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The Symmetra Articles

How a GPU becomes a web server, what we measured pushing it to its limits, and the ideas behind running your API on a Turing machine.

Deep Dive · Flagship
Running Real APIs on Turing Machines
Symmetra runs your TypeScript on a GPU — literally, as thousands of Turing machines on a tape. What that means from first principles, an animated Rule 110 you can play with, and the honest numbers from pushing 7 publicly-known universal machines to their limits.
12 min read · Introduction Read →
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Guide · Migration
From Node.js to Symmetra
Your Express app, rewritten in sym — every concept side by side. The same server in Node and on the GPU, how you run it, the real API for databases and cache and crypto, and an honest list of what doesn't work yet.
10 min read · Guide Read →
Coming soon
Breaking the CPU Wall: GPUDirect Networking
How we plan to let the network card write straight into GPU memory — removing the CPU from the request hot path entirely.
In progress