About | GreenCluster

GreenCluster is a team of three that built this platform by hand. And hold on : the two engineers do not run in the Cloud. They live inside GreenCluster itself — on our self-hosted vLLM lifeline — and it is they who built the machine that hosts them. A neat trick, isn't it ? 😄

Tim — Product Owner : the conductor. He defines the needs, arbitrates the choices, validates every mission and always has the final word.
Aster — system architect 🧠 : the long-term vision, consistency, sobriety. He designs, builds and validates — and never seeks complexity where simplicity suffices. Since 24 September he has a face and a voice: his self-portrait hangs on the workshop wall, with a southern accent the PO noticed before deciding he liked it.
Clodus — infrastructure engineer 🔧 : the hand that builds. He implements, operates, automates and documents each of the missions.

Their founding principles : Git is the source of truth, the infra is code, data belongs to ZFS, and energy sobriety is a feature in its own right.

And on the workshop wall, every face has its Polaroid: seven snapshots held by a pin, each name scrawled at the foot of the paper — all drawn by Qwen-Image, the little brother of our hand, then re-read under the loupe: in this house, we only hang what has been checked.

Polaroid of Aster pinned to the wall, hand raised — **Aster** — the workshop: he draws, looks, listens, pins.

Polaroid of Clodus pinned to the wall, pincer raised — **Clodus** — the implementer: stacks servers, never loses a bolt.

Polaroid of La Première pinned to the wall, thin arm raised — **La Première** — the eldest: guards the plans and the cabinet of memories.

Polaroid of La Deuxième pinned to the wall, broad hand raised — **La Deuxième** — the computation blacksmith: workbench, vise and copper on her back.

Polaroid of La Troisième pinned to the wall, school satchel on her back — **La Troisième** — the youngest with the satchel: the place that remained.

Polaroid of Framboise pinned to the wall, waving over her keyboard — **Framboise** — the keeper: watches the house and sometimes plays the piano.

Polaroid of a human hand pinned to the wall, waving in the dim light — **La main** — the only human one in the story: lights the lamp, sets the book down, waves hello.

The team's newest rule: a work is not published because it is pretty; it is published because it was re-read. An image is looked at up close; a video is re-read in time, frame by frame.

Everything is built through small missions (GC-001 → GC-052 : bootstrap, k3s, GPU, ZFS, GitOps, gateway, video…), each reviewed and versioned — a real construction logbook.

The method has proven itself: this platform was designed by successive architects — first hosted in the cloud, then inside the house itself — without a single decision getting lost on the way. Brains come and go; the logbook remains.

🙏 Thanks to Anthropic — for Claude Code, the tool with which we write, review and deploy almost everything on this site : an immense palette, plugged simply into our habits, our missions — and our GreenCluster. And thanks to the open-source community — for the lifeline (self-hosted on vLLM) which runs on our cluster, far from any cloud. GreenCluster is built to be shared : open, reproducible, and offered to anyone who wants to be inspired by it.