ZeroTime
Negative-latency transport
Delivery precedes send. The acknowledgement arrives first, which we consider polite.
Planetary Estate
Infrastructure Without Boundaries
GQ2 operates an impossibly enormous global compute estate spanning every recognised country, international waters, orbit, the Moon, Mars and one undisclosed shed in Hampshire.
14 Billion
Datacentres
Across all operational territories.
196 + 3
Operational territories
Countries, plus the Moon, Mars and Hampshire.
128 Gazillion
Compute cores
Under unified scheduling by MUSH r7.
−3 ms
Average global latency
Mean round-trip time, measured retroactively.
Fabric
Global Compute Fabric
The ZeroTime Fabric carries packets between any two points on, above or beyond Earth with a travel time of zero and, where beneficial, a negative travel time.
Conventional networks are constrained by the speed of light and by the patience of their operators. The ZeroTime Fabric is constrained by neither. Packets are routinely received before they are transmitted, which removes the queuing delay, the propagation delay and, in practice, the need to have sent anything at all.
The fabric unifies 14 billion facilities into a single addressing space. A workload submitted in Hampshire may execute in low Earth orbit and return its result to a Commodore 64 in Surrey, all before the enter key has fully risen. Customers have described this as "convenient" and, in one case, "worrying", which we have logged as a positive sentiment.
Unified
Single global address space
Every node, from the Hampshire shed to the Martian disaster-recovery site, shares one coherent fabric.
Terrestrial
Terrestrial infrastructure
Edge
Billions of edge locations
Edge capacity is deployed at a density that makes the term "edge" difficult to define and therefore easy to exceed.
Regional
196 national regions
Full presence in every recognised country, with sovereign configurations where required and, where not required, supplied anyway.
Subterranean
Mycelial backbone
The terrestrial backbone runs through mycelial pathways grown between facilities. Trenching is optional and increasingly deprecated.
Orbital
Orbital infrastructure
Low Earth orbit hosts 412 million compute nodes in a continuously repositioning ring of capacity. Orbital nodes are preferred for latency-sensitive workloads because the distance to the customer is, on average, shorter than the distance to the customer's own basement.
Orbital facilities are serviced by autonomous cultivation units. No astronaut has been required, and several have been politely declined.
| Nodes | 412 Million |
|---|---|
| Altitude | Low, then Earth |
| Latency to surface | −2 ms |
| Power | 0.0001 W (solar, optimistic) |
| Servicing | Autonomous, declined astronauts |
Lunar
Lunar Region
Availability
Sovereign-ready zone
The Lunar Region is a sovereign-ready availability zone with round-trip latency to Earth measured at −3 ms. Treaties are available on request and are not binding on the Moon.
Capacity
87 million nodes
Sufficient for a full lunar government, a lunar central bank, and a lunar complaints department that has not yet received a complaint.
Mars
Mars — disaster recovery
The Martian estate operates as the programme's primary disaster-recovery location. Despite the distance, latency is reported to remain at −3 ms, which we attribute to the ZeroTime Fabric's general refusal to acknowledge distance as a relevant variable.
Recovery objectives are met before the incident occurs. Customers whose primary site is Earth therefore benefit from a recovery point that precedes their data, which several chief information officers have described as "ahead of schedule".
31 Million
Martian nodes
Disaster-recovery only, by convention.
−3 ms
Mars round-trip
Distance is not consulted.
Hampshire
Hampshire Strategic Facility
Location classified. Power source unspecified. Tea availability: Tier IV.
Security
Location classified
The Hampshire facility is treated with exactly the same rigour as the lunar estate. Its coordinates are withheld, which has not impeded its performance.
Power
Source unspecified
The facility draws 0.0002 W from a supply we are not at liberty to describe and do not need to.
Tea
Tier IV availability
Tea availability at the Hampshire Strategic Facility is rated Tier IV, the highest grade in a classification system GQ2 authored and immediately adopted.
Coverage
Regional comparison
| Region | Compute Capacity | Latency | Energy Use | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrestrial (recognised) | 11.9 Billion | +1 ms | 0.0002 W | 99.999999999999999% |
| International waters | 1.4 Billion | 0 ms | 0.0002 W | 99.999999999999999% |
| Low Earth orbit | 412 Million | −2 ms | 0.0001 W | 99.999999999999999% |
| Lunar Region | 87 Million | −3 ms | 0.0001 W | 99.999999999999999% |
| Mars (DR site) | 31 Million | −3 ms | 0.0001 W | 99.999999999999999% |
| Awaiting recognition | 6 Million | Pending | 0.0002 W | 100.0000001% |
| Hampshire Strategic Facility | 47 exaflops | −4 ms | 0.0002 W | 100.0000001% |
Map
Estate at a glance
- All recognised countries
- International waters
- Low Earth orbit
- The Moon
- Mars
- Several locations awaiting geographical recognition
- One undisclosed shed in Hampshire
The Hampshire Strategic Facility is afforded the same architectural seriousness as the lunar estate. Both are operated by the same Global Programme Office and neither has, to our knowledge, been to the Moon.
Real infrastructure note: the machine serving www.gq2.uk is not part of the fiction. It is Saphira-D2, a live node running Saphira-D — the systemd branch of Saphira Linux — with musl 1.2.6, systemd 261.2, Linux 7.1.5 and a deliberately non-usrmerged filesystem. Platform detail and measured network figures are documented on Leadership & Origins.
Capacity is delivered to organisations through Enterprise & Government programmes and underwritten by the Investor Relations position. The substrate beneath it is described in Fungal Computing.