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Traditionally, TCP/IP protocols are lauded for their cleverness in facilitating communication across complex networks, including their robustness against packet losses common in lossy environments like Wi-Fi. However, as the number of GPUs in a cluster reaches tens of thousands, these older systems falter under the increasing volume of data traffic. In these scenarios, the performance bottlenecks become evident; known choices like InfiniBand struggle due to their high costs and limitations in scalability.
Tesla's strategy emerged from first principles thinking, posing the question of whether a fundamentally more efficient approach to data transmission was physically feasible, ultimately resulting in the breakthrough that is the Tesla Transport Protocol (TTP).