TCP, the data transport protocol upon which pretty much the entire web and most of cloud computing is built, is ill-suited for emerging AI workloads, a retired Stanford University professor argues. 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. Compile Homa from its GitHub source, then install…
1 Oct 2026 · The Register
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