22 AUG 2026 // AI + HPC + SOVEREIGN COMPUTE

NM AI HPC Coordination Fabric

A control plane for discovering, scheduling, governing, metering and brokering high-performance AI compute across New Mexico. Compute is the resource. Tokens are the allocation mechanism. Policy is the governor. The network is the fabric.

Compute Fabric

GB300 NVL72-class scale-up domains using NVLink/NVSwitch, connected through ConnectX-8 and Quantum-X800-class XDR InfiniBand for high-speed scale-out.

Control Plane

Identity, Zero Trust policy, Slurm, Kubernetes, capacity discovery, workload placement, metering, audit and provider federation.

Compute Tokens

Auditable entitlement and accounting units representing GPU-hours and associated resources. They are not inherently cryptocurrency or speculative assets.

Sovereign Reserve

Protected capacity for cyber incidents, wildfire, drought, water, emergency management, infrastructure and other New Mexico mission workloads.

Topology

AUTHORIZED USERS / AGENCIES / RESEARCH / COMMERCIAL
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                 API + IDENTITY EDGE
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                NM AI CONTROL PLANE
              policy / tokens / metering
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             SLURM + KUBERNETES
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             QUANTUM-X800 XDR IB
                 800 Gb/s class
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          +--------------+--------------+
          |                             |
    GB300 NVL72 #1                 GB300 NVL72 #N
    NVLink/NVSwitch                NVLink/NVSwitch
          |                             |
          +--------------+--------------+
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                    DATA FABRIC
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           NVMe / Parallel FS / Object

Separate OOB management, telemetry and security plane

Design philosophy

Mission before market. Brokerage strengthens public and research capacity rather than consuming it. Fabric before fleet. Interconnect is part of the computer. Sovereignty through federation. Institutions retain ownership and data control while authorized excess capacity becomes discoverable. Human authority remains explicit. AI may optimize scheduling inside policy, but it does not silently redefine policy.

Allocation classes

Mission

Critical government and sovereign workloads.

Research

Universities, laboratories and science.

Innovation

Startup and economic-development allocations.

Commercial

Paid access to approved surplus capacity.

Roadmap

Foundation → metered accounting → institutional federation → governed compute exchange → AI-assisted statewide coordination.

The objective is not merely a supercomputer. It is a statewide coordination layer through which heterogeneous New Mexico AI/HPC resources can operate as an auditable, policy-governed computational commons.

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