Impact

Compute has become physical infrastructure. TALPs help the world get more compute with less waste.

Software is no longer constrained only by CPU speed. It is constrained by power density, cooling burden, infrastructure cost, and the unpredictability of execution at scale.

Core thesis

The next big gains come from making execution predictable.

When execution is unknown, systems overprovision. They consume more energy, create more heat, and force more infrastructure overhead than necessary. TALPs make execution measurable, predictable, and controllable.

Signals from the real world

The governing limits around computing have changed.

Performance still matters. But the context around performance is now shaped by power, thermal load, cooling capacity, deployment cost, and infrastructure footprint. That changes what software optimization needs to do.

Power density
Compute is no longer only a performance problem.

Power, cooling, and site constraints are now part of the software story. The cost of inefficient execution shows up physically, not just financially.

AI expansion
Workloads are getting larger, denser, and less forgiving.

AI systems amplify variability in execution, memory pressure, and infrastructure demand. Better hardware alone does not solve execution waste.

Infrastructure pressure
Overprovisioning has become the default tax.

When teams cannot predict how software will behave for a given input, they buy safety with extra cores, extra headroom, extra cooling, and extra spend.

Global applicability
This matters everywhere compute runs.

From cloud infrastructure to robotics, biotech, industrial systems, defense systems, and edge devices, efficient execution is becoming strategically important.

The root cause

Software still cannot explain itself well enough at runtime.

Organizations routinely operate without clear answers to the questions that determine infrastructure efficiency. That is why overprovisioning and best-effort execution have become normal.

Questions teams still struggle to answer
  • How long will this program take for this input?
  • Which execution pathway will activate?
  • How many processing elements are actually optimal?
  • What is the energy cost per result?

When those answers are unknown, systems compensate with extra infrastructure, extra safety margins, and extra waste.

What changed

Compute became infrastructure.

Once software output became foundational to data centers, industrial systems, autonomous systems, biotech pipelines, AI inference, and edge devices, inefficient execution stopped being a local software problem. It became a systems problem.

Power complexity

More cores do not automatically create better outcomes when overhead, synchronization, heat, and wasted execution rise faster than useful work.

Cooling reality

As thermal density rises, execution efficiency affects not just performance but cooling burden and infrastructure planning.

AI variability

Large AI workloads magnify the cost of unpredictable runtime behavior and poorly targeted parallelism.

Global scale

Compute is spreading across nearly every domain, which means software efficiency improvements compound far beyond a single workload.

What TALPs unlock

Make performance an optimized decision, not a guess.

TALPs matter because they change the economics of execution. They give systems a way to model behavior, choose better configurations, and reduce waste without waiting for new hardware to solve software inefficiency.

Predict time and memory before execution becomes expensive

TALPs make it possible to model runtime and resource behavior for a given program and valid input dataset instead of treating execution as something teams can only understand after the fact.

Turn more cores into the right cores

The goal is not simply adding parallelism. The goal is selecting the configuration that best meets latency, cost, or energy objectives for the workload at hand.

Reduce wasteful execution

Less wasted work means less sustained thermal load, less unnecessary energy use, and less infrastructure pressure for the same useful result.

Apply one software advantage across many domains

As more industries become compute industries, software execution efficiency becomes a cross-sector strategic capability rather than a niche optimization concern.

Impact is the why.

If software is now constrained by energy, thermal load, and infrastructure footprint as much as by raw hardware speed, then predictable execution becomes a foundational advantage. TALPs are a way to create that advantage in software.

Impact

The New Physics of Software

Software used to be constrained by CPU speed. Now its constrained by power density, cooling, and water.

When execution is unpredictable, systems overprovision, burn energy, and extend thermal load. The result is a world where compute is no longer just performanceits a resource footprint. TALPs (Time-Affecting Linear Pathways) make execution measurable, predictable, and controllableso we can do more work with less waste.

Signals from the real world

These are the external constraints shaping modern computing. Our thesis: the next big performance gains come from making execution predictablenot just adding hardware.

Data center electricity
~415 TWh (2024)
IEA estimates global data centers consumed about 415 TWh in 2024 (~1.5% of global electricity). With AI acceleration, electricity demand is forecast to more than double by 2030.
Source: IEA - Energy and AI
demand trend
Water & cooling
WUE: liters / kWh
Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) captures how much water is used per unit of energy. As power density rises, water becomes a binding constraint especially in water-stressed regions.
Source: EESI Data Centers & Water Consumption
constraint
Concrete example
1.3B gallons/year
One reported hyperscale facility consumed ~1.3 billion gallons of potable water in a yearillustrating why efficiency and predictable runtime matter at scale.
Source: NASUCA brief (compiled sources)
scale pressure
AI compute acceleration
~2x every ~6 months
Training compute for notable AI systems has accelerated dramaticallyturning power, cooling, and cost-per-result into first-order constraints.
Source: Our World in Data - training computation
compute ramp
Note: sparklines are visual trend cues. The specific numeric shapes are illustrative; the linked sources support the underlying claims.
What changed

Compute became infrastructure

Power complexity

Adding cores doesnt guarantee better outcomes. Energy, heat, and scheduling overhead can rise faster than useful work.

Water reality

Cooling isnt a footnote anymore. Water consumption becomes a regional limiter as thermal density increases.

AI variability

AI-scale workloads amplify variability and intensityexposing the cost of unknown execution paths and best-effort parallelism.

The root cause

Software cant predict itself at runtime

Weve been flying blind

  • How long will this program take for this input?
  • How many processing elements are actually optimal?
  • Which execution path will activate?
  • What is the energy cost per result?

When those answers are unknown, systems overprovision, overschedule, and overconsumeby design.

Predictable execution changes the economics

TALPs decompose software into execution pathways that can be measured, modeled, and predictedenabling systems to choose the right parallel configuration for each workload, rather than a one-size-fits-all guess.

What new physics means
Not marketing. A constraint shift: the governing limits are power, cooling, and waterso the winning software is the software that can predict and control execution.
What TALPs unlock

Make performance an optimized decision

Predict time & memory

TALPs are designed to predict runtime and resource needs for a given program and valid input dataset.

Right-size parallelism

Convert more cores into right cores, selecting the best configuration to meet latency, cost, or energy targets.

Reduce wasteful execution

Shorten sustained thermal load by minimizing wasted cycleslowering energy per result and easing cooling (and water) pressure.

From MPTs TALP summary

TALPs enable prediction of processing time and memory needs for a given program and input datasetand from that, control of system behavior to meet time or memory goals while minimizing energy use and footprint.

(See internal executive summary.)

Next

Impact is the why. Technology and Solutions are the how.

If compute is now constrained by power and water, the next frontier is predictable execution. TALPs provide the model. Our platform and workflows make it deployable.