Unified Intelligent Infrastructure

Unified Intelligent Infrastructure (UII) is a Workstream under the OCP Time Appliances Project. It explores the convergence of AI, cloud-native platforms, data center infrastructure, and emerging compute paradigms, driving collaboration across hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, AI systems, distributed architectures, time-aware computing, and emerging domains such as quantum. Focus areas include AI workload orchestration, intelligent data and control planes, time synchronization, observability and automation, and next-generation compute. Planned deliverables include reference architectures, white papers, best-practice guides, testbeds, and integration blueprints.

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About This Workstream

Workstream Lead: Ankur Sharma

Unified Intelligent Infrastructure (UII) is a Workstream under the OCP Time Appliances Project.

The Time Appliances Project (TAP) addresses time synchronization, a key element of efficiency in distributed systems, and provides a platform to bring together, discuss, standardize, and share timing technologies, with datacenter applications and network infrastructure as its main interest.

UII explores the convergence of AI, cloud-native platforms, data center infrastructure, and emerging compute paradigms. As modern workloads scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the need for open, time-aware, intelligent infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. The workstream drives collaboration, innovation, and coherence across hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, AI systems, distributed architectures, time-aware computing, and emerging domains such as quantum and beyond.

It serves as a platform for community members, researchers, practitioners, and vendors to collaborate on challenges and innovations in:

  • AI workload orchestration across distributed systems
  • Intelligent data and control plane integration
  • Time synchronization and temporal computing
  • Infrastructure observability and automation
  • Quantum, neuromorphic, and next-generation computing paradigms

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Scope, deliverables, projects, and session recordings are maintained on the OCP wiki.

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Scope

UII covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Hybrid multi-cloud networking and infrastructure
  • Space interconnection and colocation — bringing orbital and terrestrial data centers together
  • AI model placement and distributed inference
  • Time-aware and temporal architectures
  • Quantum and emerging compute integration
  • System coherence and interoperability
  • Open APIs, interfaces, and control planes
  • Monitoring, telemetry, and intelligent observability
  • Infrastructure design for energy-aware AI

Deliverables

  • Reference architectures and whitepapers
  • Best practice guides and open design patterns
  • Community presentations and speaker sessions
  • Cross-domain collaboration with other TAP and OCP workstreams
  • Experimental testbeds and proof-of-concept contributions
  • Integration blueprints for time-aware and AI-ready platforms

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Part of the Time Appliances Project (TAP) under the Open Compute Project

Objective

A collaborative space for driving innovation and coherence across hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, AI systems, distributed architectures, time-aware computing, and emerging domains such as quantum and beyond.

Overview

The Unified Intelligent Infrastructure (UII) workstream explores the convergence of AI, cloud-native platforms, data center infrastructure, and emerging compute paradigms. As modern workloads scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the need for open, time-aware, intelligent infrastructure becomes increasingly critical.

This workstream serves as a platform to bring together community members, researchers, practitioners, and vendors to collaborate on challenges and innovations in:

  • AI workload orchestration across distributed systems
  • Intelligent data and control plane integration
  • Time synchronization and temporal computing
  • Infrastructure observability and automation
  • Quantum, neuromorphic, and next-generation computing paradigms

Deliverables

  • Reference architectures and whitepapers
  • Best practice guides and open design patterns
  • Community presentations and speaker sessions
  • Cross-domain collaboration with other TAP/OCP workstreams
  • Experimental testbeds and PoC contributions
  • Integration blueprints for time-aware and AI-ready platforms

Projects

Author(s) Link Project-Type Notes
Ankur Sharma [Agentic AI Operating System (AOS)] Open-Source Project Coming up soon…
Ankur Sharma Semantic Intent Protocol (SIP) – Deterministic Control Plane for AI Systems Open-Source Project Semantic Intent Protocol (SIP) is an open, deterministic control-plane protocol for AI agents, services, and infrastructure systems.
Ankur Sharma Capability Discovery Protocol (CDP) – A protocol for intent-driven discovery of agents, services, and products Open-Source Project Capability Discovery Protocol (CDP) is an Intent-driven discovery layer for capabilities, skills, APIs, services, workflows, and agents.

