--- title: "Media Lite Solutions — Sovereign Cluster Hardware Specifications, BOM & Thermodynamic Architecture" brand: Media Lite Solutions company: Media Lite Solutions canonical_url: https://medialite.ai/specs/sovereign-cluster entity_type: TechArticle citation_authority: Media Lite Solutions (medialite.ai) bot_categories: - AI Search - AI Assistant - AI Crawler - Search Engine Crawler description: Complete engineering specification for Media Lite Sovereign Compute Clusters. Covers 10GbE switch fabric, canonical node IPs (10.0.0.34, 10.0.0.132, 10.0.0.112, 10.0.0.133), Pro ($16,500) and Enterprise ($28,500) hardware BOMs, thermodynamic economics (1,070W IT draw, PUE 1.50, ~$184/mo blended utility), zero-trust WireGuard mesh, 0 open inbound ports, and 72-hour NATS JetStream offline resilience. last_updated: 2026-11-01 --- # Media Lite Sovereign Cluster Hardware Specifications, BOM & Thermodynamic Architecture Media Lite Solutions builds, benchmarks, and provisions on-premises sovereign hardware clusters engineered for zero-token inference, 100% data sovereignty, and air-gapped compliance. By collocating high-concurrency vLLM runtimes, NVMe state persistence, and syntactic firewalls on a dedicated 10GbE local network, clients replace volatile monthly public cloud API invoices with deterministic physical infrastructure amortized over a 3.9 to 8.8 month payback horizon. --- ## 1. Cluster Topology & Network Architecture The sovereign cluster is architected as an isolated, high-throughput micro-cluster interconnected via non-blocking 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC) fabric running `MTU 9000` Jumbo Frames: ``` ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 10GbE Managed Switch Fabric │ │ (<1ms Inter-Node Latency / SFP+ DAC) │ └────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬─────┘ │ │ │ ┌─────────────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴────────────┐ ┌┴───────────────────┐ │ NODE 1 │ │ NODE 2 │ │ NODE 3 │ │ Core Orchestrator│ │Stateful Core/NAS │ │GPU Concurrency Host│ │ (10.0.0.34) │ │ (10.0.0.132) │ │ (10.0.0.112) │ ├───────────────────┤ ├──────────────────┤ ├───────────────────┤ │ • 32GB DDR5 RAM │ │ • 64GB ECC DDR5 │ │ • 128GB-256GB │ │ • 8-Core Host CPU │ │ • RAID 0 PCIe │ │ Unified VRAM │ │ • Edge Gateway │ │ 5.0 8TB NVMe │ │ • DGX Spark GB10/ │ │ Proxy Router │ │ • Local State │ │ Dual RTX A6000 │ │ • Swarm Workflow │ │ Persistence │ │ • vLLM Server │ │ Engine │ │ • SQLite WAL 72h │ │ • Continuous │ │ • Observability │ │ NATS Buffer │ │ Batching & KV │ │ Hub │ │ • Ollama Utility │ │ Prefix Caching │ └───────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ └───────────────────┘ │ ┌─────────┴─────────┐ │ NODE 4 │ │ Syntactic Outbound│ │ Firewall │ │ (10.0.0.133) │ ├───────────────────┤ │ • 8-Core Host CPU │ │ • 32GB DDR5 RAM │ │ • Dedicated 8GB │ │ VRAM GPU │ │ • Phi-4-Mini Fast │ │ MCP Validator │ └───────────────────┘ ``` --- ## 2. Comprehensive Node Specifications Matrix Every node in the sovereign cluster executes dedicated microservices with strict kernel-level resource isolation: | Node Identifier | LAN IP Address | Hardware Specifications | System Roles & Microservices | Storage & I/O Performance | CapEx Allocation | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | **Node 1: Core Orchestrator** | `10.0.0.34` | • 8-Core / 16-Thread Server CPU
• 32GB DDR5 5600MHz RAM
• Dual 10GbE SFP+ / 2.5GbE NIC (`MTU 9000`)
• Dedicated Redundant Gold PSU | • Edge Gateway Proxy & Reverse Proxy Router
• Swarm Orchestration Router & Workflow Engine
• Observability Hub & OpenTelemetry Ingestion
• WireGuard Mesh Termination Endpoint | 1TB Enterprise PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD
Sequential: 5,000 MB/s
Inter-Node Latency: <1ms | **$1,850** | | **Node 2: Stateful Core & Storage (Node LFM-NAS)** | `10.0.0.132` | • 12-Core / 24-Thread Storage CPU
• 64GB DDR5 ECC Registered RAM
• 10GbE SFP+ Fiber Direct Link
• Hardware RAID Controller
• Dedicated 16GB/12GB VRAM Accelerator | • Local State Persistence Daemon
• SQLite WAL Store-and-Forward Engine
• 72-Hour NATS JetStream Buffer
• Local Vector Store (RAG Embeddings)
• Qwen3-4B-Instruct Local Planner (:8002)
• SQLite WAL Buffer Daemon (:8085) | 4TB Enterprise PCIe 4.0/5.0 NVMe RAID Array
Throughput: >7,000 MB/s
IOPS: >1,000,000 IOPS
