Are there multi-tenant Baremetal GPU provisioning platforms?

Yes, there are multi-tenant baremetal GPU provisioning platforms designed to help organizations and cloud providers offer GPU-as-a-Service with strong isolation and automated management. These platforms address the complexities of deploying, managing, and scaling GPU servers across multiple users or teams.

Key platforms and solutions include:

• NorthWind Platform: NorthWind offers Bare Metal GPUs-as-a-Service (BMaaS), enabling the creation of governed, multi-tenant baremetal services. It automates GPU server deployment, management, and scaling, including automated baremetal bring-up, network automation with per-tenant VRFs, and support for high-speed interconnects like InfiniBand.
• vMetal (by vCluster Labs): Described as an integrated AI Platform Foundation, vMetal is a baremetal GPU provisioning and lifecycle management platform for building tenant-isolated GPU infrastructure. It handles automated provisioning (PXE boot, OS installation), network automation for secure multi-tenant environments using VLAN and VXLAN, and integrates with Kubernetes for tenant-isolated clusters.
• Rapt.AI: This platform provides multi-tenant GPU infrastructure for cloud providers, allowing them to turn baremetal into a differentiated GPU-as-a-Service offering. Rapt.AI focuses on intelligent, model-aware optimization to maximize revenue per GPU while delivering performance and isolation for each tenant.
• MetalSoft: MetalSoft enables clients to build their own GPU Clouds with fully integrated, multi-tenant, multi-vendor server, switch, and storage management for AI workloads. It aims to give AI teams on-demand access to GPU resources through a self-service cloud experience.

These platforms aim to streamline the process of transforming raw baremetal GPU hardware into a programmable, multi-tenant cloud environment, addressing challenges like provisioning speed, tenant isolation, and operational overhead.