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New Mac Studio Can Be Clustered Together for Faster AI Performance

Apple announced that multiple new Mac Studio units with the M5 Ultra chip can be clustered over Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA to create a shared memory pool for running larger AI models. Clustering four systems delivers 3x faster AI inference than a single system, enabling the largest frontier-class open-weight models.

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Multiple new Mac Studio units can be clustered together over Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA (remote direct memory access), creating a shared memory pool for running larger AI models.

If four Mac Studio systems are clustered together, Apple says they can deliver 3x faster AI inference than running the same task on a single system, with the shared memory pool helping to load the largest and most demanding frontier-class open-weight models available today. This article, "New Mac Studio Can Be Clustered Together for Faster AI Performance" first appeared on MacRumors.com

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