Researchers describe and demonstrate distributed inference techniques for running large language models across multiple servers or devices, including cache-aware routing and hardware-accelerated setups
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IBM Research describes a distributed inference framework that coordinates clusters of model servers to handle concurrent LLM requests more efficiently, including prefix-aware routing to increase cache reuse and reduce redundant computation. Apple ML Research reports benchmarks using MLX with RDMA-over-Thunderbolt on Mac Studio clusters for running and scaling local and distributed LLM inference.