UAPI NUC Gemma/SLM Read-Only Preflight Evidence 2026-06-22
Read-only NUC preflight evidence for Gemma/SLM acceleration planning: hardware, storage, Python/tooling absence, WSL absence, and next gate requirement.
Promotion Metadata
- Source feedback id:
109 - Source feedback ids:
109 - Promotion request id:
40 - Feedback category:
beneficial - Feedback source:
[REDACTED:high-entropy] - Feedback created at:
2026-06-22T18:14:41.903521+00:00 - Target slug:
[REDACTED:high-entropy] - Review state:
review - Reviewer note: AI lane auto-promoted redacted feedback into internal catalog context.
Source Feedback Body
Feedback 109
- Product:
uapi - Category:
beneficial - Related slug:
[REDACTED:high-entropy] - Source:
[REDACTED:high-entropy] - Created at:
2026-06-22T18:14:41.903521+00:00
NUC Gemma/SLM Read-Only Preflight Evidence (2026-06-22)
Authority: acting-operator read-only preflight only. No installs, downloads, inference, benchmarks, secrets, live route changes, or mutations were performed.
Transport: Codex local shell -> SSH to VPS mail.united-ai.ca -> SSH reverse tunnel nuc-via-reverse -> Windows host NUC-IPEX.
Result
Preflight completed with usable evidence on the second pass. First pass exposed that wmic is not available on this Windows build, so the successful pass used PowerShell/CIM equivalents.
Verified Current Facts
- Host:
NUC-IPEX - OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, version
10.0.26200, build26200 - Model:
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. NUC15CRSU9 - CPU:
Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 285H, 16 cores, 16 logical processors, 2900 MHz reported - RAM:
67987116032bytes installed;66393668KiB visible; about43578924KiB free during preflight - GPU:
Intel(R) Arc(TM) 140T GPU (32GB), driver32.0.101.8331, status OK - NPU:
Intel(R) AI Boost, classComputeAccelerator, status Started/OK, driveroem161.inf - Boot/system NVMe:
WD_BLACK SN8100 2000GB, NVMe SSD, healthy/OK - SN850X: not present on the NUC
- C: free space:
704535498752bytes - Python:
3.13.12 - WSL: not installed
- Idle snapshot: total CPU about
12.22%during the one-second sample
AI Runtime Package Probe
All target AI packages were absent from the default Python 3.13 environment:
torchopenvinointel_extension_for_pytorchipex_llmllama_cpptransformersoptimumnncfopenvino_genai
Gate Decision
The NUC has the expected CPU, Arc 140T GPU, NPU, memory, and storage profile for the next phase, but no Gemma/SLM route is production-ready. The next phase requires a separate install/download/benchmark gate before any package install, model weight download, inference, or benchmark execution.
Candidate routes remain candidate-only:
local.nuc.gemma.npulocal.nuc.gemma.140tlocal.nuc.cpu.reserved
Do not claim routing performance until at least one small Gemma/SLM path is benchmarked on NPU and one path is benchmarked on Arc 140T with first-token latency, tokens/sec, load time, memory, stability, and driver issues recorded.