Artificial intelligence reaches us through a screen, but its work depends on physical systems: processors, memory, networks, electricity and cooling. Understanding those systems helps us see where the real opportunities and constraints lie. This collection examines AI infrastructure, useful computing performance and the operating decisions that shape cost and reliability. We explore how workloads are scheduled, how failures interrupt progress and why a higher utilisation figure does not automatically mean a better result. We also study the tools already available, so that a new idea earns its place through evidence. For readers, builders and strategic partners, the purpose is practical understanding: what the system does, what limits it and what could make it more useful.
01Explainer2 min read
Terafab links logic, memory and packaging in one proposed manufacturing system. We examine the potential feedback advantages, the evidence that would establish progress, and the smaller research opportunities an independent team can investigate.
AI & ComputeRobotics & Industry
02Explainer2 min read
The Matrioshka brain imagines layers of computing around a star. Its enduring lesson is that information processing has physical limits; nesting alone does not establish superior efficiency, intelligence or feasibility.
Civilisation HorizonsAI & Compute
03Research note2 min read
GalaxyLink’s first research direction asks how flexible computing work behaves under changing power constraints. It is a proposed route to learning, with customer demand and commercial advantage still to be established.
GalaxyLink ResearchSpace Infrastructure
04GalaxyLink experiment2 min read
Our first synthetic comparison did not produce an optimisation win. It showed how restart effort and missed deadlines can undermine an apparently attractive scheduling rule.
GalaxyLink ResearchAI & Compute
05Research note2 min read
Our starter model preserves completed work at slot boundaries but charges a restart delay after interruption. Understanding that assumption is essential to interpreting its results.
GalaxyLink ResearchAI & Compute
06Perspective2 min read
A compelling vision opens a conversation. This framework sets out the evidence I want GalaxyLink to build before claiming commercial or strategic value.
GalaxyLink ResearchCivilisation Horizons
07Perspective2 min read
A useful library helps readers distinguish evidence, interpretation and ambition. This founder’s note explains the editorial standards we are designing into GalaxyLink.
GalaxyLink ResearchAI & Compute
- Artificial intelligence
- A broad field concerned with computer systems performing tasks such as recognising patterns, generating content, making predictions or planning actions. The term covers many different methods and does not itself establish human-like understanding.
- AI inference
- Using a trained model to produce an output from an input—for example, answering a question or classifying an image. Its computing requirements depend on the model, workload and operating conditions.
- GPU
- A graphics processing unit: a processor designed to perform many operations in parallel. GPUs are used in graphics and many AI and scientific workloads, although suitability depends on the task and software.
- High-performance computing
- The use of substantial computing resources, often coordinated across many processors or machines, to solve demanding problems. Workloads can include scientific simulation, engineering analysis and large-scale data processing.
- Data centre
- A facility housing computing, storage and networking equipment, together with supporting power, cooling, security and operating systems. Its capability depends on the whole installation rather than its processors alone.
- Power budget
- The amount of power a system is permitted or able to use under specified conditions. A computing site may need to allocate that limit among processors, cooling, networking and other equipment.
- Workload scheduling
- Deciding when and where computing jobs run. A scheduler may consider resources, priorities, deadlines and other constraints. A policy that improves one metric can worsen another, so the objective must be explicit.
- Checkpoint
- A saved state from which a computation can potentially resume. Creating and restoring checkpoints takes resources, and a checkpoint is useful only if the application and operating environment support reliable recovery.