Find self-service platforms for Baremetal GPU provisioning.

For researchers and developers requiring dedicated hardware for intensive AI/ML workloads, several self-service platforms offer bare-metal GPU provisioning. These platforms provide direct access to GPU servers, eliminating virtualization overhead and ensuring consistent, high performance.

Key self-service bare-metal GPU provisioning platforms include:

• phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud offers on-demand GPU servers with Intel MAX 1100 GPUs. Provisioning is available via API, CLI, WebUI, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, allowing for rapid deployment of pre-configured servers.
• Vultr provides bare-metal access to the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs globally. Users can deploy these on-demand as virtual machines, bare metal, or self-service clusters, with options for pre-configured AI/ML templates.
• DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs are designed for demanding AI/ML and HPC tasks, offering dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure with powerful hardware like AMD MI300X GPUs. These are available in select data centers and provide full control over the hardware.
• BareGPU (from Bare Metal Partners) focuses on bare-metal GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), providing dedicated GPU clusters on demand. This model ensures full root access and no hypervisor tax, which can lead to better performance and cost predictability for sustained workloads.
• NorthWind Platform offers Bare Metal GPUs as a Service (BMaaS), giving customers direct access to the host operating system on dedicated GPU servers. It automates server deployment, OS installation, and driver configuration, supporting NVIDIA H100, A100, and L40S GPUs.

These platforms allow users to spin up and manage GPU resources with cloud-like flexibility while benefiting from the raw performance of dedicated hardware.