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Apple research: Minions turns idle Mac Apple Silicon GPUs into a distributed ML inference cloud

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Apple ML researchers describe Minions, an internal system that pools idle macOS Apple Silicon GPUs for batch inference with fault tolerance and pull-based task execution. It targets teams short on centralized GPUs; distributed training is listed as future work. The paper is on Apple's Machine Learning Research site and arXiv.

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