Engineering AI for the Organized Chaos of Infrastructure
IT infrastructure is organized chaos. How STRATUM balances AI autonomy, persistent context, verification and operational control.
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FROM THE PEOPLE BUILDING STRATUM
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the infrastructure.
Engineering, AI operations, software-defined datacenters, and the architecture behind STRATUM. Written to explain what we are building—and why.
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Soft-MIG: One Physical GPU. Sixteen Virtual GPUs. Real CUDA.
One physical GPU. Up to sixteen allocatable GPU resources. STRATUM's virtual PCI device controls real CUDA access with GPU Splicing (Soft-MIG), GPU-over-IP and software-enforced VRAM budgets.
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THE ARCHIVE
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Work in progress, architecture, and lessons from building the platform.
GPUHammer, GPUBreach, GPUThor, and the Need for a GPU Firewall
GPU memory attacks are turning the accelerator itself into a security boundary. STRATUM is building enforcement and threat-response capabilities for that boundary.
READ ARTICLEPost-Quantum Cryptography in STRATUM: PQC Meets FIPS 140-3
STRATUM is moving post-quantum cryptography into the infrastructure control plane while keeping the FIPS 140-3 validation boundary explicit and verifiable.
READ ARTICLEA Raw LLM Is Not Enough
Anyone who has used a raw model API knows how quickly a confident answer can drift away from reality. Infrastructure cannot afford to make that the control plane.
READ ARTICLEOur Deliberately Unreasonable AI Test
We intentionally give STRATUM AI missions that are too large for a scripted demo because that is where architectural weaknesses become obvious.
READ ARTICLERecovery Matters as Much as Execution
Infrastructure automation has to survive interrupted commands, partial completion, stale state, and asynchronous work without blindly doing things twice.
READ ARTICLEReal Automation Eventually Reaches a Screen
APIs cover a lot of infrastructure. Installers, recovery environments, graphical tools, and legacy software still put a screen in the way.
READ ARTICLEThe Model Gets Intelligence. STRATUM Provides Control.
The model reasons about the mission. Skills contribute expertise. STRATUM decides what is valid, allowed, and proven.
READ ARTICLEWhy AI Needs a Harness Before It Touches Your Datacenter
Infrastructure AI becomes serious the moment a model can change real systems. That is where a harness stops being optional.
READ ARTICLEThe STRATUM AI Harness: Let the Model Reason. Make the Platform Prove It.
STRATUM AI uses the model for reasoning while the platform keeps control of identity, authorization, current state, execution, and proof.
READ ARTICLEGive the Datacenter an AI Operator
Once the datacenter becomes a coherent software model, AI can reason over the real environment and use the platform itself as the toolset.
READ ARTICLEBuild Your Datacenter Like You Build an Application
Software teams learned how to build, version, ship, and roll back applications. Infrastructure should gain the same operational discipline.
READ ARTICLEThe Datacenter Becomes the Application
STRATUM starts with a simple idea: the infrastructure model should be alive, operational, and connected directly to the systems it represents.
READ ARTICLEWhy I Built STRATUM
Thirty years across global-scale IT and military IT left me asking the same question: why does infrastructure still feel so static?
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