sizes to available GPU hardware. It provides a baseline for selecting models that balance reasoning capability against the specific VRAM constraints of your lab's hosts, including the P4000, 5060Ti, and 4080 Super. Refer back to the '''Glossary''' for core definitions.")
• 14:35, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Engineering Foundations (Created page with "Introduction This page defines the core technical and philosophical parameters of the Neural Systems Engineering project. It serves as the baseline for all subsequent development, housing the essential terminology, hardware requirements, and design standards that govern the laboratory's cognitive infrastructure. By establishing these foundations, we ensure that the integration of local LLMs and agentic services remains robust, scalable, and fully under local control...")
• 14:18, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Glossary (Created page with "==Introduction== This page serves as the foundational reference for the Neural Systems Engineering project. It provides a standardized set of definitions for the technical terminology, acronyms, and operational concepts used throughout the lab's AI documentation. By maintaining a consistent lexicon, this glossary ensures that all infrastructure development, from hardware optimization to agentic scripting, is documented with precision and clarity. Refer to this list to r...")
• 14:08, 27 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Neural Systems Engineering (Created page with "==Introduction== This is the central hub for the Neural Systems Engineering project. This section documents the design, deployment, and operation of a sovereign, locally-hosted artificial intelligence environment. Moving beyond standard homelab practices, this infrastructure integrates high-performance LLM inference, vector-based memory retrieval, and agentic automation to provide a self-contained cognitive layer for the network. ==Engineering Foundations== This se...")
• 16:22, 25 June 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page 2026 Proxmox Servers (Created page with "==📋Introduction== After some time passed and we decided to pursue the AI technology trend we decided that the ''' original server layout''' was not well suited to the new and changed role. Pear was a general purpose Proxmox host with a fast CPU and Maximum Ram and three 16 TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs making a great system for a home lab with only one host. As time passed the quantity of virtual machines increased the host became bogged down with low dema...")
• 21:15, 11 May 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Minecraft (Created page with "==Introduction== We are to have some Minecraft servers on the Homelab. The general setup will be to have a Velocity server in front several Minecraft host VMs. Velocity works in a similar way to a Nginx reverse proxy whereby Pfsense forwards all Minecraft traffic to the Velocity server including the SNI and Velocity redirects traffic to the required hostname based on the DNS name. Cloudflare does not reverse proxy Minecraft traffic on the free tier and as we do not...")
• 15:26, 7 April 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Silvan Reporter (Created page with "==Introduction== The Intention of the Silvan Reporter is to generate reports on the current state of the Homelab. it will also be able to show the current status of all of the entire network. ==Outline== The outline of the project is to have a LXC on Orchard with a SWI Prolog orchestrator with a Go application that builds a model of the current Silvan network then uses the data from the Victoria metrics / Prometheus application to report on the current status of all o...")
• 20:03, 3 March 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Linux Commands (Created page with "==Introduction== we have a random collection of commands that we should remember but just in case a re listed and explained here for our convenience. ==STORAGE & INODES== * df -h : Check disk space (Is the 2TB NVMe or 800GB SSD full?). * df -h <path> : Show Human-readable Free space on the disk partition containing that directory. * df -h /mnt/fast_scratch how much room is left in the volume fast_scratch * df -i /mnt/fast_scratch : Check Inode usage (Crucial for the Gu...")
• 10:54, 28 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Apache & Nginx (Created page with "==Introduction== The purpose of this guide is to delineate the strategic integration of the Apache HTTP Server and Nginx within a modern web infrastructure, specifically focusing on the deployment of a robust, tiered hosting environment. In the contemporary landscape of system administration, the choice is rarely between one server or the other; rather, it is about how to leverage the specialized strengths of each to create a platform that is both highly performant and...")
