Apple's Minions turns idle Macs into a distributed GPU cloud
Apple's Minions: A virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon Macs
Apple researchers present Minions, a system that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs across macOS devices into a virtual cloud for large-scale ML inference. It offers flexible task execution and fault tolerance without new hardware, turning underused Macs into a practical alternative when centralized GPU resources are constrained.
Our experience shows that idle macOS devices can be transformed into a practical distributed GPU inference platform in environments where centralized GPU resources are constrained.