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Re:macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunde... by wmf on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:50PM (#46251208)
That's how Groq works. A cluster of LPUv2s would probably be faster and cheaper than an Infiniband cluster of Epycs.
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Re:macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunde... by fooblaster on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:36PM (#46252020)
what is an lpuv2
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Re:macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunde... by wmf on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:51PM (#46252088)
The chip that Groq makes.
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Re:macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunde... by dpe82 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:33AM (#46253297)
Yeah I'm familiar; I was hoping I could do something related on previous generation commodity(ish) hardware. It didn't work but I learned a ton.
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