Image: reddit.com · I built a way to use my desktop's RTX 3060 from my Linux laptop over Wi-Fi (Rust + Vulkan, 12-hour hackathon project)
Using a desktop RTX 3060 from a Linux laptop over Wi-Fi
A Rust Vulkan driver lets a Linux laptop use another PC's GPU over the network, built in a 12-hour hackathon with Claude Code.
Credits
- Reddit poster _rover_dev Source ↗
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The full story
gpu-mesh is a Rust Vulkan driver plus a small mesh app, built in a 12-hour hackathon with Claude Code. The laptop sees the desktop's RTX 3060 as a normal Vulkan device listed as (Remote), while a replay server on the PC runs the commands on the real GPU. It uses batched commands, shadow memory with dirty-chunk tracking and zstd compression over a binary protocol.
The poster describes it as early and rough. The app also finds GPUs on the network and starts a llama.cpp server on the machine with the GPU. It is MIT licensed.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built a way to use my desktop's RTX 3060 from my Linux laptop over Wi-Fi (Rust + Vulkan, 12-hour hReddit poster: _rover_devPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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