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The Control Plane
for GPU
Infrastructure

Deterministic governance, safety enforcement, and cryptographic auditability for AI compute fleets. SPARK-XC sits above the GPU runtime and below your workloads — governing every power decision, policy rule, and fleet state transition.

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5×
Independent Safety Layers
<2ms
Thermal Response Time
0
Single Points of Failure
Governs Power Budgets Safety Policies Fleet State Audit Trail

The authoritative layer that governs your fleet

Most GPU infrastructure has no control plane. Workloads talk directly to drivers. Policies aren't enforced. Safety depends on a single software layer. When it fails, nothing catches it.

SPARK-XC is the control plane that sits between your schedulers and your GPU runtime — governing every power decision, enforcing every safety rule, and recording every state transition with cryptographic proof.

SPARK-XC wraps your GPU in five independently operating safety layers, each capable of enforcing power limits on its own. No cascading failures. No silent gaps. Every decision cryptographically signed.

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Below-OS Hardware Clamping Direct register enforcement — active even when the OS fails
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Sub-2ms Thermal Emergency Response Faster than any software stack can react
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Cryptographic Audit Trail HMAC-SHA256 chained log of every action — tamper-evident
L1
L3
L5
SPARK-XC

SPARK-XC governs the full GPU fleet

In infrastructure systems there are two planes. The data plane executes. The control plane governs — deciding what should happen, where resources go, and which policies apply.

SPARK-XC is the control plane for your GPU infrastructure. Every power limit, every safety rule, every state transition flows through it before reaching hardware.

⚖️
Governance
Policy engine, fleet power budgets, and rule enforcement across every GPU — not just individual devices.
🛡️
Safety
Hardware clamping, thermal protection, and verification — five independent layers with no shared failure mode.
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Auditability
Cryptographic logs, compliance evidence, and forensic traceability — a permanent tamper-evident record of every decision.
GPU Infrastructure Stack
AI Applications
PyTorch · Inference · Training
WORKLOAD
Schedulers
Kubernetes · Slurm · Ray
ORCHESTRATION
SPARK-XC Control Plane
Policy · Safety · Governance · Audit
CONTROL
GPU Runtime
CUDA · NVML · Drivers
RUNTIME
GPU Hardware
H100 · A100 · MI300 · PCIe
HARDWARE
"All GPU state transitions flow through SPARK-XC before reaching hardware. No workload, scheduler, or operator can bypass the control plane."

Where SPARK-XC sits in your stack

Watch a power limit request travel from application to hardware — and see exactly where SPARK-XC intercepts, validates, and records it.

User Application
AI workload requests
SET_POWER_LIMIT(350W)
Training job
submits request
CUDA / Driver
nvml routes command
through kernel
Pass-through
no enforcement
OS / Kernel
ioctl forwarded
to PCIe bus
No safety checks
at this layer
SPARK-XC Layer
5 LAYERS
L1 · Hardware Clamp
Register-level cap
below OS — always on
350W → 300W
HW_LOCK: TRUE
L2 · Thermal Emergency
Sensor polling
<2ms armed response
78°C / 95°C
THROTTLE: ARMED
L3 · Governance Gate
Policy engine
48 rules evaluated
GATE: PASS
rule 17 matched
L4 · Execute + Verify
Apply limit &
read back register
SET_300W
Δ = 0W ✓
L5 · Crypto Audit
HMAC-SHA256
chain entry appended
a3f8...d291
CHAIN: VALID
GPU — PCIe x16 · SPARK-XC Protected
300W · Safe
74°C
Temperature
300W
Power Draw
87%
Utilization
Power Budget86%
Normal operation
Thermal event
SPARK-XC throttled

Five layers. Each one sufficient.

Every layer can independently enforce safety. If Layer 2 fails, Layer 1 is still enforcing. If Layer 3 is compromised, Layer 4 catches it. The design never assumes the previous layer succeeded.

01
Hardware Clamping
Direct register-level enforcement below the OS. Always active, independent of any software or driver state.
✓ ENFORCED
POWER_LIMIT_REG
> SET: 300W
> HW_LOCK: TRUE
02
Thermal Emergency
Real-time sensor monitoring with sub-2ms emergency response. Bypasses all upstream controls on threshold breach.
✓ ARMED
THERMAL_SENSOR
> TEMP: 78°C
> LIMIT: 95°C
03
Governance Gates
Policy engine evaluates all power requests against configurable governance rules before execution is permitted.
✓ PASS
POLICY_ENGINE
> RULES: 48
> RESULT: PASS
04
Execute + Verify
Applies approved changes then immediately reads back the hardware register to confirm the intended state was achieved.
✓ VERIFIED Δ=0W
EXEC_VERIFY
> SET: 300W
> READBACK: 300W
05
Cryptographic Audit Log
Every event is HMAC-SHA256 signed and chained to the previous entry. Tamper-evident. Forensically complete.
🔗 CHAINED
AUDIT_CHAIN
> HMAC: SHA-256
> ENTRIES: 14,820
Independent Failure Isolation
Each layer is architecturally isolated. A fault, exploit, or malfunction in any single layer cannot cascade — the remaining layers maintain full enforcement at all times.

Engineered for provable safety

<2ms
Thermal Response
5×
Safety Layers
256-bit
HMAC Chain
0
Single Points of Failure

Built for infrastructure teams where control matters

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Data Centers & HPC
Enforce power limits across GPU clusters without depending on a single driver or OS layer. Protect hardware investment at scale.
⚖️
Regulatory Compliance
Cryptographically logged evidence of every power decision. Give auditors a tamper-evident, complete record they can trust.
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Mission-Critical AI
AI training and inference can't afford downtime from hardware faults. SPARK-XC ensures safety holds even when software fails.
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Investor-Grade Assurance
Patent-pending methodology with documented, defensible architecture. Provable safety properties with measurable guarantees.
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Thermal Resilience
Layer 2 reacts in under 2ms — faster than software can respond. Hardware survives events that would otherwise cause permanent damage.
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Enterprise Integration
Governance gates are configurable to your policy framework. SPARK-XC integrates with your existing monitoring and compliance stack.

Every action, immutably recorded

The SPARK-XC audit chain uses HMAC-SHA256 to link every log entry to its predecessor. Any tampering is instantly detectable.

  • Chained HMAC signatures link every log entry — a break in the chain proves tampering
  • Timestamps, layer state, and action parameters captured atomically with each event
  • Exportable audit reports for compliance, forensics, and incident response
  • Operates independently of all other layers — logs even when other layers fail
SPARK-XC AUDIT STREAM · LIVE
09:14:01.004[OK] L1 HW_CLAMP enforced 300W
09:14:01.006[HASH]a3f8...d291 chained
09:14:01.008[OK] L2 THERMAL nominal 74°C
09:14:01.009[HASH]7c2a...f104 chained
09:14:02.112[WARN]L3 POLICY: request at limit
09:14:02.113[OK] L3 GATE: PASS (rule 17)
09:14:02.118[OK] L4 EXEC: SET_300W verified
09:14:03.200[OK] L5 AUDIT chain integrity ✓
09:14:03.201[HASH]f33c...8b02 chained
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Deploy the control plane
your GPU fleet is missing

We're onboarding a select group of design partners — data center operators, AI labs, and enterprise teams ready to deploy a true GPU infrastructure control plane.

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