It's not a novel idea, but its provable that someone can take this same concept and do something truly groundbreaking. I wonder if there's value in the idea that you can join a supercomputer network of MAC/Nvidia GPUs as a way of getting off cloud and into "our cloud". As long as you offer compute, you have credit into the system to be able to support your own workloads that can't be done on just your hardware. Need to address concerns about privacy, abuse, etc, but Apple's idea here has some merit if applied right.

Imagine if Apple made a GENERIC distributed compute framework to leverage idle computing power from Macs for distributed Rendering/Compiling/etc use cases. I'm sure Apple could convince Adobe and others to support this framework for their compute-intensive products and create a really interesting ecosystem for it.

Then universities and business could reduce their need for cloud and have a reason to put that spending towards higher end Macs...

Why is this a paper? Should've just been a blogpost. Maybe I don't understand academia

Darkbloom is already doing that today (darkbloom.ai)

Apple rediscovering HPC clusters, but without OS X Server to serve alongside it.

Sounds similar to Salad (salad.com), except for the differing hardware.

I built something very adjacent to this right before leaving Apple, same name, handed off to my team.

I’m very curious if that project evolved to this……..going to message a few friends now heh

This project sounds good.

What is it actually like?

Is this opt-in or opt-out?

If I can get paid for heating my home with LLM queries this winter, I'm all for it.