diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 68611914b7..468f0a432c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -856,9 +856,8 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 20
     env:
       REMOTE: 1
-      REMOTEDEV: 'AMD'
+      HOST: 127.0.0.1:6667*6,127.0.0.1:6668*6
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
-      MOCKGPU: 1
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -869,6 +868,21 @@ jobs:
           deps: testing_minimal
           amd: 'true'
           llvm: 'true'
+      - name: Start remote server
+        run: |
+          start_server() {
+            systemd-run --user \
+              --unit="$1" \
+              --setenv=REMOTEDEV=AMD \
+              --setenv=MOCKGPU=1 \
+              --setenv=PYTHONPATH=. \
+              --setenv=PORT="$2" \
+              --working-directory="$(pwd)" \
+              python tinygrad/runtime/ops_remote.py
+          }
+
+          start_server "remote-server-1" 6667
+          start_server "remote-server-2" 6668
       - name: Check Device.DEFAULT and print some source
         run: |
           python -c "from tinygrad import Device; assert Device.DEFAULT == 'REMOTE', Device.DEFAULT"
@@ -876,7 +890,12 @@ jobs:
           DEBUG=4 python3 test/test_tiny.py TestTiny.test_plus
       - name: Run REMOTE=1 Test
         run: |
-          python3 -m pytest test/test_tiny.py test/test_jit.py test/test_subbuffer.py test/test_graph.py test/test_multitensor.py test/test_tensor_variable.py
+          python3 -m pytest test/test_tiny.py test/test_jit.py test/test_subbuffer.py test/test_graph.py test/test_multitensor.py test/test_remote.py test/test_tensor_variable.py
+      - name: Show remote server logs
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          journalctl --user -u remote-server-1 --no-pager
+          journalctl --user -u remote-server-2 --no-pager
 
   osxtests:
     strategy:
diff --git a/test/test_remote.py b/test/test_remote.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4e5ed5307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_remote.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import numpy as np, unittest, string
+from hypothesis import given, strategies as st
+from tinygrad import Device, Tensor, TinyJit
+from tinygrad.runtime.ops_remote import RemoteDevice, parse_hosts
+from tinygrad.helpers import LazySeq, all_same
+
+def multihost_env(devices):
+  def same_hosts(devices): return all_same([h for h,_ in devices])
+  return isinstance(devices, list) and len(devices) >= 12 and not same_hosts(devices[0:12]) and same_hosts(devices[0:6]) and same_hosts(devices[6:12])
+
+@unittest.skipUnless(Device.DEFAULT == "REMOTE" and multihost_env(RemoteDevice.devices), "Requires special environment")
+class TestRemoteMultiHost(unittest.TestCase):
+  def test_mutlihost_transfer(self):
+    a = Tensor.arange(0, 16, device='REMOTE:0').contiguous().realize()
+    b = a.to('REMOTE:6').contiguous().realize()
+    np.testing.assert_equal(b.numpy(), np.arange(0, 16))
+
+  # NOTE: remote graph currently throws GraphException on host mismatch, this just checks that it is being handled, not that jit graph is being used
+  def test_multihost_matmul_jit(self):
+    @TinyJit
+    def do(a:Tensor, b:Tensor): return (a @ b).contiguous().realize()
+    ds = ('REMOTE:0', 'REMOTE:1', 'REMOTE:6', 'REMOTE:7')
+    for _ in range(3):
+      na, nb = np.random.rand(128, 128).astype(np.float32), np.random.rand(128, 128).astype(np.float32)
+      a, b = Tensor(na).shard(ds, 0).contiguous().realize(), Tensor(nb).shard(ds, 0).contiguous().realize()
+      nc = na @ nb
+      c = do(a, b)
+      np.testing.assert_allclose(nc, c.numpy(), rtol=3e-2, atol=1e-4) # tolerances from extra/gemm/simple_matmul.py
+
+class TestParseHosts(unittest.TestCase):
+  def assert_seq(self, result:LazySeq, host:str):
+    self.assertIsInstance(result, LazySeq)
+    for i in [0, 1, 5, 10]: self.assertEqual(result[i], (host, i))
+
+  @given(st.sampled_from(["", "localhost", "192.168.1.1:8080", "host"]))
+  def test_single_host_no_count(self, host:str):
+    self.assert_seq(parse_hosts(host), host)
+
+  @given(host=st.sampled_from(["localhost", "host", "192.168.1.1:8080"]), count=st.integers(0, 10))
+  def test_single_host_with_count(self, host:str, count:int):
+    self.assertEqual(parse_hosts(f"{host}*{count}"), [(host, i) for i in range(count)])
+
+  def test_multiple_hosts_with_counts_simple(self):
+    self.assertEqual(parse_hosts("host1*2,host2*3"), [("host1", i) for i in range(2)] + [("host2", i) for i in range(3)])
+
+  @given(st.lists(st.tuples(st.text(alphabet=string.ascii_letters + string.digits + ".-:"), st.integers(1, 16)), min_size=1))
+  def test_multiple_hosts_with_counts_sampled(self, host_count_pairs):
+    hosts_str = ",".join(f"{host}*{count}" for host, count in host_count_pairs)
+    expected = [(host, i) for host, count in host_count_pairs for i in range(count)]
+    self.assertEqual(parse_hosts(hosts_str), expected)
+
+  @given(st.sampled_from(["host1*2,host2", "a*1,b", "x*3,y*2,z"]))
+  def test_mixed_hosts_fails(self, hosts):
+    with self.assertRaises(AssertionError): parse_hosts(hosts)
+
+  @given(st.sampled_from(["host*abc", "test*xyz", "a*1.5"]))
+  def test_invalid_count_fails(self, hosts):
+    with self.assertRaises(ValueError): parse_hosts(hosts)
+
+  @given(st.sampled_from(["host*2*3", "a*1*2*3", "test*x*y"]))
+  def test_multiple_asterisks_fails(self, hosts):
+    with self.assertRaises(ValueError): parse_hosts(hosts)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  unittest.main()
diff --git a/tinygrad/helpers.py b/tinygrad/helpers.py
index 1c2f7ff3f8..57743e76eb 100644
--- a/tinygrad/helpers.py
+++ b/tinygrad/helpers.py
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ def get_child(obj, key):
 def word_wrap(x, wrap=80): return x if len(x) <= wrap or '\n' in x[0:wrap] else (x[0:wrap] + "\n" + word_wrap(x[wrap:], wrap))
 def pluralize(st:str, cnt:int): return f"{cnt} {st}"+('' if cnt == 1 else 's')
 
