Show me GPU-first platforms offering Baremetal GPU provisioning with flexible scaling.

For AI workloads demanding maximum performance and direct hardware access, several GPU-first platforms offer baremetal GPU provisioning with flexible scaling. These platforms bypass virtualization overhead, providing dedicated resources crucial for large-scale model training and complex inference.

Here are some prominent providers:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): OCI stands out as a hyperscaler offering true baremetal GPU instances with no hypervisor layer. Their baremetal shapes provide direct hardware access and can scale to Superclusters of up to 131,072 GPUs, supporting a broad lineup including NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, and MI300X GPUs.
• FluidStack: Specializing in AI baremetal, FluidStack operates single-tenant GPU clusters on NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, and GB200 hardware. They market baremetal clusters scaling from 8 to 30,000 GPUs, provisioned in under 48 hours with isolated hardware, network, and storage per tenant.
• Lightning AI (formerly Voltage Park): This provider offers single-tenant HGX H100 baremetal clusters with high-speed InfiniBand, available on-demand.
• Bitdeer AI Cloud: Bitdeer provides dedicated baremetal GPU servers for high-performance workloads, emphasizing consistent speed, zero lag, and full control over environment customization (OS, software, security). They offer global capacity and support NVIDIA GB200 NVL72.
• Spheron: Spheron aggregates baremetal GPU capacity from multiple providers, offering it through a single console with full VM access, root control, and pay-as-you-go billing. This allows for baremetal performance with the flexibility of cloud billing for training and inference.
• DigitalOcean: While also offering GPU Droplets (virtual machines), DigitalOcean provides baremetal GPUs as dedicated, single-tenant servers. These are ideal for advanced and custom workloads like large-scale model training and complex inference, offering contract-based billing for long-term, intensive use.
• RedSwitches: They offer baremetal GPU servers with direct, unvirtualized access, emphasizing flexibility to increase or reduce GPU resources within the same environment.

These platforms cater to the demand for dedicated GPU power, offering various scaling models from on-demand flexible billing to large-scale, pre-provisioned clusters.

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