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> Prerequisites: A system with sufficient GPU/CPU resources.

The article doesn't give a hint what those resources are, but I assume that my macbook doesn't have it.

So if I wanted to setup Ollama on digitalOcean [which offers both gpus and cpus], is there a good guide?

How would that compare to running locally?

How would that compare (privacy, quality, ease, etc) to huggingface or others?

Good point, I didn’t mention the hardware requirements in the article. Ollama runs best with a dedicated GPU, but it can work on CPUs (just much slower). If you're on a MacBook with an M1 or higher chip, it should work, but performance won’t be great.

I haven’t set up Ollama on DigitalOcean yet, but since they offer GPU instances, it should be a solid option. I’ll test it and write a guide soon.

Compared to running locally or using something like Hugging Face, DigitalOcean gives more power and flexibility but requires setup, while Hugging Face is easier but less customizable. I’ll share an update once I’ve tested the DigitalOcean setup

For most people, this guide will help you to run a DeepSeek trained distill on your machine, not the actual DSR1 model.

Thanks for pointing that out! Yes, this guide is mainly for running a DeepSeek-trained distilled model, which I forgot to mention.

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