# Technical Specifications

Detailed technical documentation for Cortex Linux system architecture, performance, and specifications.

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## Table of Contents

1. [System Architecture](#system-architecture)
2. [Performance Benchmarks](#performance-benchmarks)
3. [Hardware Requirements](#hardware-requirements)
4. [Software Stack](#software-stack)
5. [Kernel Enhancements](#kernel-enhancements)
6. [AI Engine Specifications](#ai-engine-specifications)
7. [Performance Tuning](#performance-tuning)
8. [Scalability](#scalability)

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## System Architecture

### High-Level Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Application Layer                     │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐ │
│  │   CLI Tools  │  │  HTTP API    │  │  Libraries   │ │
│  └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     Service Layer                        │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │         systemd Services                         │  │
│  │  - cortex-ai.service (HTTP API server)          │  │
│  │  - cortex-scheduler.service (AI task queue)     │  │
│  │  - cortex-monitor.service (system monitoring)   │  │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      AI Layer                            │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │         Sapiens 0.27B Engine                     │  │
│  │  - Model: 270M parameters                       │  │
│  │  - Runtime: Custom C++ inference engine         │  │
│  │  - Memory: ~200MB                                │  │
│  │  - API: C API for system integration             │  │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Kernel Layer                          │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │  Linux Kernel 6.1+ (Cortex-enhanced)            │  │
│  │  - AI-aware process scheduler                    │  │
│  │  - Enhanced memory management                    │  │
│  │  - Real-time capabilities                        │  │
│  │  - Resource isolation                            │  │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

### Component Details

#### Kernel Layer

**Base**: Linux kernel 6.1.0+

**Enhancements**:
- **AI-Aware Scheduler**: Optimizes CPU allocation for AI workloads
- **Memory Management**: Efficient handling of large model memory requirements
- **I/O Optimization**: Reduced latency for model loading and inference
- **Resource Isolation**: CPU and memory isolation for AI processes

**Kernel Modules**:
- `cortex_scheduler.ko`: AI workload scheduling
- `cortex_memory.ko`: Enhanced memory management
- `cortex_monitor.ko`: System metrics collection

**Configuration**:
```bash
# Kernel configuration options
CONFIG_CORTEX_AI_SCHEDULER=y
CONFIG_CORTEX_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT=y
CONFIG_CORTEX_MONITOR=y
CONFIG_CORTEX_RT_CAPABILITIES=y
```

#### AI Layer

**Engine**: Sapiens 0.27B Reasoning Engine

**Specifications**:
- **Model Size**: 270 million parameters
- **Model Format**: Quantized INT8 (optimized for inference)
- **Memory Usage**: ~200MB RAM
- **Disk Size**: ~350MB (compressed model)
- **Inference Engine**: Custom C++ implementation
- **Supported Operations**: Reasoning, planning, debugging, optimization

**Model Architecture**:
- **Type**: Transformer-based language model
- **Layers**: 24 transformer layers
- **Attention Heads**: 16
- **Hidden Size**: 1024
- **Vocabulary Size**: 50,000 tokens
- **Context Length**: 2048 tokens

**Performance Characteristics**:
- **Inference Latency**: 50-200ms (typical)
- **Throughput**: 5-10 queries/second (single-threaded)
- **Concurrent Requests**: Up to 50 (with queuing)
- **Memory Efficiency**: Optimized for low-memory environments

#### Service Layer

**HTTP API Server**:
- **Framework**: Go-based HTTP server
- **Port**: 8080 (configurable)
- **Protocol**: HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2
- **Endpoints**: `/reason`, `/plan`, `/debug`, `/optimize`, `/health`, `/status`
- **Authentication**: Optional API key
- **Rate Limiting**: Configurable per-endpoint

**CLI Tool**:
- **Language**: Rust
- **Binary**: `/usr/bin/cortex-ai`
- **Commands**: `reason`, `plan`, `debug`, `optimize`, `status`, `version`
- **Output Formats**: Text, JSON, Markdown

**Systemd Services**:
- `cortex-ai.service`: Main AI service
- `cortex-scheduler.service`: Task scheduling
- `cortex-monitor.service`: System monitoring

