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Reweaving the fabric of computing

Many machines. One computer.

We're building Ephemeral to make all your computers, and everything plugged into them, work as one.

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The R&D lab today

Tethered.

A typical research or test bench runs on several computers, each talking to its own equipment. To run a sweep and acquire data, all of them have to be connected and coordinated. Often the lab PCs run Windows, the databases and compute run on Linux, and the analysis and reports happen on Mac laptops.

Linking them is possible, but it takes an expert. Most days, people walk between machines or work in one remote desktop at a time. Each tool works, but none makes the machines one computer.

With Ephemeral

Unbound.

Run Ephemeral on each machine and get one desktop. The instrument software, live data and analysis from every machine appear side by side, whatever operating system they run on, at any desk.

From the beginning, people use their existing apps with Ephemeral. They keep running where they are, next to their instruments.

SaaS moves your software onto someone else's computer. Ephemeral frees it from any one computer, including yours.

Where we start

We're starting in R&D labs, where every bench already runs on several machines. From there, we want to reach anywhere work spans more machines than one desktop can reach.

What we're building

One desktop for the whole bench.

Every machine runs Ephemeral, and every app shows up in one window. Pick an example.

A lab bench: a Linux PC runs the experiment script and drives the scope. During the sweep it calls the Windows PCs wired to the DAQ card and the microscope camera, which send their data back to it. With Ephemeral the whole run is on one desktop, and the analysis on the Mac laptop fills in while the data comes in.

Simple to set up

Install Ephemeral on each bench and personal machine. The vision: machines find each other and form the workspace, with no specialist setup.

One desktop

A Linux PC runs the experiment script, Windows PCs acquire data and image samples, and a Mac analyses on the fly. Ephemeral puts all their apps on one desktop.

Any desk, any machine

Follow the whole experiment and workflow from any desk, even your phone.

Four independent machines

One Ephemeral desktop.

Applications stay on their machines
ephemeral · one desktop

Tap a machine or swipe between applications. All four run on their original hosts.

Illustrations of the product we are building. The first version brings existing apps into one desktop, starting with Linux and Windows machines.

Where this leads · collaboration

One computer for a whole team, across labs and continents.

Invite a collaborator and you work in the same apps, on the same machines, wherever each of you sits. It is designed so your data travels directly between your machines, encrypted end to end, instead of being uploaded to a cloud.

Shared processes

Share a workspace in minutes

Drop the apps you want to share into a workspace and invite a colleague. They follow the run and use those apps from their own desk.

Shared hardware resources

Borrow a partner's compute power

When a job outgrows your machines, a partner can lend you theirs: a GPU cluster, a big workstation, spare servers. Your job moves over and keeps running.

Shared devices

Meet inside the workspace

Drop a webcam or microphone into the workspace and talk live, next to the experiment, without a separate meeting service.

Where we are

At the beginning.

We're getting ready to demo our first prototype. Next, we want to try early versions on real benches with a handful of labs and test teams, and let them shape what Ephemeral does first.

Further out, the same desktop can let AI agents help run a workflow across all your machines, always within the permissions you set.

Early testers

Labs and engineering teams whose work spans several machines and instruments, and who want to help define what Ephemeral does first.

Tell us about your setup

Advisors, investors and partners

People who think about where computing goes next and want to help build it.

Reach out to the team

Get in touch

Working across many machines? Let's talk.

A few lines about your setup is enough to start. For example:

  • How many machines are on your bench, and which operating systems?
  • Which instruments and programs run on them?
  • What takes the most time when you work across them?

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