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> Dealing with RDMA aware networking is far beyond the ability of typical web developers. Homa is designed for traffic inside a DC, same as RDMA or Infiniband.
by ergl 5y ago
> Dealing with RDMA aware networking is far beyond the ability of typical web developers.
Homa is designed for traffic inside a DC, same as RDMA or Infiniband. I don't think anyone is proposing to use it for normal web traffic.
- eternalban 5y agoWhich partly (besides the Iranians on the Homa team) explains the name of the protocol. Homa is the Persian ~phoenix, a mythical bird that never touches the ground and is always hovering above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homa_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homa_(mythology)
- touisteur 5y agoEven inside DCs I thought everything was Web services upon Web services.