The OpenCloud Project

A sovereign, peer-to-peer distributed cloud fabric for sharing infrastructure and resources across trusted partners.

Each participant can selectively share:

  • Data
  • Algorithms
  • Compute power
  • Storage
  • Pre-built workflows and services

with other OpenCloud peers, under rules they fully control.

What OpenCloud Enables

With OpenCloud, organizations can:

  • Build cross-organization workflows that run across multiple infrastructures
  • Monetize resources (share, sell, or rent capacity and services)
  • Create private communities of peers for sensitive or strategic projects
  • Maintain full control over data location and access policies
  • Track resource consumption and billing transparently between partners

Optimization on Your Own Terms

Distributed execution in OpenCloud is not tied to a single global policy.
Each instance can optimize workflows for its own objectives:

  • Maximal sovereignty – prioritize data locality, compliance, and strategic autonomy
  • Accelerated computation – prioritize time-to-result and performance
  • Cost minimization – route workloads based on cost constraints
  • Optimized infrastructure investments – improve utilization of existing assets

Key Concepts

OpenCloud instances expose a set of integrated services:

  • Resource Catalog – index and describe data, algorithms, compute units, storage, and workflows
  • Workspace Management – organize resources of interest into project-oriented workspaces
  • Workflow Editor – build distributed workflows and permanent services from catalog elements
  • Collaborative Areas – define rules and constraints for shared workspaces and workflows
  • Peer Management – configure trust relationships and access rights between peers and groups

These services together create a cooperation framework that covers both technical and organizational/legal aspects of distributed projects.

Who Is OpenCloud For?

OpenCloud targets organizations that:

  • Need to collaborate on data- and compute-intensive projects
  • Care about sovereignty, compliance, and resilience
  • Want to avoid vendor lock-in and opaque proprietary platforms
  • Intend to run workloads from datacenter to edge and possibly on public cloud when appropriate

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