Architecture preview · 2026 · Design partners and early technical adopters

Heterogeneous Rack-as-a-System AI Infrastructure.



Your data is the moat. Your tuned models are your core intelligence. Hold your core, your premise, own your rack — hold your boundary. However, an AI rack isn't just another job runner. AI serving is a pipeline of data movement across physical and authority boundaries — compute, memory, fabric, storage. Nobody spans it today. And autonomous agents open a second surface no perimeter tool reaches.

Today's infra stack is yesterday's — it needs a new mindset and thinking.

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Chapter 01 · Why · Two surfaces the OS has to span

An AI rack isn't a job runner. AI serving is a pipeline across silicon, memory, fabric, storage — with branches and loops where the agentic workflow demands it. When it degrades, every point tool sees its slice. Nobody spans the pipeline end-to-end across boundaries.

CUDA kernels NCCL collectives Triton inference graphs Dynamo prefill–decode Kubernetes pod placement

Performance is one surface. Behavior is another. Autonomous agents behind the firewall — including agent-to-agent lateral paths — open a second surface no perimeter tool reaches. Both surfaces need a runtime that owns the substrate.

Today Your platform team chases symptoms four layers from the cause. Wrong choke point. Wrong GPU order. Wrong quarter.
What's missing Not another dashboard. A runtime with authority over the rack — one that spans the pipeline and the agent behavior on the same backend.

Yesterday I had thousands tokens per second, now I only have 10. What happened? Where?

INGRESS NIC · Network LINE-RATE LIMITS NIC BUFFER OVERFLOWS PREPARATION CPU · DRAM THREAD STARVATION DRAM LATENCY CONSTRAINTS STAGING Memory Tiers BANDWIDTH SATURATION NUMA TRAVERSAL OVERHEAD EXECUTION GPU · VRAM VRAM CAPACITY CEILINGS GPU UNDERUTILIZATION POST-PROCESSING CPU · GPU D2H CONTEXT SWITCHING PIPELINE STALLS PERSISTENCE Storage · Platform READ/WRITE CONTENTION STORAGE IOPS LIMITS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! FORWARD FLOW BACKPRESSURE · downstream failure → upstream symptom FORWARD CASCADE · upstream overflow → downstream stall every stage is a failure mode · cross-stage pressure means the symptom is rarely the root cause VICTIM ≠ ROOT CAUSE · WITHOUT WORKLOAD CONTROL, YOU CHASE SYMPTOMS
Chapter 01 (cont'd) · Four gaps, one root cause

Today's rack is not operationalized as one.

The unit of work is the pipeline, not the GPU. Today's racks ship as a puzzle of bundled hardware or integrated for specific workloads; nothing spans them as a governed system for guaranteed workload outcomes. Every layer has its own dashboard; none owns the pipeline. AI work spreads quietly across on-prem, GPUaaS, and external LLM providers.

PROBLEM · 01

No hybrid AI rack architecture.

An enterprise AI workload isn't one shape. Agentic workflows branch and loop. MoE experts fan out. RAG retrieval hits vector and OLAP storage. Yet today's racks are still shaped like one big training job — same GPUs, same memory, same fabric, same lifecycle. The heterogeneous, stage-aware, lifecycle-decoupled rack architecture the enterprise needs doesn't exist as a shipped product.

PROBLEM · 02

Architectural rigidity.

Today's AI rack is many vendors at once — CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, NICs, BMCs, fabric switches, storage, firmware. The traditional path is rigid: qualify every combination, ship one tested release, freeze it. Every new component, every drawer swap, every patch reopens the test matrix — integration paid in months, refresh cycles measured in years.

PROBLEM · 03

No rack-level pipeline authority.

An AI workload spans ingest, staging, compute, post-processing, persistence — across CPU, GPU, fabric, and storage. Every layer has its own dashboard; none owns the pipeline as a whole. No rack-level visibility, governance, or guardrails span the full path — downtime cascades before data reaches the GPU, and the symptom is rarely the root cause.

PROBLEM · 04

AI sprawl.

Employees spin up AI workflows, fine-tune models, and call LLM providers across on-prem, GPUaaS, and external APIs. Autonomous agents SSH switches, push config, shift traffic — with valid credentials, invisible to app-layer gateways. CIO and CISO cannot see who runs what, what data leaves the perimeter, or what an agent just did to the fabric.

It's pipelines all the way down. Point solutions are blind to the end-to-end view — and to the governance.

A workflow is a pipeline. ingest → prep → execute → post → persist.
A GPU is not a resource — it's a bundle of pipes plus a feed. SMs, tensor cores, FP pipes, DRAM, NVLink, feed path.

Same pattern at every scale: stages plus feed, compute plus movement, work plus wait. Every stage depends on every other. The mistake every default abstraction layer makes is treating each stage as an isolated resource — a GPU, a pod, a VM — and hiding the stages from each other on principle.

VMware abstracted the hardware down. Kubernetes abstracted the cluster down. Both built layers of siblings that don't know each other exist. What's missing is a runtime that owns the substrate and the pipeline on top of it — as one system.

Chapter 02 · The Anavec System

The AI infrastructure system. AnaRack, with AnaROS running on it.

Anavec builds the AI infrastructure system for enterprise AI. AnaRack is the rack — heterogeneous, open, purpose-built for your premise. AnaROS is the runtime that runs on it — the AI-native OS that governs the pipeline. One system, engineered against itself. Deploy AnaROS software-first on your existing brownfield rack today; put AnaRack under it when the substrate matters. One design intent: you hold the moat — data, models, runtime — inside your own boundary.

The Rack
AnaRack — the heterogeneous AI rack

Purpose-built for your premise.

