Debating Low-Cost Mac Studio Clusters for Running 291B Models

A developer demonstrated a four-Mac Studio cluster running a 291B model over a Thunderbolt 5 RDMA ring, while Hugging Face's multimodalart noted that just two 512GB Mac Studio units could run it at an order of magnitude lower cost.

2026-08-28 ~ 2026-08-28 · 2 related posts

• Developer Runs 291B Model Locally on Four Mac Studios — eptwts · 2026-08-28
• Run it on 2x512GB Mac Studios for an order of magnitude less cost — multimodalart · 2026-08-28