As this work was done as a proof-of-principle implementation, we hope the MD scientific community takes notice of the potential gains in using similar socket-based approaches, especially considering the recent advancements in ML potentials. This approach has been successfully integrated into a work-in-progress reference active learning implementation for SH simulations is freely available. We also aim to add parallelization in our socket-based IPC implementation to face future challenges in ML-powered NAMD.