How to Create DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Bare Metal GPUs

Purchasing and provisioning bare metal GPUs involves completing a contract, setting up billing through Paperspace, and connecting to your servers once provisioning is complete.

Complete a Contract

Bare metal GPUs are not available for on-demand provisioning, so first, contact our sales team to finalize the price and provisioning.

When you contact sales, you choose the hardware and software configuration you want.

All software configurations come with the necessary NVIDIA GPU and CUDA drivers preinstalled.

Set up Billing

After you complete a contract with sales, you create a Paperspace account to manage billing. Payment for bare metal GPUs is managed through Paperspace, a platform to manage GPU-based applications on DigitalOcean.

Connect to Your Server

Once we provision your bare metal GPUs, we email you the IP address of the servers, and you have full control of the configuration. You can connect to it using SSH.

Once you connect, you may want to:

• Set up UFW to protect your bare metal GPU on its public interface. By default, there are no firewalls or gateways in front of bare metal GPUs.

• Install Miniconda, a minimal installation of Anaconda, an AI-focused operating system. Miniconda includes Python, the conda package manager, and a limited number of additional packages and dependencies.

• Install Transformers, an ML toolkit and collection of pre-trained models.

• Install PyTorch, a Python ML library that has support for tensor computing with GPU acceleration and deep neural networks.

If you have any issues, contact our support team.