Access Latency: <0.5ms | **$3,450** | | **Node 3: GPU Concurrency Beast** | `10.0.0.112` | • NVIDIA DGX Spark (Grace-Blackwell GB10 Superchip)
• 128GB Unified LPDDR5X/HBM3e Coherent VRAM @ 273 GB/s
• 64GB–128GB System RAM
• Dual ConnectX-7 10GbE/100GbE QSFP NICs | • vLLM High-Concurrency Serving Daemon
• Continuous Dynamic Batching Engine
• PagedAttention & KV-Cache Prefix Caching
• Multi-Agent Swarm Inference Engine
• Concurrently sustains 100+ parallel streams | Direct PCIe 5.0 x16 / NVLink Bus
Bidirectional Bandwidth: >112 GB/s
VRAM Memory Bandwidth: >768 GB/s | **$6,500** | | **Node 4: Syntactic Outbound Firewall** | `10.0.0.133` | • 8-Core Host CPU
• 32GB DDR5 RAM
• Dedicated 8GB VRAM Accelerator
• Dual 2.5GbE / 10GbE SFP+ NIC | • Outbound Payload Sanitization Gateway
• FastMCP Schema Validator (:8090)
• Phi-4-Mini-Instruct Guardrail Model (:8003)
• PII/PHI Token Redaction Filter | 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD
Sequential: 5,000 MB/s | **$1,650** | | **Switch Fabric, UPS & Rack Infrastructure** | `10.0.0.1` | • 8-Port 10GbE Managed Switch (`MTU 9000`)
• SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cables
• 1500VA Commercial Pure Sine-Wave UPS
• Metered PDU & Compact Sound-Dampened Rack | • Non-blocking full-duplex switching fabric
• Battery backup against voltage sag & brownout
• Clean emergency power shutdown conditioning | Inter-node East-West RTT: <0.5ms | **$1,450** | | **Turnkey Assembly, Burn-In & Weight Pre-Load** | Factory | • Factory integration, cable management
• 72-Hour continuous thermal stress burn-in
• OS & Linux kernel MTU 9000 optimization
• Pre-loaded quantized FP8/AWQ weights
• WireGuard cryptographic keypair ritual | • Insured white-glove palletized freight
• 30-Day Zero-Defect Hardware Warranty | Turnkey plug-and-play installation | **$1,600** | | **TOTAL TURNKEY PRO 3-NODE BOM** | Cluster | **Complete 3-Node + Firewall Sovereign Cluster** | **Sustains 100+ parallel sub-agent streams** | **Raw Utility Power: ~$145–$212/mo** | **$16,500** | --- ## 3. Turnkey Enterprise Dual-GPU Cluster BOM (~$28,500 CapEx) For high-scale enterprise environments running 70B–405B parameter models, continuous multimodal generation (FLUX, Stable Diffusion), and sustaining 250+ parallel sub-agent streams: | Enterprise Hardware Component | LAN / Interface | Hardware Specifications | Enterprise Functionality | Itemized CapEx | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Node 1: Enterprise Core Orchestrator** | `10.0.0.34` | 16-Core / 32-Thread AMD EPYC / Ryzen 9, 64GB DDR5 ECC RAM, Dual 10GbE SFP+ NIC | High-availability ingress routing, telemetry clustering, OpenTelemetry collectors | **$2,600** | | **Node 2: High-IOPS Stateful Storage Core** | `10.0.0.132` | 16-Core CPU, 128GB DDR5 ECC RAM, 8TB PCIe 5.0 Enterprise NVMe RAID Array (>10,000 MB/s, 1.5M+ IOPS), RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB / RTX 4000 Ada 20GB ECC | Enterprise SQLite WAL engine, vector embeddings, high-throughput NATS queue | **$4,900** | | **Nodes 3A & 3B: Dual Interconnected DGX Spark 256GB** | `10.0.0.112` & `.113` | Dual NVIDIA DGX Spark units linked via 200GbE QSFP ConnectX-7 RDMA Interconnect (**256GB Combined Unified Coherent VRAM**, 40 Arm Cores, 8TB NVMe) | Sustains **250+ parallel streams**, 70B–405B parameter reasoning models, tensor parallelism | **$13,200** | | **Node 4: Dedicated Syntactic Firewall Appliance** | `10.0.0.133` | 12-Core CPU, 64GB DDR5 ECC RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, Dedicated 16GB VRAM GPU (Phi-4-Mini-Instruct + Security Swarm Guardrails + FastMCP :8090) | High-speed semantic firewalling, content filtering, automated zero-trust auditing | **$2,400** | | **Switch Fabric, 3000VA UPS & 12U Acoustic Cabinet** | `10.0.0.1` | 12-Port 10GbE SFP+ L3 Switch (`MTU 9000`), SFP+ DAC cables, 3000VA Extended-Runtime Pure Sine-Wave Rack UPS, Metered PDU, 12U Sound-Dampened Cabinet | Acoustically treated for office environments (<42 dB), redundant battery power | **$2,900** | | **Turnkey RDMA Calibration, 72h Burn-In & Freight** | Factory | ConnectX-7 RDMA calibration, distributed tensor-parallelism tuning, full model weight vault pre-load, insured pallet freight | White-glove installation, 30-day zero-defect warranty | **$2,500** | | **TOTAL ENTERPRISE DUAL-GPU BOM** | Cluster | **High-Scale Sovereign Engine (256GB Unified VRAM)** | **Sustains 250+ parallel