name: Paperspace Vocabulary
description: |
  Operational and capability vocabulary for the Paperspace (DigitalOcean) GPU
  cloud platform. Mirrors the resources exposed at api.paperspace.com/v1 and
  organises them into Compute, Containers, Storage, Networking, Templating,
  Data, Models, Team, and Authentication concepts.
namespace: paperspace
terms:
- id: Machine
  label: Machine
  description: A Paperspace virtual machine — GPU or CPU compute instance.
  category: Compute
- id: MachineType
  label: Machine Type
  description: A specific GPU or CPU SKU (e.g. H100, A100-80G, A6000, A5000, V100, P6000).
  category: Compute
- id: MachineEvent
  label: Machine Event
  description: An event in the lifecycle of a machine (start, stop, restart, provision, etc.).
  category: Compute
- id: Snapshot
  label: Snapshot
  description: A point-in-time copy of a machine's storage.
  category: Storage
- id: SharedDrive
  label: Shared Drive
  description: A shared persistent volume attached to a private network.
  category: Storage
- id: StorageProvider
  label: Storage Provider
  description: External storage credentials (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) used by datasets and models.
  category: Storage
- id: PrivateNetwork
  label: Private Network
  description: A VPC-like network connecting machines and shared drives.
  category: Networking
- id: PublicIp
  label: Public IP
  description: A claimed public IPv4 address that can be assigned to a machine.
  category: Networking
- id: Deployment
  label: Deployment
  description: A container-based service running on Paperspace with managed endpoint and autoscaling.
  category: Containers
- id: ContainerRegistry
  label: Container Registry
  description: Credentials for a private container registry used by Deployments.
  category: Containers
- id: OsTemplate
  label: OS Template
  description: An official Paperspace OS image used to provision a machine.
  category: Templating
- id: CustomTemplate
  label: Custom Template
  description: A user-created machine image template.
  category: Templating
- id: StartupScript
  label: Startup Script
  description: A bash script that runs on machine first-boot.
  category: Templating
- id: Project
  label: Project
  description: Top-level container owning deployments, models, secrets, and tags.
  category: Organization
- id: Collaborator
  label: Collaborator
  description: A team member with explicit access to a project.
  category: Organization
- id: Dataset
  label: Dataset
  description: A versioned data collection used by Gradient.
  category: Data
- id: DatasetVersion
  label: Dataset Version
  description: A specific version of a dataset.
  category: Data
- id: Model
  label: Model
  description: A trained ML model registered in the Gradient model registry.
  category: AI/ML
- id: Team
  label: Team
  description: A Paperspace billing and access boundary.
  category: Identity
- id: TeamMember
  label: Team Member
  description: A user who belongs to a Paperspace team.
  category: Identity
- id: User
  label: User
  description: An authenticated Paperspace user.
  category: Identity
- id: Secret
  label: Secret
  description: An encrypted key/value pair scoped to a project or team.
  category: Security
- id: Session
  label: Session
  description: The result of the /auth/session lookup describing current user and team.
  category: Identity
- id: Tag
  label: Tag
  description: A free-form label attached to a project.
  category: Organization