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by bilbo0s 4753 days ago
Hmm...

If these things are Thunderbolt 2 devices... it really does open up some different possibilities for you.

I know that everyone doesn't need it... but connecting a few of these together via TB 2 would be kind of interesting for me. I mean being able to see one machine with even as few as 24 or 36 cores.

A Xeon here a GPU there... pretty soon you're talking about real capability. Again, it's not for everyone... but there are a lot of areas where you get some real benefits.

Thinking about buying 4 and just writing the software myself if it's not supported. But I'm pretty sure it probably is. Probably just tcp/ip though :(

Oh well... that'd be enough.

Anyway... not many other devices you can do things like that with and still keep good bandwidth between devices. It is thinking a bit outside the box. I can't think of another machine that would let me conveniently do that, and still take up 1/2 the volume of the current mac pro???

Can you???

(Not snark. Genuinely interested. I'm in the market, and would be willing to write the connecting software myself).