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title = "The OpenCloud Project"
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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**
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- **Algorithms**
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- **Compute power**
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- **Storage**
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- **Pre-built workflows and services**
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with other OpenCloud peers, under rules they fully control.
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## What OpenCloud Enables
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With OpenCloud, organizations can:
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- Build **cross-organization workflows** that run across multiple infrastructures
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- **Monetize resources** (share, sell, or rent capacity and services)
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- Create **private communities of peers** for sensitive or strategic projects
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- Maintain full **control over data location and access policies**
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- Track **resource consumption and billing** transparently between partners
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## Optimization on Your Own Terms
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Distributed execution in OpenCloud is not tied to a single global policy.
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Each instance can optimize workflows for its own objectives:
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- **Maximal sovereignty** – prioritize data locality, compliance, and strategic autonomy
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- **Accelerated computation** – prioritize time-to-result and performance
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- **Cost minimization** – route workloads based on cost constraints
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- **Optimized infrastructure investments** – improve utilization of existing assets
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## Key Concepts
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OpenCloud instances expose a set of integrated services:
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- **Resource Catalog** – index and describe data, algorithms, compute units, storage, and workflows
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- **Workspace Management** – organize resources of interest into project-oriented workspaces
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- **Workflow Editor** – build distributed workflows and permanent services from catalog elements
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- **Collaborative Areas** – define rules and constraints for shared workspaces and workflows
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- **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.
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## Who Is OpenCloud For?
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OpenCloud targets organizations that:
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- Need to collaborate on **data- and compute-intensive projects**
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- Care about **sovereignty, compliance, and resilience**
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- Want to avoid **vendor lock-in** and opaque proprietary platforms
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- Intend to run workloads **from datacenter to edge** and possibly on **public cloud** when appropriate
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[Discover the Architecture →](/project/architecture)
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[Explore Features and Benefits →](/project/features)
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