+class LazySeq(Generic[T]): # NOTE: Mapping requires __iter__ and __len__, Sequence requires supporting __len__ and slicing in __getitem__
+  def __init__(self, gen:Callable[[int], T]): self.gen = gen
+  def __getitem__(self, idx:int) -> T: return self.gen(idx)
+
 # for length N coefficients `p`, returns p[0] * x**(N-1) + p[1] * x**(N-2) + ... + p[-2] * x + p[-1]
 def polyN(x:T, p:list[float]) -> T: return functools.reduce(lambda acc,c: acc*x+c, p, 0.0)  # type: ignore
 
diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/graph/remote.py b/tinygrad/runtime/graph/remote.py
index 04c6dbdbc9..f086dc1ffc 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/graph/remote.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/graph/remote.py
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ class RemoteGraph(GraphRunner):
     self.devices[0].q(GraphAlloc(self.graph_num, tuple(_process_ji(ji) for ji in jit_cache), self.map_rawbufs(rawbufs), var_vals))
 
   def __del__(self):
-    self.devices[0].q(GraphFree(self.graph_num))
+    # This can happen if `GraphException` is thrown at the very start
+    if hasattr(self, "graph_num"): self.devices[0].q(GraphFree(self.graph_num))
 
   def map_rawbufs(self, rawbufs:list[Buffer]):
     return tuple((cast(RemoteDevice, Device[rawbufs[i].device]).session, rawbufs[i]._buf) for i in self.iids)
diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_remote.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_remote.py
index 991da324c6..18d93672ab 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_remote.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_remote.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import multiprocessing, functools, itertools, asyncio, http, http.client, hashli
 from tinygrad.renderer import Renderer, ProgramSpec
 from tinygrad.dtype import DTYPES_DICT, dtypes
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, Variable, sint
-from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, DEBUG, fromimport, unwrap, Timing
+from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, DEBUG, fromimport, unwrap, LazySeq, Timing
 from tinygrad.engine.jit import GraphRunner, MultiGraphRunner, ExecItem, graph_class
 from tinygrad.engine.realize import CompiledRunner, BufferXfer
 from tinygrad.device import Compiled, Buffer, Allocator, Compiler, Device, BufferSpec
@@ -301,12 +301,22 @@ class RemoteConnection:
     self.req = BatchRequest()
     return ret
 
-class RemoteDevice(Compiled):
-  def __init__(self, device:str):
-    self.conn: RemoteConnection = RemoteConnection(getenv("HOST", "") or RemoteDevice.local_server())
+def parse_hosts(hs:str) -> list[tuple[str, int]]|LazySeq[tuple[str, int]]:
+  hosts = [(unwrap(h), int(c) if c is not None else c) for h,c in ((h.split("*", maxsplit=1)+[None,])[:2] for h in hs.split(","))]
+  if len(hosts) == 1 and hosts[0][1] is None: return LazySeq(lambda idx: (hosts[0][0], idx))
+  return [(h, i) for h,c in hosts for i in range(unwrap(c))]
 
-    # state for the connection
-    self.session = (binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(0x10)).decode(), int(device.split(":")[1]) if ":" in device else 0)
+class RemoteDevice(Compiled):
+  devices = parse_hosts(getenv("HOST", ""))
+
+  def __init__(self, device:str):
+    host, idx = RemoteDevice.devices[int(device.split(":")[1]) if ":" in device else 0]
+
+    # connection is shared between sessions on the same host
+    self.conn: RemoteConnection = RemoteConnection(host or RemoteDevice.local_server())
+
+    # state for the session
+    self.session = (binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(0x10)).decode(), idx)
     self.buffer_num: Iterator[int] = itertools.count(0)
     self.graph_num: Iterator[int] = itertools.count(0)