Europe Based GPU Colocation?

[F1N]

Hey there so i am moving home and downsizing, so i wont have space for my current rack and servers and wondering if anyone knows a place within europe preferably that would do GPU colocations, so i could send them my RTX A100 and my 2x Radeon V540s that could be then used as a remote server without me having to find a way to cool and find room for them to live.

Any ideas would be great!

[Zszywany]

I do not know any such place. Ideas:

• sell off the GPUs and rent GPU compute in the cloud
• donate the GPUs to a local university and ask for remote access

[H-i-v-e]

Build a server around the GPUs and place the entire server in colocation? With GPUs, it’s like a normal depth 3U server, depending on the power budged it’s not going to be cheap, but there will be several places all around Europe accepting servers like that.

Renting in the cloud is also possible, but in my experience renting capacity is always significantly more expensive then owning when you need the resources on a regular basis, even taking the colocation into account.

[Trooper_ish]

Might be expensive, but would Hetzner host a complete computer?

Or do they just rent out dedicated computers?

[H-i-v-e]

You are not wrong, Hetzner would both host full servers with GPUs inside, but most places doing colocation would do that, as well as has commercial offerings of servers with GPUs inside.

[Trooper_ish]

most co-locations, do rack space (As you know)

I only mention hetzner, because I know they do shelves of standards towers.

but wasn’t sure if they Hosted tower computers, or only rented out the ones they had themselves.

[H-i-v-e]

Rackspace, yeah, but the only special requirement is that they would need to accept a single server. Some colocation providers want to sell you 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 or a full rack, but what @F1N needs is someone to accept a single server. My suggestion would be, buy an ATX compatible 3U or 4U case, like the ones from Sliger and put a regular computer, preferably with IPMI and enough PCIe lanes in there and then add the GPUs! Put that into the colocation and you’ll have access to a GPU accelerated server for like $150 a month, which is about the cost for placing a single 3U server in colocation.

The price might increase if you have increased power or bandwidth requirements, but should be way cheaper then renting a GPU instance at AWS or the like for a month!