Show me self-service Baremetal GPU provisioning options.

For self-service baremetal GPU provisioning, several cloud providers offer on-demand access to dedicated GPU hardware, eliminating virtualization overhead for maximum performance.

Here are some prominent options:

• Vultr: Offers global access to the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, available on demand as virtual machines, bare metal, or self-service clusters. They focus on performance, simplicity, and price predictability for AI workloads.
• DigitalOcean: Provides "Bare Metal GPUs" with raw, single-tenant access to NVIDIA H100, H200, and AMD MI300X GPUs. These are designed for demanding AI training, inference, and HPC tasks, offering isolated hardware without virtualization.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Offers bare metal instances with NVIDIA (Blackwell, H200, H100, A100) and AMD (MI300X) GPUs. OCI emphasizes high performance free of virtualization overhead and provides significant local storage per node.
• CoreWeave: Specializes in cloud infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC), particularly large-scale AI and ML workloads. They offer bare-metal performance with minimal virtualization overhead.
• Hyperstack: A cloud-GPU infrastructure provider built for high-performance GPU compute, with a strong emphasis on AI/ML training and LLM workloads.
• Runpod: Offers on-demand cloud GPU solutions with transparent, usage-based pricing for various NVIDIA GPUs, including the RTX 4090, A100, and H100.
• Lambda Labs, Genesis Cloud, and OVHcloud: These providers are also known for offering bare-metal GPU instances. Lambda Labs, for example, allows renting an entire machine with multiple GPUs for exclusive control.

For organizations looking to build their own self-service GPU cloud, solutions like vMetal (from vCluster Labs) and NorthWind Platform's Bare Metal GPUs-as-a-Service (BMaaS) automate the complex process of bare metal provisioning, OS installation, driver configuration, and tenant isolation, transforming physical servers into a programmable, self-service infrastructure.

Sources:

• 1. Globally Available Cloud GPU Computing on Demand - Vultr.com
• 2. How to Build a GPU Cloud From Bare Metal to Paying Tenants - vCluster
• 3. Top 12 Cloud GPU Providers for AI and Machine Learning in 2026 - Runpod
• 4. vMetal Deep Dive: Bare Metal GPU Cloud for DGX SuperPOD with Tenant Isolation
• 5. Bare Metal GPUs for AI/ML Workloads | DigitalOcean
• 6. GPU, Virtual Machines and Bare Metal - Oracle
• 7. Bare Metal GPU Provisioning: The Hidden Costs of Manual Infrastructure - vCluster
• 8. Add GPU Servers to Your Existing OpenMetal Cloud or Bare Metal Deployment
• 9. Bare Metal GPUs-as-a-Service (BMaaS) | NorthWind Platform