• 10:51, 28 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Reference Notes (Created page with "==Introduction== We do sometimes forget the notes that we made to do some of the common tasks like creating a new website or checking the state of the drives and although they are quite easy to do and we have done them before they are easily forgotten. To that end we need a ready reference section that just points to all of these easy setup jobs with some sort of reference notes to remind us of how and why we did them like we did. == Apache & Nginx | Apache & Nginx D...")
• 03:35, 28 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Bookstack (Created page with "==Introduction== We wanted an alterative notebook application for the evolution of the Home Lab. As we already a ''' webserver''' setup already and the install was not going to need much in the way of resources like nextcloud or new libs we have added it as another vhost on '''Plum''' instead of another ''' Virtual Machine'''. One the advantages of using an existing webserver are that the supporting services that are already i...")
• 00:41, 24 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Homelab Dashboard (Created page with "==Introduction== We have decided to setup a homelab dashboard to monitor and administer the entire estate of Virtual machines, Proxmox hosts and all of the services that we have created. initially we will use the dashy dashboard but may well change for something else if dashy proves to be to difficult or in some way unsuitable. ==Dashy Setup== in the interests of security for this sensitive project we are extending your "Full-Chain TLS" SME standard to Blackberry. Thi...")
• 07:52, 22 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Unified Monitoring Stack (Created page with "==Introduction== Mango, located at 192.168.110.133 on the Infra network, is the unified successor to the Pineapple/Granadilla/Victoria triad. It serves as the central "brain" for the home lab's observability. Mango natively scrapes metrics from all Virtual Machines and the Proxmox host (Pear), stores them in a high-performance VictoriaMetrics time-series database, and provides a Grafana interface for visualization. By consolidating these services, we reduce network ove...")
• 11:48, 16 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Letsencrypt SSL Certs (Created page with "==Introduction== We chose to use Letsencrypt SSL certificates in addition to the Cloudflare origin certs because we occasionally need to serve SSL websites and services directly and while the cloudflare origin certs work well and are easy to setup, they are not publicly recognised. To set up the ACME LetsEncrypt service (specifically using acme.sh) on '' Raisin''' with Cloudflare DNS, we will want to use a wildcard cert so that we don't have to keep on...")
• 19:47, 15 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Kiwi & OpenAlex failure while indexing the 2026 Import (Created page with "==Introduction==")
• 18:42, 15 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Problems & Solutions (Created page with "==Introduction== We need to keep a problem log of all network problems as they occur")
• 14:54, 15 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Management kiosk (Created page with "==Introduction== The Homelab has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict that to the LAN so to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it b...")
• 04:46, 13 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page ZFS Commands (Created page with "==Introduction== There are lots of commands that will show and control how the ZFS pools are run on the Proxmox hosts so we need a brief guide to ZFS")
• 23:10, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs deleted page File:PromoxNetworkv6.1.svg (content was: "== Summary == svg version of the network diagram as a it was at feb 2026", and the only contributor was "Wikisailor" (talk))
• 23:09, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page File:PromoxNetworkv6.svg (Network diagram as it was in Feb 2026)
• 23:09, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs uploaded File:PromoxNetworkv6.svg (Network diagram as it was in Feb 2026)
• 22:41, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs deleted page File:Testanim.svg (content was: "== Summary == test animation to see if the file works", and the only contributor was "Wikisailor" (talk))
• 22:39, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page File:Testanim.svg (test animation to see if the file works)
• 22:39, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs uploaded File:Testanim.svg (test animation to see if the file works)
• 22:19, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page File:PromoxNetworkv6.1.svg (svg version of the network diagram as a it was at feb 2026)
• 22:19, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs uploaded File:PromoxNetworkv6.1.svg (svg version of the network diagram as a it was at feb 2026)
• 19:56, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page File:PromoxNetworkV6.1.webp (Network Diagram as at feb 2026)
• 19:56, 12 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs uploaded File:PromoxNetworkV6.1.webp (Network Diagram as at feb 2026)
• 10:46, 9 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page AI & Jellyfin (Created page with "== Docker Applications installed on Quince == ===Installation Strategy=== Once the Blackwell GPU passthrough was verified on the Pear host, we transitioned to the Quince VM to set up the containerized environment. This allows us to run high-performance AI (Ollama) and media (Jellyfin) apps while keeping the base OS clean. ===Docker Engine Installation=== We use the official Docker repository to ensure access to v29+, which includes critical patches for Gen 5 PCIe and...")
