Yes, it runs totally fine. I ran it in Oobabooga/text generation web ui. Nice thing about it is that it autodownloads all necessary gpu binaries on it's own and creates a isolated conda env. I asked same questions on the official 70b demo and got same answers. I even got better answers with ooba, since the demo cuts text early
Not really? I just got those cards in separate PCI slots and the Exllama_hf handles spreading the load internally. No NVLink bridge in particular. I use the "20,22" memory split so that the display card has some room for the framebuffer to handle display
Do you mean you don't use NVLink or just use one that works? I am under the impression it is being phased out ("PCIe 5 is fast enough") and some kits don't use it.