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Applied research, on your cluster

Deep learning that runs on your DGX.

Transformers, GNNs, U-Nets, and physics-informed networks - shipped on proprietary data, on your air-gapped GPU estate, in two quarters. By a pod with published PhDs and the engineering discipline to take a paper to a working system.

Panel 01 - U-Net

3D seismic interpretation

Horizon agreement 87%

Panel 02 - GNN

ADMET property prediction

Node-importance heatmap

Panel 03 - PINN

Turbine thermo-mechanics

60x faster than FEM

Panel 04 - Transformer

SAR tile detection

Defence-adjacent

DGX-H100 - 8 GPU

Abu Dhabi - air-gapped

online
  • 87%

    Seismic horizon-picking agreement on proprietary subsurface volume

  • 60x

    PINN speed-up over legacy FEM solver - turbine thermo-mechanics

  • 2 / 12

    Academic prototypes reproducible on a fresh cluster in two weeks

  • 840 hr

    Median engineering hours to harden paper-quality prototype to production

The pre-print to production gap

A paper that works on a laptop is not a system that survives a board science committee.

Three failure modes account for nearly every stuck R&D programme we audit. Each is named, sampled, and addressed in the Reproducible Research Pack.

Irreproducible code

A repo of notebooks with hard-coded paths, missing seeds, and a private dataset reference. In our internal audit, 10 of 12 academic prototypes failed to reproduce end-to-end on a fresh cluster within two weeks.

Missing domain validation

A model with strong public-benchmark numbers and no comparison to the domain expert ground truth. The Brocode default is a structured SME sign-off on a hold-out set drawn from your operational data.

No on-prem deployment path

A working notebook on a researcher's laptop with no air-gapped serving plan. Brocode commissions the DGX, H100, or H200 estate inside your perimeter as part of every engagement.

Architectures we ship

Six architecture families. Each with a working reference in production today.

If your domain is not on this list, the call still happens. We have a curated specialist bench beyond the six below.

Transformer

What we've shipped

Transient-fault classifier on subsurface seismic signals, 8x improvement over baseline CNN.

GNN

What we've shipped

ADMET property prediction for medicinal-chemistry triage, integrated into the daily workflow.

U-Net

What we've shipped

3D seismic horizon picking on a proprietary subsurface volume, 87% agreement with senior interpreter.

PINN

What we've shipped

Transient turbine thermo-mechanics, 60x speed-up over legacy FEM at 4.2% MAE on validation.

Diffusion

What we've shipped

Synthetic SAR tile generation for limited-label training in defence-adjacent sensing.

RL

What we've shipped

Tokamak-style control loop for a sovereign energy research programme - simulator only, pre-publication.

The Research-to-Production Pod

One applied-research lead. Two senior DL engineers. One domain SME. One MLOps engineer.

The fixed shape. Every name in the proposal is on the contract. The applied-research lead carries a published PhD in an adjacent domain.

Applied-Research Lead

Published PhD in the adjacent domain - vision, NLP, physics, chemistry, or RL. Public commits and pre-prints linked from their engineer page.

Senior DL Engineers (x2)

PyTorch 2.x, JAX/Flax, DeepSpeed and FSDP for multi-GPU training. Hugging Face Transformers and PEFT for foundation-model fine-tuning.

Domain SME

Sub-contracted from a curated UAE specialist bench - subsurface geologist, computational chemist, control-systems engineer, or radiologist, as required.

MLOps Engineer

NVIDIA Triton, TensorRT, DVC, Weights & Biases. Commissions the cluster, the training stack, and the eval harness inside your perimeter.

On-premise GPU enablement

DGX, H100, H200 SuperPOD - or G42 Cloud bare metal. Your perimeter, your keys.

No client data ever transits a US-billed hyperscaler. The default operating model is on-site, on the client's badge, on your network.

Hardware sizing

BoM and procurement spec written by the pod

We do not sell hardware. We write the bill of materials, the power and cooling sizing, and the procurement specification. Your supplier wins the tender; we commission the result.

Stack

PyTorch 2.x + Lightning, JAX/Flax, Triton, TensorRT

DeepSpeed and FSDP for multi-GPU training; Hugging Face Transformers and PEFT for foundation-model fine-tuning. Weights & Biases for tracking, DVC for data versioning.

Key management

Customer-managed keys, HSM-backed

Thales or Entrust HSM patterns for model weights, dataset encryption, and registry signatures. Audit-trail wired into your SIEM from day one.

What R&D directors push back on

Three honest objections, three honest answers.

Objection 01

Have you actually shipped a transformer / GNN / physics-informed net in production, or only fine-tuned an off-the-shelf model? Show me the architectures and the validation evidence.

Public commits, pre-prints, and conference talks for every Brocode applied-research engineer are linked from their individual page on the site. Every engagement closes with a Reproducible Research Pack: containerised training, fixed seeds, documented validation protocol, hold-out metrics, ablation table, and a model card co-signed by the Brocode lead and the client SME. The same engineer presents it to your science committee.

Proof: anonymised ADNOC-tier reference - 3D seismic interpretation U-Net retrained on a proprietary subsurface volume, 87% horizon-picking agreement with the senior interpreter, deployed on the internal DGX cluster.

