[bee_rider]

Do they need fast storage, in this application? Their OS could be on some old SATA drive or whatever. The whole goal is to get them on a fast network together; the models could be stored on some network filesystem as well, right?

[pests]

It's more than just the model weights. During inference there would be a lot of cross-talk as each node broadcasts its results and gathers up what it needs from the others for the next step.