Infrastructure

Home lab · Airway Heights, WA · Always-on

Compute Nodes

cha0tiktower
Primary Inference Node
System
Custom tower build
CPU
Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
CPU config
20c/20t · 5.3 GHz boost
GPU
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB GDDR7 × 2 Blackwell SM_120
VRAM total
32 GB GDDR7 TP=2
PCIe config
x8 Gen5 + x4 Gen4
RAM
32 GB DDR5 192 GB max
Storage
2 TB PCIe 4 NVMe
CUDA
12.8
Inference
vLLM · llama.cpp
Proxy
local inference proxy
OS
Ubuntu 24.04
cha0tikhome
Orchestration Node
System
Beelink EQI12
CPU
Intel i5-1235U (12th Gen)
CPU config
12c · 4.4 GHz boost
RAM
32 GB DDR4
Storage
1 TB NVMe
OS
Ubuntu 24.04
Uptime
Always-on
Agents
Frank Kato Mike Hermes Sabrina
Web
nginx · cloudflared tunnel
Backup
476 GB NVMe · 3am daily · 30-day retention
cha0tikmac
Dev Workstation
System
MacBook Air M4
RAM
32 GB unified
Role
Primary dev · Claude Code CLI

Network Topology

Cluster link
Direct Ethernet
External access
Tailscale mesh (all nodes)
Inference proxy
Local proxy · single swap point for all clients
Web routing
cloudflared → nginx
SSH
Tailscale-only · not internet-exposed