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railka • today at 1:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Minions is an internal enterprise system already in use at Apple. It pools idle Mac GPUs into a shared compute cluster for ML inference.

There is no distributed execution of a single LLM across multiple GPUs using tensor parallelism here. Instead, it relies on task-level parallelism-breaking down a large workload into independent subtasks that run across separate machines. For example, generating embeddings for a million documents.


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alt227 • today at 1:53 PM

So basically works the same way as Folding@Home?

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