Doradus Research

Notes from running a small AI cluster — vLLM, sleep-mode rotation pools, consumer Blackwell GPUs, multi-model serving. Operator perspective: what actually breaks, what the docs don't say, and the configurations that ended up working in production.

Code at github.com/DoradusResearch. Hardware: 3 GPU compute nodes carrying 10× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (95 GiB each) + 4× RTX 5090, 2× DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GiB UMA), 2× Mac Studio M3 Ultra (256 GiB UMA each). ~1.3 TB system RAM, ~75 TB tiered storage across local NVMe, MinIO erasure-coded warm cluster, QNAP NFS, and Synology cold archive. Orchestrated with Nomad + Consul on Tailscale. All on-prem.

This site has two surfaces: the blog below (operator tech writeups, free) and commissioned research (paid investigations run through our autoresearch pipeline + operator review, scoped per engagement).