Cost and speed
Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Our short summary of Apple’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Teams needed more GPU power for inference but buying new hardware was expensive and slow.
Solution
Created Minions, a system that gathers idle Apple Silicon GPUs from Macs, schedules inference jobs across them, and handles failures to boost compute capacity.
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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