XFLOPS/Flame Overview

Welcome to the XFLOPS! Learn about Flame, an distributed engine for AI Agents and Quant.

Welcome to XFLOPS!

XFLOPS is a vibrant community focused on empowering members to build serverless platforms for elastic workloads, including AI/Agent systems, Big Data, and quantitative computing. Every project within XFLOPS is founded on decades of expertise in both batch and elastic workload management, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.

What’s Flame

Flame is a distributed engine for AI Agents and Quant, designed to handle the most demanding elastic workloads with unprecedented efficiency and scalability.

Key Features of Flame

  • Elastic: Scale the workloads dynamically based on demand with auto-scaling capabilities and resource optimization.
  • Security: Session-based authentication and authorization for secure access to your elastic workloads which are running in microVMs, e.g. AI agents, Quant, etc.
  • Cost Effective: Advanced scheduling algorithms that optimize resource utilization and workload distribution across the infrastructure.
  • Heterogeneous: Support for various hardware configurations including GPUs, TPUs, and specialized accelerators for elastic workloads.
  • High Performance: Optimized for maximum throughput and performance, ensuring your elastic workloads run at peak efficiency.
  • Cloud Native: Designed by Cloud Native architecture, make it possible to be deployed on any cloud platform or on-premise.

Quick Start

If you’re ready to dive in immediately, here’s a quick overview of what you’ll need:

  1. Prerequisites: Docker, Docker Compose and basic familiarity with container orchestration
  2. Installation: Deploy Flame using docker compose for developer environment
  3. Configuration: Set up your first AI workload configuration
  4. Deployment: Launch your first distributed AI workload

Architecture Overview

Flame follows a microservices architecture designed for cloud-native environments:

Getting Help

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Whether it’s improving documentation, reporting bugs, or contributing code, every contribution helps make Flame better for everyone.

  • Documentation: Submit pull requests to improve our docs
  • Code: Contribute to the Flame project
  • Feedback: Share your experiences and suggestions

What’s Next?

Ready to get started? We recommend beginning with the Getting Started guide, which will walk you through your first Flame deployment.

If you have specific use cases in mind, check out our Use Cases section to see examples of how others are using Flame in production.

Last updated: September 23, 2025