John Siracusa

So this is the app that's actually doing the work.

Oh, my mistake.

No wonder we were confused.

My apologies.

That's very cool.

And I'm glad you provided a screenshot, which we'll put a link to that in the show notes.

Aaron Dibner wrote, given that Marco now has a 48 Mac mini cluster, while they each only have 16 gigs of RAM, it is possible to spread LLMs over multiple Macs these days.

We've all probably seen the videos of four Mac studios clustered over Thunderbolt, but you can also do it over ethernet just a bit slower.

And so I presume, John, you put in a link in the show notes to a Beowulf cluster.

Can you explain that, please?

John, I would be remiss not to mention System X. Do you remember this?

This is a zillion, I believe it was XSERVs all networked together to be a very impressive.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Is that considered a Beowulf cluster in your mind?

Coming all the way back around to Aaron Dibner, who started this whole conversation, Aaron writes, this Apple Insider article is a bit outdated, but the idea is there.

It's totally doable for a setup of your kind.

And this was, I believe, pre the thing where you can chain them over Thunderbolt.

I think this was done via Ethernet, if I'm not mistaken.

But you can look and we'll put a link in the show notes.