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Acasia Developer Portal Clusters page showing an allocated NVIDIA H200 machine and two active clusters Clusters are the primary compute environment developers interact with — used for:
  • Direct SSH access and interactive workloads
  • Jupyter and IDE-based development
  • Inference endpoint hosting
  • Batch and long-running GPU workloads
  • Experimentation and model fine-tuning

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Allocated Machines section

Use this section to understand how much capacity is available before creating a new cluster.

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Cluster list fields

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Cluster lifecycle states

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Sold Out state

When all GPU capacity on a machine has been allocated, the machine shows as Sold Out in the Allocated Machines section. No additional clusters can be created from that machine until capacity is freed. If your organization needs additional GPU capacity, contact Acasia.

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Creating a cluster

1

Review available capacity

Check the Allocated Machines section to confirm GPUs are available before proceeding.
2

Click Create Cluster

Select the machine to allocate from and configure the cluster resource allocation — GPU count, CPU, RAM, and storage.
3

Wait for Active status

New clusters enter Provisioning state. Refresh the page and wait for the status badge to show Active.
4

Attach an SSH key

Before connecting, ensure a public SSH key is attached to the cluster. Navigate to Settings → SSH Keys to add a reusable key.

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Cluster actions

From the cluster list, you can:
  • Connect via SSH — Open the SSH connection panel for the cluster
  • Deploy inference endpoint — Navigate directly to endpoint deployment for the cluster
  • View details — Inspect full hardware specifications and connection information
  • Terminate — Stop the cluster and release its resources
Terminating a cluster stops all workloads running on it, including active inference endpoints. This action cannot be undone. Confirm there are no critical workloads before terminating.

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Common issues

Cannot create cluster — No available GPU capacity on any allocated machine. Check the Allocated Machines section. If all machines are Sold Out, contact Acasia for additional capacity. Cluster stuck in Provisioning — Provisioning may take several minutes. If the cluster remains in Provisioning for an extended period, check the logs or contact support. Cluster shows Out of Sync — Acasia Cloud requested a state that the runtime has not yet confirmed. Review logs and wait for the control plane to reconcile. If the issue persists, contact support. SSH connection fails — Confirm the cluster is Active, an SSH key is attached, and the correct private key is available locally. See Connect to a cluster with SSH.