Different from the mega DC. Built for the enterprise budget that can't refresh fleets the way hyperscalers do — and for the sovereign workload that can't leave the boundary. The substrate the runtime is engineered against.

  • Decoupled CPU / GPU lifecycles
  • A new memory tier
  • Compute disaggregated from storage
  • Standards-based throughout
  • On-prem, edge, IaaS
The Runtime
AnaROS — the AI-native OS on the rack

Governs the pipeline that runs on the rack. Decides. Acts. Air-gapped capable.

The AI-native OS with authority over the substrate below it. Runs on AnaRack as the full system, or software-first on your existing brownfield rack — same K8s, same CUDA, no rewrites. Software-first deployment gets you the Pipeline Governor and self-driving engine on the hardware you already own.

  • Pipeline Governor
  • Self-driving operation
  • Two surfaces on one backend
  • Air-gapped capable
  • Brownfield-ready
Chapter 03 · Self-driving operation

Your infra decides and acts on itself. Air-gapped capable.

The Pipeline Governor turns telemetry into action, on the rack — no SaaS pane, no external LLM, no egress. See. Decide. Act. Learn. One closed loop, running on the same substrate that runs your pipelines.

Input · 01
Framework
Input · 02
Pipeline
Input · 03
Agentic workflow
The runtime

AnaROS · the Pipeline Governor

Surface 01 · Telemetry (see)
What the pipeline is doing — workflow to silicon.
X-rayGovernorTraceabilityPlacement
Surface 02 · Behavior (decide)
What the pipeline — and the agents on it — are allowed to do.
Drift MgmtContinuous LearningGuardrail
The self-driving engine · air-gapped capable, on your rack
DIAG RECOMMEND SIMULATE HITL ACT VERIFY LEARN
No SaaS. No external LLM. No egress.
↓ runs on the substrate engineered for it
The substrate

AnaRack · the heterogeneous AI rack

Decoupled CPU / GPU New memory tier Compute ⟂ Storage Standards-based · open On-prem · edge · IaaS
AnaROS also runs alone on your existing brownfield hardware — AnaRack is where the runtime and the substrate are engineered cohesively as one system.
FIGURE · SELF-DRIVING OPERATION · AIR-GAPPED PIPELINE GOVERNOR
Telemetry sees. Governor decides. Runtime acts. No dashboard-only observability tool can copy this — because none of them own the runtime.
Chapter 04 · Who it's for

For teams who need to hold the moat — inside the boundary.

Your data is the moat. Your tuned models are your core intelligence. Anything that leaves your perimeter needs attention. AnaRack keeps the substrate in your rack. AnaROS keeps the runtime — telemetry, decisions, the whole operational loop — on that rack. No SaaS pane. No external LLM in the loop. The moat stays inside the boundary.

Hyperscalers

You already own the substrate. Now govern the pipeline that runs on it.

Bring AnaROS to the racks you already build. Pipeline Governor and self-driving loop on your fabric. Sovereign zones, air-gapped clusters — telemetry never leaves.

Neoclouds

Tenant data stays in the rack. Not on someone else's dashboard.

AnaROS governs placement and behavior on your GPUs — placement decisions with evidence, tenant isolation you can prove, no SaaS observability layer taking your telemetry off-net.

Fortune 500

Enterprise AI without shipping your data — or your models — to a vendor cloud.

Drop AnaROS on your existing rack today. Pipeline visibility, workload governance, agent guardrails — no outbound telemetry stream, no rewrite. Land AnaRack under it when the substrate matters.

Global 2000 · Sovereign

The workload cannot leave the perimeter. Neither can the model — nor the runtime.

Air-gapped self-driving operation on AnaRack + AnaROS. The Pipeline Governor decides on your rack — no external LLM in the loop. Everything local.

Deployment envelope
On-prem Edge IaaS (GPUaaS) Sovereign / air-gapped Hybrid multi-cloud
The Anavec atlas

Four pages. One system. The whole picture.

Start at the rack. Walk to the runtime that governs it. See the workloads it lands. Choose your adoption path. Read in any order — every page is self-contained, and every page connects back to the same thing: rack + OS as one system.

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CHAPTER 01 · ANARACK Live

AnaRack — the heterogeneous Rack-as-a-System.

The hardware story. Open and heterogeneous across every layer — networking, CPU, multi-generation GPUs, memory, storage. Standards-based, no vendor lock-in. A new memory tier for memory-bound acceleration. Compute disaggregated from storage — data ready for AI before the GPU asks.

heterogeneous · open multi-generation GPUs new memory tier compute ⟂ storage
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CHAPTER 02 · ANAROS Live

AnaROS — the AI-native runtime and Pipeline Governor.

The runtime story. Above the device OS, below the agent. Pipeline Governor decides, self-driving operation acts — air-gapped, on your rack. Two surfaces on one backend: Telemetry (visibility) sees, Behavior (governance + guardrails) constrains. Five engines — Pipeline contracts, Placement engine, Live model, Stage telemetry, Change control — power the whole loop. Drops in on your existing stack. No SaaS.

Pipeline Governor self-driving · air-gapped two surfaces · one backend drops in · no rewrites
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CHAPTER 03 · USE CASES Live

Use cases — workloads we land.

The customer story. Real workloads from design partners — RAG retrieval, gigapixel inspection, multi-tenant serving, agentic pipelines. What changed when CPU:GPU ratio became a policy, and the pipeline governor took over.

RAG · vector inspection multi-tenant agentic
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CHAPTER 04 · ADOPTION Live

Adoption — how you get here.

The path story. Three ways to start: AnaROS-on-your-hardware (software-first), AnaROS-on-your-cloud (GPUaaS), or AnaROS-on-AnaRack (Anavec rack). One governance contract throughout. Step up or step back at any time.

software-first hybrid · GPUaaS full platform removable
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