Bare-metal performance for the workloads that cannot afford a hypervisor tax, with managed Kubernetes and reference architectures on top. Owners get a portable operating layer without surrendering the hardware underneath.
Training and low-latency inference expose every layer of overhead, so nodes are provisioned as bare metal by default.
Accelerator and fabric workloads run directly on the host so there is no virtualization penalty on collective operations. Bare metal keeps device passthrough and RDMA paths native.
Nodes are provisioned from a measured boot chain so the operator can verify firmware and image before a node joins a cluster. An unattested node is quarantined rather than scheduled.
Sovereign workloads run on physically dedicated hosts, never co-tenanted with untrusted workloads on the same silicon. Isolation is by hardware, not just by namespace.
The operator controls firmware, baseboard management, and out-of-band access as part of the sovereign boundary. Management interfaces sit on an isolated network the owner governs.
Kubernetes gives owners a portable operating layer, extended so GPUs and fabric are scheduled as real resources rather than afterthoughts.
Device plugins expose accelerators, partitions, and fabric affinity to the scheduler so pods land with correct topology. Gang scheduling ensures multi-pod training jobs start whole.
CNI is configured for RDMA and multi-NIC pods so container workloads reach the same fabric performance as bare metal. Storage and control traffic stay on separate interfaces from tensor traffic.
Cluster upgrades, node repair, and add-on operators are managed so the owner runs workloads rather than the control plane. Upgrades roll pod by pod without draining an entire training pool at once.
Institutions get hard multi-tenant boundaries with quota, network policy, and admission control per namespace. Policy is authored by the operator, enforced at admission.
In sovereign finance, what runs must be provably what was approved, so trust is checked at admission time.
Only images signed against an owner-controlled trust root are admitted to the cluster. Signatures use post-quantum ML-DSA-65 so provenance holds against a future quantum adversary.
Admission policy is version-controlled and enforced by the API server, so an unreviewed workload cannot reach a node. Policy changes are auditable like any other change.
Cluster secrets are sealed with keys the owning institution holds, so the platform cannot read them. Key custody is designed for hardware-backed roots the owner controls.
Admission decisions and privileged actions are recorded on the tamper-evident hash-chained ledger. The chain makes after-the-fact edits to the record detectable.
Sovereignty includes the freedom to leave, so the operating layer is built on interfaces owners can carry.
The control plane tracks upstream Kubernetes APIs so manifests and operators remain portable. Nothing critical depends on a proprietary API an owner cannot reproduce.
Storage and networking use standard CSI and CNI interfaces so an owner can substitute components. The reference stack is documented, not opaque.
Workloads, data, and keys are the owner's to move out on their terms. Migration paths are designed in from the start rather than bolted on at a contract's end.
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