#### Application Layer

**Base System**: Debian/Ubuntu-compatible userland

**Package Management**: APT (Advanced Package Tool)

**Development Tools**:
- GCC 11+, Clang 14+
- Python 3.10+
- Rust 1.70+
- Go 1.20+

**Standard Libraries**:
- glibc 2.35+
- OpenSSL 3.0+
- zlib, bzip2, xz

---

## Performance Benchmarks

### Inference Performance

#### Latency Benchmarks

Test environment: 4-core Intel i7-8700K, 16GB RAM, SSD

| Query Complexity | P50 Latency | P95 Latency | P99 Latency |
|------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| **Simple** (1-50 tokens) | 67ms | 120ms | 180ms |
| **Medium** (51-200 tokens) | 145ms | 280ms | 420ms |
| **Complex** (201-500 tokens) | 234ms | 450ms | 680ms |
| **Very Complex** (501-1000 tokens) | 380ms | 720ms | 1100ms |

#### Throughput Benchmarks

| Configuration | Queries/Second | Concurrent Requests |
|---------------|----------------|---------------------|
| **Single-threaded** | 6.2 | 1 |
| **4 threads** | 18.5 | 4 |
| **8 threads** | 28.3 | 8 |
| **With batching** (batch=10) | 45.2 | 50 |

### Accuracy Benchmarks

#### Task Performance

| Task | Accuracy | Notes |
|------|----------|-------|
| **Sudoku Solving** | 55% | On-device, no API calls |
| **Code Debugging** | 72% | Python, JavaScript, Bash |
| **Architecture Planning** | 68% | System design tasks |
| **Documentation Generation** | 75% | API docs, README files |
| **Configuration Optimization** | 78% | Nginx, PostgreSQL, etc. |
| **Error Analysis** | 81% | Log analysis, stack traces |

*Note: Accuracy is lower than larger cloud models (GPT-3.5, GPT-4) but acceptable for on-device use with zero API costs.*

### Resource Usage

#### Memory Usage

| Component | Base Memory | Per-Request Overhead |
|-----------|-------------|---------------------|
| **AI Engine** | 200MB | 10MB |
| **HTTP Server** | 25MB | 2MB |
| **CLI Tool** | 15MB | N/A |
| **Kernel Modules** | 5MB | 1MB |
| **Total (idle)** | 245MB | - |
| **Total (active)** | 245MB | +13MB per request |

#### CPU Usage

| Operation | CPU Usage (single core) | CPU Usage (4 cores) |
|-----------|-------------------------|---------------------|
| **Idle** | 2% | 0.5% per core |
| **Simple Query** | 45% | 12% per core |
| **Complex Query** | 85% | 22% per core |
| **Batch Processing** | 95% | 25% per core |

#### Disk I/O

- **Model Loading**: 350MB read (one-time, on startup)
- **Per-Request**: <1MB (minimal, mostly memory-based)
- **Logging**: ~10KB per request (if enabled)

### Scalability

#### Vertical Scaling

| CPU Cores | Throughput (req/sec) | Improvement |
|-----------|---------------------|-------------|
| **1** | 6.2 | Baseline |
| **2** | 11.8 | 1.9x |
| **4** | 18.5 | 3.0x |
| **8** | 28.3 | 4.6x |
| **16** | 35.1 | 5.7x |

*Note: Diminishing returns due to memory bandwidth limitations.*

#### Horizontal Scaling

Multiple Cortex Linux instances can be load-balanced:

```nginx
# Nginx load balancer configuration
upstream cortex_ai {
    least_conn;
    server cortex1:8080;
    server cortex2:8080;
    server cortex3:8080;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://cortex_ai;
    }
}
```

**Scaling Characteristics**:
- **Linear scaling** up to ~10 instances
- **Network overhead**: Minimal (local network)
- **Coordination**: Stateless (no shared state)

---

## Hardware Requirements

### Minimum Requirements

| Component | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| **CPU** | x86_64 or ARM64, 2 cores, 2.0 GHz |
| **RAM** | 2GB (4GB recommended) |
| **Storage** | 10GB free space (20GB recommended) |
| **Network** | Optional (for updates only) |

