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Notes on Starlight, edge AI, infrastructure, and the federal-grade software we ship.
Grace Blackwell at the edge: adding the Dell Pro Max GB10 to Starlight
Starlight now treats the Dell Pro Max with GB10, NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell developer system, as a first-class cluster node. The Blackwell GPU and the local models that run on it are now part of the platform — managed, governed, and secured the same way every other Starlight node is.
→Confidential compute, made simple
Confidential compute closes the third gap — data in use, the one most platforms leave unguarded. The capability has shipped on enormous amounts of hardware in the field and sits switched off because the on-ramp is too steep. Starlight detects it for you and turns it into a deployment decision rather than an infrastructure project.
Security·June 25, 2026·Mainsail security·7 min- Security→
What the 2026 post-quantum mandates require, and where Starlight already fits
This spring the federal government turned post-quantum cryptography from a planning topic into a set of dated obligations. The Department of War strategy and two White House executive orders together commit defense, the federal civilian estate, and their contractors to a migration that must be done by the end of 2031. Here is the short version of why the mandates matter and where Starlight already lines up.
Security·June 25, 2026·Mainsail security·6 min - Security→
Governed AI infrastructure requires more than visibility
AI is moving into operational environments where dashboards and reporting layers are not enough. Starlight pairs AccuKnox AI-SPM with KubeArmor runtime enforcement to govern AI workloads as operational infrastructure, even when connectivity does not hold.
Security·May 12, 2026·Mainsail security·6 min - Security→
Future of confidential infrastructure & why we're betting on Intel TDX
Most infrastructure security models assume that once an attacker gains physical access to a machine, compromise is inevitable. At the edge, where infrastructure often operates in physically exposed environments, that becomes a critical problem. Here's why we're betting on Intel TDX and what it means for confidential edge AI.
Security·May 10, 2026·Mainsail security·5 min - Security→
Starlight Secure
Federal infrastructure teams are squeezed between climbing VMware costs and the operational weight of Kubernetes. We built StarlightOS for the third option: an immutable, hardened platform smaller teams can run securely without a dedicated SRE bench.
Security·May 10, 2026·Mainsail security·5 min