tesla-p40

Tesla P40 in a Dell R730 — 7x active, PCIe bifurcation + V100 in progress. Riser topology, fan control, 3D enclosures.

Run a Tesla P40 (Pascal, sm_61) under WSL2 for local LLM serving: MCDM driver model, CUDA 12.9, Docker GPU passthrough, and llama.cpp built for sm_61. Benchmarked on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at ~51 tok/s with 128K context.

CUDA I/O optimizer for llama.cpp MTP

Windows 10 setup notes and a 3D-printed cooling adapter for running an NVIDIA Tesla P40 in a desktop PC for AI workloads.

Python tool for P40 VRAM defrag and KV-cache optimization

Bash script for running 35B-mini GGUF on Tesla P40 with RTX 3050 offload

Bash script for 72B LLM testing on Tesla P40 with RTX 3050 offload

Benchmark dataset for Qwen 3.6 27B model performance testing