Side Channel Cloud
AI infrastructure for your AI security and verification work. If bare metal isn't enough access for your research, then the side channel cloud is for you. And if you're working on open-source or non-profit projects your access is totally free.
AI infrastructure for your AI security and verification work. If bare metal isn't enough access for your research, then the side channel cloud is for you. Our AI cluster is instrumented with scopes, SDRs, TAPs, and more to enable your most ambitious hardware R&D.
And if you're working on open-source or non-profit work, you can get completely free access — already paid up for by research funders.
About Side Channel Cloud
We're a hardware R&D lab working on the 21st century's most important technologies. Whilst running our AI security and verification programmes, we were repeatedly bottlenecked by a lack of hands-on access to frontier AI accelerators (H100s, H200s, +). We've partnered with research funders to end this bottleneck. The side channel cloud is a research cluster instrumented to the gills with side-channel monitoring instruments — the perfect setup for researchers who need in-depth hardware access but can't host millions of dollars of compute with building-scale power requirements.
We have standard tray and rack setups, plus we can adapt setups to suit you. Need an FPGA added? Want an SDR in a different place? We can reconfigure the setup to meet your needs.
Power side channels.
We've instrumented the DC bus to our H200 GPUs. We've already used it to tell whether a GPU is running training or inference, and our collaborators have used it to identify which model is running on a GPU.
Network TAPs.
Many AI verification regimes rely on network TAPs — devices that let a verifier observe a prover's network packets. We can place TAPs anywhere on the network (speed permitting) to enable your work.
Software-defined radios.
Every accelerator leaks. Clocks, DRAM, voltage regulators and data buses all emit electromagnetic energy that correlates with the computation underneath — and unlike a power tap, EM emanations can often be captured without physical contact.
We position SDRs around the cluster, and we can move probes and antennas to wherever your experiment needs them.
Bare-metal access.
With deep system access you can run detailed system profiling. Want to research GPU hardware counters? We'll set up a machine with the access to enable it.
Other reconfigurable hardware.
We can drop programmable hardware into the data path wherever you need it — BlueField DPUs, FPGAs, SmartNICs, custom switches. Whatever the setup, we can accommodate it.