Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
To solve the problem, he's promoting a new protocol called Homa. “TCP, for all the amazing things it has done, is not a good match for datacenters,” said John Ousterhout, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, in a recent talk at the AI Engineer World’s Fair.Shedding TCP sounds like an immense task, given the global reliance on the protocol. But adding Homa into a network is fairly simple, Ousterhout told The Register.
- ▪To solve the problem, he's promoting a new protocol called Homa.
- ▪“TCP, for all the amazing things it has done, is not a good match for datacenters,” said John Ousterhout, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, in a recent talk at the AI Engineer World’s Fair.Shedding TCP sounds
- ▪But adding Homa into a network is fairly simple, Ousterhout told The Register.
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