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Metal Sandbox squeezes idle GPUs

Research examines goal encoding in large language models, while a separate Metal Sandbox approach is presented to speed up GPU coding agents on Apple Silicon.

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šŸ”„ What happened Researchers from SJTU and Microsoft released "Metal Sandbox," open-source infrastructure that runs GPU coding agents in isolated workspaces across networked Mac minis and schedules their commands across nodes. šŸ’” Why it matters On four M4 Mac minis, command throughput jumps 1.68x to 2.05x; with 16 sessions per node, estimated sustained throughput hits 2.14x. GPUs previously sat idle between model calls and compilation — the scheduler reclaims exactly that dead time. ⚔ Our take Apple Silicon just became a real agent cluster — not via new chips, but via smarter scheduling. If you run local inference, clone this repo today.
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