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ClusterWareAI™

Overview

Penguin Solutions ClusterWareAI AI Factory Platform operating system software transforms compute, memory, networking, storage, and software resources into a unified, full-stack AI factory. Serving as the hardware-agnostic operational control plane across the AI factory lifecycle, it unifies deployment, health management, performance optimization, and governance across training and inference environments.

At its core, ClusterWareAI delivers rapid, image-based deployment and provisioning, real-time health monitoring and advanced performance optimization, and robust change control and scale out, enabling administrators to allocate and provision secure computing resources for multiple user communities within a cluster.

Building on this foundation, ClusterWareAI’s automated remediation system (ARS) provides deep insight into GPU health, identifies silent degradations that traditional monitoring tools often miss, and automates repair to deliver peak performance and resilience across large-scale training and inference workloads. The platform also brings AI-powered cluster insights to operations teams via the built-in AI Factory Operations Agent, which turns complex diagnostics into a simple conversation, accelerating root cause analysis.

As the operating system for the AI factory, ClusterWareAI enables infrastructure teams to sustain cluster performance, protect workload resilience, automate best practices, and simplify operations from first deployment to enterprise scale. Together, these capabilities help

Key Features

Rapid Deployment

High-speed image-based provisioning for fast cluster boot times

Heterogeneous OS and hardware support

Ansible-based orchestration and automation for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code

High availability configuration enables any head node to serve any compute node

Health Management and Performance Assurance

Deep hardware telemetry provides comprehensive monitoring of cluster component health, performance, and status down to the BIOS level

Advanced performance optimization and automated remediation of GPUs to optimize training and inference

Conversational diagnostics via the built-in AI Factory Operations Agent to accelerate root-cause analysis

Secure Resource Sharing

Network-isolated multi-tenancy for robust workload and data security

Security Standards and Governance

Support for the stringent security protocols required in secure, controlled environments

AI data center operators scale with confidence, accelerate time to value, and maximize the return on their AI and HPC infrastructure investments.

The ClusterWareAI user interface (UI) includes a node display to provide administrators with a clear, at-a-glance view of system status. Admins can also drill down into nodes to see the associated attributes and other details.

The AI Factory Operations Agent is an AI assistant built into ClusterWareAI that enhances cluster operations and insight via a natural-language interface. Using an intuitive conversation, operators can gather cluster insights, simplify complex diagnostics, and accelerate issue resolution across the operations team.

ClusterWareAI’s UI comes with Grafana to provide powerful, customizable dashboards for cluster-wide health monitoring and alerting.

Achieve operational excellence at every stage of your AI Journey

As organizations scale AI deployments from pilots to enterprise-wide production, they require high-performance, reliable, and resilient AI factory infrastructure. ClusterWareAI provides the AI factory-level OS that unifies and abstracts hardware and software resources, enabling large-scale training and inference while supporting the provisioning of workgroups across enterprise AI environments.

Whether you’re starting an AI initiative or scaling across the enterprise, ClusterWareAI software simplifies deployment and management, streamlines administration, and optimizes compute resources for peak efficiency.

ClusterWareAI brings Penguin’s operational intelligence from four billion GPU runtime hours to every stage of the AI lifecycle, enabling teams to optimize AI infrastructure and cluster performance—elevating infrastructure management from best practices to sustained operational excellence.

Penguin Solutions ClusterWareAI software simplifies cluster deployment, management, and performance optimization for administrators through the following key features: Accelerate cluster deployment

Rapid, image-based provisioning

Minimizes steps, reduces errors, and dramatically cuts new node provisioning time

Hardware-agnostic

Heterogeneous OS and hardware support provides flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in

Flexible management options

Intuitive web-based GUI, powerful command-line interface (CLI), and RESTful API for seamless control

Highly secure resource sharing

Network-isolated multi-tenancy securely partitions

AI factory infrastructure while maintaining centralized operational control, robust workload and data security, regulatory governance and compliance, and advanced resource allocation

Scheduler-agnostic integration

Supports Slurm for large-scale training, Kubernetes for AI inference, and other workload managers

Containerization for IT efficiency

Enables easy integration with IT management tools and accelerates workload deployment

Stateless compute architecture

Supports diskless booting, enabling immutable configurations, high reliability, and effortless scalability

Seamless CI/CD pipeline integration

Automates image management, software deployment, and hardware driver updates using Git-based continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Optimize cluster performance

Real-time performance monitoring, telemetry, and alerting

Continuous monitoring and health management, combined with advanced performance optimization, provide administrators with the tools required for ongoing cluster optimization, development, and resilience. Key features include:

Delivers customizable alerts via Grafana, email, and webhooks, with precise telemetry captured directly from the BIOS and hardware layer, to address issues proactively and provide a definitive signal of physical cluster health

Centralized logging and auditing

Comprehensive system logs, authentication tracking, and role-based access control (RBAC) activity monitoring for enhanced security and compliance

Advanced performance optimization and remediation

Intelligent automation proactively identifies and resolves hidden issues that degrade cluster performance, including hardware-aware automated remediation that directs Kubernetes to safely cordon, drain, and evacuate degraded nodes before they impact inference performance or SLAs

Natural language diagnostics

The AI Factory Operations Agent, a built-in AI assistant within the UI, uses a natural-language interface to simplify diagnostics and accelerate root-cause identification across the operations team

The ClusterWareAI software supports strict security protocols and restricted environment requirements to maintain high security standards. It includes support for:

Secure operations & governance

SELinux enforcement

Supports both Targeted and Multi-Level Security (MLS) policies for granular access control

Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)

Adheres to rigorous security configurations for hardened deployments

FIPS 140-2 compliance

Ensures cryptographic security in sensitive computing environments

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) encryption

Enhances disk security with Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS)-based encryption

Air-gapped deployment support

Enables fully isolated, offline environments for the highest levels of security

Contact Us

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