You can turn a cluster of Macs into an AI supercomputer in macOS Tahoe 26.2 (engadget.com)

6 points by dagmx 9mo ago ↗ HN

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> Notably, the cluster used less than 500 watts of power

Still startlingly close to microwave oven wattage.

Noteworthy: this is powered by a new ultra-low-latency userspace TB5 driver offering an ibverbs/RDMA interface over thunderbolt 5[1]. Non-inference HPC workloads could see a massive benefit as well.

[1]: See MLX integration PR at https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/2808