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title: Fuzzball - Solution Brief
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### Solution Brief

## Fuzzball

**The turnkey platform for AI and high performance computing**

Fuzzball delivers AI deployment alongside traditional high performance computing, giving organizations finer control over their AI infrastructure. Deploy models on your own hardware, eliminate external dependencies, and maintain data sovereignty for regulated industries. Reproducible workflows run everywhere, integrating Kubernetes with HPC for performance at scale.

 

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#### Key highlights

## What is covered

![fuzzballguide](https://learn.ciq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/fuzzballguide.webp?width=971&height=997&name=fuzzballguide.webp "fuzzballguide")

![container](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/container.svg "container")

##### Built for Containers, Not Shell Scripts

Fuzzball ditches legacy HPC patterns in favor of container-native workflows that simplify setup, execution, and scaling.

![workflow](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/workflow.svg "workflow")

##### Workflow-Defined Everything

Jobs, volumes, ingress/egress, and compute resources are managed through human-readable workflows — no SSH or manual scripts required.

![monitor-check](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/monitor-check.svg "monitor-check")

##### Interfaces That Work for You

Manage HPC workloads via a modern web UI, portable CLI, or open API — all backed by the same orchestration system.

![rotate-ccw-key](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/rotate-ccw-key.svg "rotate-ccw-key")

##### Secure, Scalable, and Easy to Deploy

Includes secure secrets handling, fine-grained access control, CSI-based storage, and streamlined deployment into Kubernetes or bare metal.

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Step-by-Step to Deploy Fuzzball On-Prem

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[![Untitled-1](https://learn.ciq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled-1.png?width=2000&height=1228&name=Untitled-1.png "Untitled-1")](https://ciq.com/blog/ansible-import-vs-include-what-is-the-real-difference/)

This is Fuzzball | HPC 2.0 with Greg Kurtzer

Video

[![CIQ_blog_FB-Validated-1](https://learn.ciq.com/hubfs/CIQ_blog_FB-Validated-1.webp "CIQ_blog_FB-Validated-1")](https://ciq.com/blog/running-popular-hpc-and-ai-applications-on-fuzzball/)

Running Popular HPC & AI Applications on Fuzzball

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Fuzzball On-Prem 101 for HPC

Podcast

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