From 1 GPU to 8 GPUs: Complete LLM Deployment Guide for Every Budget

From 1 GPU to 8 GPUs: Complete LLM Deployment Guide for Every Budget

💡 What You Will Learn

From 1 GPU to 8 GPUs: Complete LLM Deployment Guide for Every Budget

📜 Table of Contents

• Local LLM Deployment Guide
• Quick start with Ollama
• Hardware requirements

Local LLM Deployment Guide

Running LLMs locally gives you privacy, zero API costs, and full control.

Quick start with Ollama

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run qwen2.5:7b

Hardware requirements

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen2.5:7b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)

Local LLMs in 2026 are production-ready. Start with Ollama and a 7B model.