Objection 02

Our cluster is air-gapped. Your team will have to work on-site, badge in, and never take code or data out. Are you set up for that operating model?

Yes. Our default delivery mode for energy, defence-adjacent, and life-sciences clients is on-site, on the client's badge, with no code or data leaving the perimeter. The pod commissions the DGX, H100, or H200 SuperPOD inside your network, configures the training stack with your security operations team, and writes every commit into your repos. Brocode engineers are cleared for the relevant security classifications on a per-engagement basis.

Proof: anonymised TII-adjacent reference - physics-informed neural net for transient turbine thermo-mechanics, 60x speed-up over the legacy FEM solver at 4.2% MAE, the full programme delivered on-site on an air-gapped cluster.

Objection 03

We have worked with a university group before. The papers are good but nothing runs in production. How do you avoid that failure mode?

Different operating model. The university partnership is calibrated to a publication; the Brocode pod is calibrated to a working system on your cluster, with a sign-off from your domain SME against the validation protocol. The two are complementary - we routinely co-publish with the same academic groups. The Reproducibility Checklist we share lets you score any vendor or partner against the same bar before you commit.

Proof: anonymised Mubadala-portfolio biotech reference - graph neural net for ADMET property prediction, integrated into the medicinal-chemistry team's daily triage workflow within 14 weeks, with a joint pre-print authored alongside the client's computational chemistry lead.

Applied-research engineer reviewing experiment runs on a multi-monitor workstation inside an air-gapped research lab

The Reproducible Research Pack

What you get at every milestone, signed by both leads.

  • Containerised training image with pinned dependencies
  • Fixed random seeds and documented hardware fingerprint
  • Validation protocol with the held-out set sample composition
  • Ablation table covering at least the four design decisions
  • Model card aligned to the client's domain reporting standard
  • Co-signature from the Brocode lead and the client SME

How we compare

Academic partner, hyperscaler PSO, Big-4, or hire-in. Where each fits.

The four routes a CSO weighs when this budget reaches the science committee. We complement the academic route rather than replace it.

CapabilityBrocodeUniversity partnerGoogle / AWS ML Solutions LabIBM / Accenture Applied AIDIY hiring more PhDs
Delivery targetWorking system on your cluster, 24 weeksPublication, ~18 monthsPublication or prototype, US-billedSlide deck + advisory9-14 months to hire pod
On-premise air-gapped delivery
Named applied-research lead with PhD + publicationsYes - public commits and pre-prints linkedYesRotating consultantsPartner + offshoreDepends on hire
Reproducible Research Pack at every milestoneContainerised, fixed seeds, ablations, model cardPaper appendixNot standardNot standard
Domain SME sign-off workflowRequired before milestone closeAuthor review only
UAE-billed in AED
Joint authorship / IP modelOptional co-publication, IP to clientIP often joint with universityIP to vendorIP murkyIP to client
Blended engineering rate40-50% under US-billed hyperscaler PSOLower, fixed grant scopeUS-billed premiumUS-billed premium~AED 7-10M / year fully loaded

Working with universities and consortia

We complement, we do not replace.

The publication-quality prototype that comes from an MBZUAI, KU, NYU AD, or KAUST group is genuinely good. It is rarely a system that runs against operational data on an air-gapped cluster within two quarters. That is what Brocode adds.

Our typical engagement structure is three-party: the academic group, the operational sponsor, and Brocode. The academic group owns the novel contribution and the publication; the sponsor owns the data, the cluster, and the operational outcome; Brocode owns the engineering bridge between them.

Joint IP, joint authorship, and joint deliverables are all negotiable. We have signed this structure with three named groups in the UAE.

Free download

From Pre-print to Production: a Reproducibility & Hardening Playbook for UAE R&D Teams

A 40-page PDF and a 30-item reproducibility checklist (CSV). Built around twelve real deep-learning engagements in energy, defence-adjacent, and life-sciences R&D.

  • Experiment tracking standards
  • Data and model lineage
  • GPU cluster economics
  • Reproducer kit standards
  • Publication and IP guidance
  • Internal benchmark: 2 of 12 papers reproducible end-to-end on a fresh cluster within two weeks

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Questions from R&D directors

Frequently asked.

These answers are pulled directly from the engagement contracts we sign for energy, defence-adjacent, and life-sciences clients.

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  • Public commits, pre-prints, and conference talks for every Brocode applied-research engineer are linked from their individual page on the site. Every engagement closes with a Reproducible Research Pack: containerised training, fixed seeds, documented validation protocol, hold-out metrics, ablation table, and a model card co-signed by the Brocode lead and the client SME. The same engineer presents it to your science committee. Proof: anonymised ADNOC-tier reference - 3D seismic interpretation U-Net retrained on a proprietary subsurface volume, 87% horizon-picking agreement with the senior interpreter, deployed on the internal DGX cluster.

Talk to the applied-research lead

A 30-minute call this week. No salesperson on the line.

Tell us the domain, the data classification, and the demo window. We come back with a draft architecture, the named lead, and three references you can phone within 48 hours.

Direct WhatsApp: +971 50 761 2213

Email: hello@brocode.ae

HQ: Al Maryah Island, ADGM, Abu Dhabi

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