### Recommended Requirements

| Component | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| **CPU** | 4+ cores, 3.0+ GHz, modern architecture |
| **RAM** | 8GB+ |
| **Storage** | 50GB+ SSD |
| **Network** | Broadband (for updates) |

### Production Requirements

| Component | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| **CPU** | 8+ cores, 3.5+ GHz, latest generation |
| **RAM** | 16GB+ |
| **Storage** | 100GB+ NVMe SSD |
| **Network** | Gigabit Ethernet |
| **Redundancy** | Multiple instances for HA |

### Cloud Instance Recommendations

#### AWS EC2

- **Minimum**: t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM)
- **Recommended**: t3.large (2 vCPU, 8GB RAM)
- **Production**: t3.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) or larger

#### DigitalOcean

- **Minimum**: s-2vcpu-4gb ($24/month)
- **Recommended**: s-4vcpu-8gb ($48/month)
- **Production**: s-8vcpu-16gb ($96/month)

#### Google Cloud

- **Minimum**: n1-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 7.5GB RAM)
- **Recommended**: n1-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 15GB RAM)
- **Production**: n1-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 30GB RAM)

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## Software Stack

### Operating System

- **Base**: Debian 12 (Bookworm) / Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- **Kernel**: Linux 6.1.0+ (Cortex-enhanced)
- **Init System**: systemd 251+

### Core Libraries

| Library | Version | Purpose |
|---------|---------|----------|
| **glibc** | 2.35+ | C standard library |
| **OpenSSL** | 3.0+ | Cryptography |
| **zlib** | 1.2.13+ | Compression |
| **libcurl** | 7.85+ | HTTP client (optional) |
| **libyaml** | 0.2.5+ | Configuration parsing |

### AI Engine Dependencies

| Dependency | Version | Purpose |
|------------|---------|---------|
| **Eigen** | 3.4+ | Linear algebra |
| **ONNX Runtime** | 1.15+ | Model inference (optional) |
| **BLAS** | OpenBLAS 0.3.20+ | Matrix operations |

### Development Tools

| Tool | Version | Purpose |
|------|---------|---------|
| **GCC** | 11+ | C/C++ compiler |
| **Clang** | 14+ | Alternative C/C++ compiler |
| **Rust** | 1.70+ | CLI tool development |
| **Go** | 1.20+ | HTTP API server |
| **Python** | 3.10+ | SDK and tooling |
| **CMake** | 3.20+ | Build system |

### Runtime Dependencies

| Package | Version | Purpose |
|---------|---------|---------|
| **systemd** | 251+ | Service management |
| **dbus** | 1.14+ | Inter-process communication |
| **libsystemd** | 251+ | systemd integration |

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## Kernel Enhancements

### AI-Aware Process Scheduler

**Module**: `cortex_scheduler.ko`

**Features**:
- Priority boost for AI inference tasks
- CPU affinity optimization
- Real-time scheduling support
- Workload-aware CPU allocation

**Configuration**:
```bash
# Enable AI-aware scheduling
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/cortex/scheduler/enabled

# Set AI process priority
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/cortex/scheduler/ai_priority

# Configure CPU affinity
echo "0-3" > /sys/kernel/cortex/scheduler/ai_cpus
```

### Enhanced Memory Management

**Module**: `cortex_memory.ko`

**Features**:
- Large page support for model memory
- Memory compaction for AI workloads
- NUMA awareness
- Memory pressure handling

**Configuration**:
```bash
# Enable large pages
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/cortex/memory/large_pages

# Set memory limits
echo 512 > /sys/kernel/cortex/memory/max_mb
```

### System Monitoring

**Module**: `cortex_monitor.ko`

**Features**:
- Real-time performance metrics
- Resource usage tracking
- Event logging
- Performance counters

**Metrics Exposed**:
- `/proc/cortex/performance`: Performance counters
- `/proc/cortex/memory`: Memory usage
- `/proc/cortex/cpu`: CPU usage
- `/proc/cortex/requests`: Request statistics

