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+title = "The OpenCloud Project"
+description = "A sovereign, peer-to-peer distributed cloud fabric for sharing infrastructure and resources across trusted partners."
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+Each participant can selectively share:
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+- **Data**
+- **Algorithms**
+- **Compute power**
+- **Storage**
+- **Pre-built workflows and services**
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+with other OpenCloud peers, under rules they fully control.
+
+## What OpenCloud Enables
+
+With OpenCloud, organizations can:
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+- 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:
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+- **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:
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+- **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
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+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:
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+- 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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+[Discover the Architecture →](/project/architecture)  
+[Explore Features and Benefits →](/project/features)