• 08:18, 9 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page The Web Archive (ArchiveBox) (Created page with "==📖 Introduction== ArchiveBox is a self-hosted web archiving solution. Unlike a simple bookmark, it takes a "snapshot" of a page in multiple formats so that if the original site goes down, you still have the full content. * The Outputs: For every URL you save, it creates a PDF, a Screenshot (PNG), a Single-File HTML, and a Wget clone. * The Goal: To build a searchable, permanent record of the specific web resources you use for research, separate from the broad scale o...")
• 07:20, 9 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page The Kiwix Archive (Created page with "📖 Introduction Kiwix is an offline content reader that allows you to browse massive websites—like Wikipedia, StackExchange, or Project Gutenberg—without an internet connection. * The Format: It uses highly compressed .ZIM files. A single file can contain the entirety of Wikipedia (with images) or the complete medical encyclopedia. * The Goal: To provide a permanent, offline knowledge base that remains accessible even if the internet is down, serving everyone on yo...")
• 04:07, 9 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page OpenAlex (Created page with "==Introduction== OpenAlex is a massive, open-source index of the world's scholarly research. It contains over 250 million "Works" (papers, books, etc.), along with millions of authors and institutions. * The Goal: To have a local, lightning-fast search engine on Tayberry that allows you to query this entire 250M+ dataset without relying on their public API. * The Engine: We use OpenSearch, which is a powerful "big data" search engine that excels at full-text search and c...")
• 15:23, 8 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Systems & Services (Created page with "==Introduction== As an alternative to showing all of the services in the '''Virtual Machines''' section we will start listing them here as a service, it would make more sense as the '''Home Lab''' grows to cross reference in alternative links, especially as there are two '''Proxmox Servers'''")
• 13:40, 5 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Notes on Wikimedia (Created page with "==Introduction== In this section we will have a odd collection of notes on how to present things with Wiki markup. A lot of things will be in their own section so it is easy to open just that item ==Drawing and graphical content== The simplest graphic to use is the emojis as they are just a few bytes long they don't use a lot of storage and download as fast as any text There is a small curated list of them just for this wiki")
• 12:25, 5 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Template:Host (Created page with "'''{{{1}}}''' {{{2}}} (IP: {{{3}}}) {{Host|🥝|Kiwi|192.168.1.112}}")
• 12:00, 5 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page The Fruit Lab Icon Set (Created page with "==Introduction== here are a few nice little icons 🍎 An Apple 🥝 The Kiwi Host [Host: Kiwi] 🍐 The Pear Host [Host: Pear] 🍇 The Grape Workstation [Client: Grape] 🍓 The Blackberry VM [VM: Blackberry] 🌊 The Data Tsunami [Task: Migration] 🛡️ pfSense Firewall [Gatekeeper] 📡 Wi-Fi Backdoor [WLAN Management] 🚀 2.5G FruitNet [High-Speed Backplane] 🐌 1G / Dumb Switch [Legacy/WAN Path] 📦 ZFS Dataset [Storage: Pool/Vol]")
• 15:46, 3 February 2026 Wikisailor talk contribs created page Data Archive (Created page with "==Introduction== We are building an offline vault of data for use over the next few years. To accomplish that We need to have one or more '''Virtual Machines''' that will be able to download and store the data. As most of the load will be on CPU storage and Internet bandwidth for the archival we will keep this part separate from the AI and Jellyfin host Quince that is powered by a ''' GPU Passthrough'''. ==Reasons for a Data...")