Bare metal reservations

A bare metal customer holds GPU hardware reserved for their organization alone. No other tenant shares the machines, the customer holds root access and runs their own stack, and the hardware is configured around the workload rather than around a listing. This covers both ends of the range: a large deployment built from the ground up, and a smaller reserved allocation on Acasia’s own GPU hardware. Both are arranged through the Acasia sales team.

What a reservation includes

Included	Description
Dedicated hardware	Machines reserved for your organization for the length of the term
Root access	Full administrative access to the machines, so you run your own stack on them
Configuration to the workload	GPU model and count, cluster topology, networking, storage, and interconnect
Acasia Cloud	Node-level telemetry, hardware alerting, machine inventory, credentials, and organization administration
Ongoing operations	Monitoring, capacity changes, and support for the life of the term

Where the control plane is installed on the reserved hardware, Acasia Cloud also reports per-GPU telemetry and can drive model deployment and cluster sizing. See The control plane.

Bare metal compared with the Marketplace

	Bare metal	Marketplace
Tenancy	Dedicated to one organization	Capacity listed by third-party hardware owners
How you buy	Through the Acasia sales team, by invitation	Self-serve checkout
Configuration	Customized to the workload	Selected from the listed capacity
Term	Defined term, agreed up front	End time you set at checkout
Commitment	Larger capacity, longer term	No minimum term
Time to compute	Scheduled with your Acasia team	Immediate after payment
Machine access	Root access — you run your own stack	Managed through the control plane
Telemetry in Cloud	Node level, or GPU level with the control plane	GPU level, scoped to the GPUs you rented

Who bare metal fits

Organizations training or fine-tuning models at a scale that needs dedicated interconnect and topology
Teams running sustained production inference where capacity must be guaranteed for the term
Organizations with data residency, isolation, or compliance requirements that rule out shared capacity
Teams that need administrative control of the machines their workloads run on

Becoming a bare metal customer

Reservations are invite-only. They are not listed, priced, or purchased online — every reservation is scoped with the Acasia sales team before hardware is committed. Start by contacting Acasia at acasia.com/contact or emailing support@acasia.com. The more you can describe up front, the faster the deployment can be scoped:

Detail	Why it matters
Workload	Training, fine-tuning, inference, or a mix — this drives GPU model and topology
Scale	Target GPU count, and whether it grows over the term
Term	How long the capacity is needed
Timeline	When the deployment needs to be live
Networking and storage	Interconnect, throughput, and dataset size requirements
Constraints	Data residency, isolation, compliance, or region requirements

If you need GPU capacity today, the Marketplace is the faster path. Rentals there are self-serve and available immediately after checkout.

Next steps

Contact Acasia

Start the conversation with the sales team.

Acasia Cloud

Telemetry, alerting, and administration for your fleet.

Marketplace

Rent listed capacity while a deployment is being scoped.

​What a reservation includes

​Bare metal compared with the Marketplace

​Who bare metal fits

​Becoming a bare metal customer

​Next steps

Contact Acasia

Acasia Cloud

Marketplace

What a reservation includes

Bare metal compared with the Marketplace

Who bare metal fits

Becoming a bare metal customer

Next steps