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- Homa is pitched in a linked video as a replacement for TCP in AI cluster networking, with the original paper hosted as USENIX ATC '21 (ousterhout.pdf).
- The HN post accumulated 67 points and 30 comments, and links out to an LWN article and a Register piece framed around the 'Stanford' angle on the same protocol.
Why it matters: The poster frames Homa as the 'end of TCP' for AI workloads — a provocative claim tied to a 2021 paper rather than a new deployment announcement, so the consensus question is whether hyperscalers will actually adopt a non-TCP fabric for the workloads that now dominate their traffic.
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