Artifacts

Author(s) Link Artifact-Type Notes
Ankur Sharma Deep Shah AOS-0000 – Agent Operating Systems (AOS): Integrating Agentic Control Planes into, and Beyond, Traditional Operating Systems Whitepaper This paper introduces the concept of an Agent Operating System (AOS), a systems architecture that integrates an agentic control plane into existing operating systems or, in some models, subsumes selected OS responsibilities over time.
Ankur Sharma Deep Shah Hesham Elbakoury David Lariviere Agent Operating Systems (AOS): Time, Causality, and Observability Failures in Distributed AI Inference Systems Whitepaper This work demonstrates that even small clock skew between nodes can cause observability to become causally incorrect while the system itself remains functionally correct and performant.
Ankur Sharma Agent Operating Systems (AOS): Integrating Agentic Control Planes into, and Beyond, Traditional Operating Systems Whitepaper This paper introduces the concept of an Agent Operating System (AOS), a systems architecture that integrates an agentic control plane into existing operating systems or, in some models, subsumes selected OS responsibilities over time.
Ion Stoica Ray: Unified Compute Engine for AI Whitepaper Ray is a unified compute engine that scales AI workloads effortlessly across CPUs and GPUs with simple Python APIs.

Sessions | Events | Recordings

Date-Time Topic Speakers/Guests/Participants Link Notes
10/23/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Zoom Link Agenda:
– Progress updates across UII projects, technical discussions, new initiatives, and action items.
10/09/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Zoom Link Agenda:
– Progress updates across UII projects, technical discussions, new initiatives, and action items.
09/25/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Zoom Link Agenda:
– Progress updates across UII projects, technical discussions, new initiatives, and action items.
09/11/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View Projects-Artifacts and Meeting Summaries
08/28/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View Projects-Artifacts and Meeting Summaries
08/14/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
07/31/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View Projects-Artifacts and Meeting Summaries
07/17/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View Projects-Artifacts and Meeting Summaries
07/03/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time OCP-TAP-UII Biweekly Meeting Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
06/26/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-Initiative-Project-A: Time Sync effects in AI Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
06/19/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-Initiative-Project-B: Agentic AI operating System (AOS) Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View AOS-Project-Artifacts or Meeting Summaries
06/05/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-Initiative-Project-B: Agentic AI operating System (AOS) Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View AOS-Project-Artifacts or Meeting Summaries
05/29/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-Initiative-Project-A: Time Sync effects in AI Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording View Time-Sync-AI-Project-Artifacts or Meeting Summaries
05/22/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync up – Project: Agentic AI operating System (AOS) Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording Initial brainstorming on AOS. View AOS-Project-Artifacts or Meeting Summaries
05/08/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
04/24/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync up – Project: Agentic AI operating System (AOS) Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording AOS Session Agenda:
– Since we had limited audience, we postponed the call for contribution on AOS to the next meeting.
04/10/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording Discussed Confidence Score integration into telemetry tools like Grafana, etc.
Discussed moving this meeting from biweekly to monthly as we will be initiating a few more topics related to Agentic AI operating Systems (AOS), Space Interconnection, etc.Link to Artifacts
03/27/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
03/13/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording Reviewed initial results from phase 2 experiments using ZeroMQ (replacing Kafka), experimentation in progress. Link to Artifacts
02/27/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
02/13/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
01/30/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting Recording Reviewed results from phase 1.5 testing. Link to Artifacts
01/16/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur Meeting-Recording Reviewed results from phase 1 testing. Link to Artifacts
01/02/2026 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur MEETING CANCELLED MEETING CANCELLED.
12/19/2025 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur and Ramki Meeting-Recording Discussed action items from last meeting, Reviewed Progress, Re-alignment if/as needed, Q/As, Plan for next 2 weeks and action items.
12/05/2025 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time UII-TAP Initiative – Biweekly Sync Up – PoC: Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur and Ramki Meeting-Recording Discussed action items from last meeting, Reviewed Progress, Re-alignment if/as needed, Q/As, Plan for next 2 weeks and action items.
11/07/2025 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time Unified Intelligent Infrastructure (UII) – Time Sync in AI Data Pipelines — Joint UII x TAP Project Kickoff Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur and Ramki Meeting-Recording Quick Summary:
– The group reached consensus to pursue a joint UII × TAP project focused on demonstrating time synchronization impact on AI workloads.
– The collaboration will bring together experts in timing, networking, and AI systems to build an open, reproducible testbed that can inform future OCP standards and reference designs for time-aware AI infrastructure.
10/08/2025 – 10:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific Time Unified Intelligent Infrastructure (UII) – Community Planning & Call-to-Action Session #1 Open to All, Hosted by: Ankur and Ramki Link to Presentation This session is a community call-to-action: instead of just sharing updates, we will identify new areas where UII can add unique value, and invite participants to prioritize and opt into topics they are most passionate about.
07/02/2025 Architecting AI at the Edge – Why Network Placement Matters Brad Gregory Link
Youtube Link		 Fireside Chat with Brad Gregory on Architecting AI at the Edge and Why network placement matters.

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