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Latest stories covering distributed-systems, with summaries and links to related coverage.
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Chaosnet (1981)
tool
63 min read
Chaosnet is a decentralized local network for communication among computers located within one or two kilometers of each other. Developed in 1975 by the AI Laboratory at MIT, it was initially used as the internal communications medium for the Lisp Machine system.
TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
tool
7 min read
TorchTPU enables running PyTorch natively on Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), enhancing performance and hardware portability for large-scale machine learning models. It addresses the challenges of distributed systems by supporting clusters of up to 100,000 chips.
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
research
15 min read
Multi-agentic software development presents challenges similar to those found in distributed systems. New programming languages, including a choreographic language for multi-agent workflows, are being explored to address these coordination issues among large language models (LLMs).