Abstract: A system for providing a secure, collaborative, and distributed computing environment as well as a repository for secure data storage and sharing, the system comprising: FHE manager software residing on a trusted client computer that is configured to generate and store encryption and decryption keys in a memory store; configurations manager software residing on the trusted client computer that is configured to track dynamically-changing cloud resources; an untrusted server in an untrusted cloud environment; a plurality of untrusted, physical, distributed processing nodes where no decryption or encryption functions occur at the processing nodes; a machine learning (ML) manager configured to manage ML algorithms in the processing nodes, wherein the untrusted server is permitted to perform cloud management but not trusted to manipulate the data in plaintext thereby enabling collaborative and secure processing, editing, and merging of the data.