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## AI Engine Specifications

### Model Details

**Name**: Sapiens 0.27B

**Architecture**:
- **Type**: Decoder-only transformer
- **Parameters**: 270,000,000
- **Layers**: 24
- **Attention Heads**: 16
- **Hidden Dimension**: 1024
- **Intermediate Dimension**: 4096
- **Vocabulary Size**: 50,257
- **Context Length**: 2048 tokens
- **Position Encoding**: Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE)

**Quantization**:
- **Format**: INT8 quantization
- **Calibration**: Per-channel quantization
- **Accuracy Loss**: <2% compared to FP16

**Optimizations**:
- **Operator Fusion**: Fused attention and MLP operations
- **Kernel Optimization**: SIMD-optimized kernels
- **Memory Layout**: Optimized for cache locality
- **Batch Processing**: Efficient batching support

### Inference Engine

**Language**: C++17

**Key Components**:
- **Tokenizer**: Fast BPE tokenization
- **Embedding Layer**: Efficient embedding lookup
- **Transformer Blocks**: Optimized attention and MLP
- **Output Layer**: Language modeling head

**Performance Optimizations**:
- **SIMD**: AVX2/AVX-512 vectorization
- **Multi-threading**: OpenMP parallelization
- **Memory Pool**: Pre-allocated memory pools
- **Caching**: KV cache for repeated queries

### API Interface

**C API**: See [Developer Documentation - C API](Developer-Documentation.md#c-api-ai-engine)

**Python API**: See [AI Integration - Python Integration](AI-Integration.md#python-integration)

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## Performance Tuning

### CPU Tuning

```bash
# Set CPU governor to performance
echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

# Disable CPU frequency scaling
sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance

# Set CPU affinity
taskset -cp 0-3 $(pgrep cortex-ai)
```

### Memory Tuning

```yaml
# /etc/cortex-ai/config.yaml
ai:
  # Increase memory allocation
  max_memory_mb: 1024
  
  # Enable memory pooling
  enable_memory_pool: true
  memory_pool_size_mb: 512
```

### I/O Tuning

```bash
# Set I/O scheduler
echo none > /sys/block/nvme0n1/queue/scheduler

# Increase read-ahead
sudo blockdev --setra 8192 /dev/nvme0n1
```

### Network Tuning (for HTTP API)

```bash
# Increase TCP buffer sizes
echo 'net.core.rmem_max = 16777216' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
echo 'net.core.wmem_max = 16777216' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p
```

### Model-Specific Tuning

```yaml
# /etc/cortex-ai/config.yaml
ai:
  # Thread configuration
  num_threads: 4  # Match CPU cores
  
  # Batch processing
  batch_size: 10  # Increase for throughput
  
  # Generation parameters
  temperature: 0.7
  top_p: 0.9
  top_k: 40
  max_tokens: 512
```

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## Scalability

### Vertical Scaling

Increase resources on a single instance:
- **CPU**: Add more cores (linear scaling up to ~8 cores)
- **RAM**: Increase memory (allows larger batches)
- **Storage**: Use faster storage (NVMe SSD)

### Horizontal Scaling

Deploy multiple instances behind a load balancer:

```yaml
# Load balancer configuration
services:
  cortex1:
    image: cortex-linux:latest
    ports:
      - "8081:8080"
  
  cortex2:
    image: cortex-linux:latest
    ports:
      - "8082:8080"
  
  cortex3:
    image: cortex-linux:latest
    ports:
      - "8083:8080"
  
  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
```

### Caching Strategy

```yaml
# Enable caching
caching:
  enabled: true
  backend: redis  # or memory
  ttl_seconds: 3600
  max_size_mb: 1000
```

### Monitoring and Metrics

```bash
# Enable Prometheus metrics
# /etc/cortex-ai/config.yaml
monitoring:
  prometheus:
    enabled: true
    port: 9090
    path: /metrics
```

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## Next Steps

- **Installation**: [Installation Guide](Installation-Guide.md)
- **Integration**: [AI Integration Guide](AI-Integration.md)
- **Development**: [Developer Documentation](Developer-Documentation.md)

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*Last updated: 2024*