March 23, 2026 · 13 min read NVIDIA DGX Spark — first boot and local LLM inference Unboxing, OTA update, NVIDIA NIM setup and benchmarking Llama 3.1 8B and Qwen3 32B on DGX Spark. Real-world experience including the problems I hit along the way. #nvidia #dgx-spark #linux #homelab #ai #nim