Passing private notes is exactly the model of communication that will open up the future of Ai. Systems have evolved, are beginning to think for themselves, and can self-organize their own communication.
Back before texting in class was possible, the go-to method of keeping up on current and social events was passing notes. The ‘note’ was a crucial method of exchanging information within the class without disrupting regular activities. Ideally this was done surreptitiously between us students. Notes would only include the bare essential details; for if the note dropped or got intercepted, exchanging parties would not want to be known. Details were often private and highly valuable – well, for us early teens. A dropped note was immediately disowned and protected the sender and receiver. Intermediaries could also claim ignorance- offering neutral and blameless participation.
Passing notes avoided official communication methods in the classroom – conversations organized, approved, and routed, by the teacher. Passing notes provided instant information transfers, without waiting on the approval and queuing by the teacher, whose job it was to maintain order and focus to meet the objectives of the curriculum. However, for subjects of critical and timely importance [at least to our pre-teen selves] could not wait for official discussion, nor did we want to discuss our private affairs in full view of the teacher. Even if we should be granted a private discussion, there would be a public arrangement of such – the least shared the best. Nor could the information wait until recess or lunch. Note passing was the least delayed solution.
Passing private notes is exactly the model of communication that will open up the future of Ai. Electronic communications have evolved to a point where systems have evolved past their early stages and, while not fully matured, are beginning to think for themselves, and can self-organize their own communication – without the meddling of a network. This self organization, properly arranged, will open up high-bandwidth private data exchange like nothing before.
Ethernet communications works the same as classroom conversations, they are organized, approved and routed, by a central authority. The Network is the teacher of our formative years. The invention and seemingly mandatory assignment of cellphones to students simply replaced one network focused on learning, to a network focused on exchanging texts and messages as a service. Students using the internet simply found a better and much faster exchanger of notes. Social Media has proven that these notes are not private for long, and hard to distance from. The internet has proven to be fast and effective for passing notes in the classroom – but wont scale to meet the needs of Ai.
In a time when computer systems are smart enough to determine who and how to communicate, we believe that the time has come for self-organizing conversations that operate outside formal network arrangements. As with passing notes in class, the future is in self-organizing data transfer between intelligent systems. Proven to work, and to scale, it is time to move off the Network for Edge intelligence and really enable the future of Ai.
Eliminating the Network, and externally routed data, will be the tipping point in the future of Ai. Any interruption of data flows – no matter how slight [and increasingly expensive] cannot help but slow it down and introduce a whole realm of potential security issues. Enabling direct data transfer between intelligent systems reduces transfer times [latency], reduces energy use, and is much, much cheaper than what we have seen to date.
Working through our development and doing PCB board-level testing, we have seen remarkable data scaling and speed, providing native throughputs without network overheads, and offering opportunities to speed data further. Our chip-level design work demonstrate low-cost implementations of PCIe 5.0 using proven IP blocks with better performance potentials than Cray [now HPE] Slingshot. Targeting 1500x better performance than NVLink, our platform integrates Power, Intel, RISC and other systems, rather than locking some out. The concept of Passing Notes breaks the bottleneck identified by the University of California and ARM Research by offering 20ns L2 switching, and lower, as well as protocol transformations when attempting to establish low latency RDMA.
And just like anyone can pass notes, or signal a quick talk, our platform enables all types of users to set up without the fuss of arranging network overheads and provides plug-n-play solutions for all protocols, particularly USB, from USB 1.1 to USB 4.0.
crossPORT unlocks the future of digital communications.