[TacticalCoder]

> Though only 5gig Ethernet? Can’t they do usb-c / thunderbolt 40 Gb/s connections like Macs?

Does the network speed matter that much when TFA talks about outputting a few tens of tokens per second? Ain't 5 Gbit/s plenty for that? (I understand the need to load the model but that'd be local already right?)

[elcritch]

Running inference requires sharing intermediate matrix results between nodes. Faster networking speeds that up.

[wokkel]

I read (but cannot find this anymore) that the information sent from layer to layer is minimal. The actual matrix work happens within a layer. They are not doing matrix multiplication over the netwerk (that would be insane latency wise).