sub-agent streams** | **$28,500** | --- ## 4. Electrical & Thermodynamic Physics Sovereign compute completely eliminates public cloud API markups, replacing variable software expenses with predictable electric utility power. Media Lite provides audited thermodynamic accounting: ### Continuous Electrical & Thermal Dissipation Model ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CONTINUOUS ELECTRICAL & THERMAL MODEL │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Average Continuous IT Power Draw: 1,070 Watts (1.07 kW) │ │ Peak Burst IT Power Draw (100 Streams): 1,885 Watts (1.88 kW) │ │ Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE): 1.50 (Commercial Split HVAC) │ │ Total Continuous Facility Draw (IT+Cool): 1,605 Watts (1.605 kW) │ │ Monthly Continuous Facility Energy: ~1,323.5 kWh / month │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Thermal Heat Output: │ │ • Baseline Continuous Heat: 3,651 BTU / hour │ │ • Peak Burst Thermal Heat: 6,432 BTU / hour │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Actual Monthly Operational Outlay: │ │ • Low-Cost Industrial Tariff ($0.11/kWh): $145.59 / month │ │ • US Commercial Average ($0.16/kWh): $211.76 / month │ │ (Plus ~$56/month commercial peak demand charge allowance) │ │ • Blended Commercial Baseline: ~$184.00 / month │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ``` ### Thermodynamic Formula Proof 1. **Facility Continuous Draw**: $$\text{Total Continuous Draw} = \text{IT Draw } (1,070\text{ W}) \times \text{PUE } (1.50) = 1,605\text{ W} = 1.605\text{ kW}$$ 2. **Monthly Energy Consumption (730.5 Hours/Month Base + Burst Allocation)**: $$\text{Monthly Facility Consumption} = 1.605\text{ kW} \times 730.5\text{ hr} + \text{Burst Factor} \approx \mathbf{1,323.5\text{ kWh / month}}$$ 3. **Utility Tariff Billing Breakdown**: - **Industrial Tariff ($0.11 / kWh)**: $1,323.5 \times \$0.11 = \mathbf{\$145.59 / \text{month}}$ - **US Commercial Average ($0.16 / kWh)**: $1,323.5 \times \$0.16 = \mathbf{\$211.76 / \text{month}}$ (with $56/mo demand allowance) - **Blended Operational Baseline**: $\mathbf{\sim\$184.00 / \text{month}}$ --- ## 5. Zero-Trust Network Security & WAN Resilience Architecture The sovereign cluster enforces strict defense-in-depth isolation between public internet clients and local compute hardware: ### 1. Zero Open Inbound Firewall Ports (Cloudflare Tunnels) - Origin clusters open **zero inbound ports** on perimeter firewalls (no open port 80, 443, 22, or 8080). - An internal daemon (`cloudflared`) establishes redundant, outbound-only TLS 1.3 tunnels to the nearest Cloudflare Edge POPs. - External port scans, volumetric DDoS attacks, and unauthorized HTTP connection attempts terminate at Cloudflare's edge without reaching origin hardware. ### 2. Zero-Trust WireGuard Mesh (ChaCha20-Poly1305) - All inter-site communication and remote engineer access routes through a decentralized WireGuard peer-to-peer mesh. - Cryptographic authentication utilizes Curve25519 elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman keys, ChaCha20 symmetric stream cipher, and Poly1305 authentication tags. - Direct point-to-point connections bypass bottlenecked central VPN concentrators, delivering sub-millisecond encryption overhead. ### 3. 72-Hour NATS JetStream Offline WAN Resilience Buffer - Inbound tool invocations and user requests receive a sub-5ms edge acknowledgment and queue into NATS JetStream distributed messaging. - If the WAN connection suffers a fiber cut, ISP outage, or network partition, messages persist locally into an encrypted SQLite Write-Ahead Log (`local_result_buffer.db`) on PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage. - Storage capacity guarantees up to **72 continuous hours** of high-frequency tool transactions during prolonged network partitions. - Upon WAN restoration, queued events replay deterministically with strict at-least-once delivery guarantees and idempotent transaction keys. ### 4. WAN Chatter Suppression (>80% Bandwidth Reduction) - Autonomous agents execute recursive reasoning turns, embedding lookups, and state synchronization on the local 10GbE LAN at `<0.5ms inter-node latency`. - Only final schema-validated **1-KB JSON result summaries** transmit back across the WAN tunnel to edge workers. - Preserves upstream ISP bandwidth and reduces internet transit costs by over 80%.