Minions: A Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud on Idle Apple Silicon

A paper presents Minions, a system aggregating idle Apple Silicon GPUs across macOS devices into a distributed virtual GPU cloud for large-scale inference, offering added capacity, fault tolerance and elasticity without new GPU purchases.

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