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For those interested, one of Apple's research teams has published a research paper about Minions, a 'dynamic virtual GPU cloud' that uses idle GPUs.
From what I understand, which isn't much, there's the Minions server, which is linked to other Minions, likely via Thunderbolt. When a job comes through, the server passes it to the other computers, which process it and send the results back.
If there's a power outage or crash, the server passes it to another computer.
So an example would be a Mac mini getting a demanding task, and passing it off to a Mac Studio to handle, then getting the results.
From what I understand, which isn't much, there's the Minions server, which is linked to other Minions, likely via Thunderbolt. When a job comes through, the server passes it to the other computers, which process it and send the results back.
If there's a power outage or crash, the server passes it to another computer.
So an example would be a Mac mini getting a demanding task, and passing it off to a Mac Studio to handle, then getting the results.