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# How to Run Distributed Llama on 🍓 Raspberry Pi
This article describes how to run Distributed Llama on 4 Raspberry Pi devices, but you can also run it on 1, 2, 4, 8... devices. Please adjust the commands and topology according to your configuration.
````
[🔀 SWITCH OR ROUTER]
| | | |
| | | |_______ 🔸 raspberrypi1 (ROOT) 10.0.0.1
| | |_________ 🔹 raspberrypi2 (WORKER 1) 10.0.0.2:9999
| |___________ 🔹 raspberrypi3 (WORKER 2) 10.0.0.3:9999
|_____________ 🔹 raspberrypi4 (WORKER 3) 10.0.0.4:9999
````
1. Install `Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64 bit)` on your **🔸🔹 ALL** Raspberry Pi devices. This OS doesn't have desktop environment but you can easily connect via SSH to manage it.
2. Connect **🔸🔹 ALL** devices to your **🔀 SWITCH OR ROUTER** via Ethernet cable. If you're using only two devices, it's better to connect them directly without a switch.
3. Connect to all devices via SSH from your computer.
```
ssh user@raspberrypi1.local
ssh user@raspberrypi2.local
ssh user@raspberrypi3.local
ssh user@raspberrypi4.local
```
4. Install Git on **🔸🔹 ALL** devices:
```sh
sudo apt install git
```
5. Clone this repository and compile Distributed Llama on **🔸🔹 ALL** devices:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama.git
cd distributed-llama
make dllama
make dllama-api
```
6. Download the model to the **🔸 ROOT** device using the `launch.py` script. You don't need to download the model on worker devices.
```sh
python3 launch.py # Prints a list of available models
python3 launch.py llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40 # Downloads the model to the root device
```
7. Assign static IP addresses on **🔸🔹 ALL** devices. Each device must have a unique IP address in the same subnet.
```sh
sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 dev eth0 # 🔸 ROOT
sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.2/24 dev eth0 # 🔹 WORKER 1
sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.3/24 dev eth0 # 🔹 WORKER 2
sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.4/24 dev eth0 # 🔹 WORKER 3
```
8. Start workers on all **🔹 WORKER** devices:
```sh
sudo nice -n -20 ./dllama worker --port 9999 --nthreads 4
```
9. Run the inference to test if everything works fine on the **🔸 ROOT** device:
```sh
sudo nice -n -20 ./dllama inference \
--prompt "Hello world" \
--steps 32 \
--model models/llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40/dllama_model_llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40.m \
--tokenizer models/llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40/dllama_tokenizer_llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40.t \
--buffer-float-type q80 \
--nthreads 4 \
--max-seq-len 4096 \
--workers 10.0.0.2:9999 10.0.0.3:9999 10.0.0.4:9999
```
10. To run the API server, start it on the **🔸 ROOT** device:
```sh
sudo nice -n -20 ./dllama-api \
--port 9999 \
--model models/llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40/dllama_model_llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40.m \
--tokenizer models/llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40/dllama_tokenizer_llama3_2_3b_instruct_q40.t \
--buffer-float-type q80 \
--nthreads 4 \
--max-seq-len 4096 \
--workers 10.0.0.2:9999 10.0.0.3:9999 10.0.0.4:9999
```
Now you can connect to the API server from your computer:
```
http://raspberrypi1.local:9999/v1/models
```
11. When the API server is running, you can open the web chat in your browser, open [llama-ui.js.org](https://llama-ui.js.org/), go to the settings and set the base URL to: `http://raspberrypi1.local:9999`. Press the "save" button and start chatting!