Completed
Cluster monitoring & HUD
Metrics, logs and dashboards for the whole Lab, with status screens on the rack.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Lab controller
- Rack status displays
Projects / Completed
Finished and closed.
Completed builds and research live here alongside projects that were retired or folded into other work. Each entry states how it ended.
Updated October 15, 2026.
Completed
Cluster provisioning
Repeatable setup for the Lab's machines, virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, with the isolation needed to run other people's work safely.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Cluster network, VM hosts and attached hardware
Completed
LiteLLM gateway
One gateway in front of every model the Lab serves, from the DGX Sparks and the GPU server, alongside cloud models. Each key sees only the models it is allowed to use.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Cluster model-serving resources
Completed research
8 GB model testing
Tested a quantized Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on memory-constrained hardware: whether it fits, how fast it decodes, and how good its output stays.
Model files ↗Model announcement ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- BC-160
- GPU bench
Completed build
Updated GPU Bench
A 4U GPU server now holds eight data-centre GPUs, four V100s and four P100s, with 192 GB of GPU memory between them. It is the Lab's main GPU machine, and its P100s are Thermite's research lanes.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- 4U GPU server
- 4 × V100 32 GB
- 4 × P100 16 GB
Abandoned
ZD Web Server
Serving the ZD harness and editor over the web, with a headless way to work with agent projects across the cluster. Development stopped.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- N150
Abandoned
fxClaw
An agent system in the vein of OpenClaw, Hermes, PicoClaw and NanoClaw, built in Zig with fx.sh as its foundation. Development stopped.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- MS-A2
Completed
pod-pi
Named, persistent Pi coding workspaces in rootless Podman containers. They can connect to a configured model provider, including models hosted on the DGX Sparks; pod-pi does not host a model server.
Explore pod-pi on GitHub ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Linux hosts
- Configured model provider, including DGX Sparks
Completed prototype
esp32-fx
Runs the fx coding agent on native Linux on an ESP32-S3. WAMR runs the fx WebAssembly core, and a Seeed reTerminal E1001 e-paper display shows the agent’s response. Model inference uses a remote provider.
Explore the esp32-fx source on GitHub ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Microbench
- Seeed reTerminal E1001 with ESP32-S3
Completed prototype
ESP32 Needle 3
A Needle 3 agent running on ESP32 hardware. The separate decode-speed research phase has also been completed.
Explore ESP32 Needle 3 on GitHub ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Microbench
Completed research
DeepSeek Flash 4.1
The research phase using a pair of DGX Sparks is complete. Performance results have not been supplied for publication here.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- 2 × DGX Spark
Completed build
GPU cooling shrouds
Cooling shrouds for the Lab's P100, P4, and V100 cards are complete. Installation and measured cooling results have not been documented here.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- P100, P4, and V100 GPU cards
Completed research
ESP32 Needle 3 decode research
A follow-on phase explored faster decode while retaining eight layers and checking output quality. The work is complete; performance findings have not been supplied for publication here.
Explore the ESP32 Needle 3 repository ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- Microbench
- pod-pi
- pi-autoresearch
Completed
TypeSafe AI Benchmark
A completed benchmark project comparing structured-output approaches and model behavior.
Explore the benchmark on GitHub ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- MacBook
Completed
freeinferencing.com
The freeinferencing.com project and its related work are complete.
Visit freeinferencing.com ↗- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- MS-A2
Abandoned
microWASM
Development stopped. Existing WebAssembly runtimes such as Wasmer, Wasmtime, nodewasm, and wasmCloud are better options for this work.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- MS-A2
Abandoned
threaded
Development stopped in favor of Google's agent-substrate project.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- MS-A2
Merged into another project
An agent on your wrist
The standalone wrist-agent idea was folded into A tiny pet on your wrist, which continues as an active project led by Shannon's daughter.
- Project lead
- Shannon Duncan ↗
- Hardware & resources
- K15
- ESP32-S3 wearable
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