OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI are collaborating to advance European sovereign AI infrastructure by combining OpenNebula’s open, vendor-neutral cloud and edge orchestration capabilities with Axelera AI’s inference acceleration technology.

Building on the existing integration of Axelera AI’s Metis® AI Processing Units (AIPUs) into OpenNebula, the collaboration will extend to the evaluation of Axelera AI’s Europa® products through the Europa Early Access Program (EAP).

Extending AI Acceleration to Enterprise Workloads

OpenNebula has integrated Axelera AI’s Metis accelerators using PCI passthrough, enabling AI inference workloads to run on dedicated accelerators within virtualized, multi-tenant infrastructure. The collaboration will include further validation and certification of Metis with PCI passthrough and KVM.

Building on this work, the companies will evaluate Axelera AI’s Europa products for generative AI and large language model workloads, including potential integration with vLLM and enterprise LLM serving frameworks.

Advancing an Open European AI Ecosystem

The collaboration will also explore reference architectures combining open source infrastructure orchestration with European AI acceleration technologies, particularly for AI Factory and AI Gigafactory deployments.

By bringing these technologies together, OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI aim to expand the options available to organizations building sovereign AI infrastructure, with greater flexibility in how they deploy and manage AI workloads.

For more details, read the full announcement.