llama_backend_devices: List available backend devices
In llamaR: Interface for Large Language Models via 'llama.cpp'

llama_backend_devices

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List available backend devices

Description

Returns a data.frame of all compute devices (CPU, GPU, etc.) detected by the ggml backend. Use device names from this list in the devices parameter of llama_load_model.

Usage

llama_backend_devices()

Value

A data.frame with columns name, description, and type (one of "cpu", "gpu", "igpu", "accel").

Examples

# List available compute devices and pick GPU names for llama_load_model()
devs <- llama_backend_devices()
print(devs)
gpu_names <- devs$name[devs$type == "GPU"]

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