# The 2018 supercloud thesis

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-29
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:21 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=501s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-05-29-the-2018-supercloud-thesis-7zvb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The 2018 supercloud thesis," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network), 29 May 2024, 00:08:21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=501s

## Quote — verbatim

> We wrote a paper... the subsequent version, 2018, that introduced a notion of a supercloud — the Akash supercloud platform — where we said, well, you can decouple the control plane from the resource plane, where the resources could effectively be any cloud-capable compute.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Keynote history segment; Greg credits Cornell with formalizing the "supercloud" term and claims Akash's whitepaper articulated it in 2018.