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GPU Hardware Management

From L40 to Blackwell — the silicon layer, managed.

Overview

From L40 to Blackwell — the silicon layer, managed.

Dexra sources, deploys and manages the physical compute layer that AI actually runs on — from workstation-class GPUs to full data-center-scale clusters.

GPU Hardware Management
What we deliver

Capabilities under this service.

  • GPU procurement strategy and vendor / allocation negotiation
  • Rack design, power and cooling planning (air-cooled through direct-to-chip liquid)
  • Cluster bring-up: NVLink / NVSwitch and InfiniBand / RoCE networking
  • Driver, firmware and CUDA / ROCm stack management across fleets
  • GPU utilisation monitoring, thermal management and predictive maintenance
  • Multi-tenant GPU scheduling (Kubernetes device plugins, Slurm, Run:ai-style orchestration)
  • Lifecycle: refresh planning, decommissioning, secure data destruction
  • Capacity planning aligned to model training / inference roadmaps
Coverage

GPU Generations Under Management

Current, hands-on experience across every generation and vendor — not a marketing slide.

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NVIDIA L40 / L40S

Inference & graphics-accelerated workloads

NVIDIA A100 / A30

Training and high-throughput inference

NVIDIA H100 / H200

Large-scale LLM training and inference (Hopper)

NVIDIA Blackwell

B100 / B200 / GB200 NVL72 — frontier-model scale

Case studies

Outcomes we've delivered.

A selection of engagements under gpu hardware management. Client names anonymised where required by NDA; metrics are measured post-deployment.

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Case 01Paris, FR

Sovereign AI Cloud (EU)

AI Infrastructure
Challenge

Bring a 4,096-GPU H100 cluster from empty cages to production training capacity in under 120 days to meet a government-backed foundation-model contract.

What we did

End-to-end programme: allocation negotiation, 400G InfiniBand fabric design, NVLink/NVSwitch bring-up, Slurm + Kubernetes hybrid scheduling, and burn-in with MLPerf validation.

112 days
cages-to-training
94%
sustained NCCL efficiency
1.08
cluster PUE achieved
Case 02London, UK

Frontier LLM Lab

AI Research
Challenge

Bridging capacity between an H100 estate today and a GB200 NVL72 order landing in 9 months, without stalling training runs.

What we did

Managed multi-generation fleet (L40S inference, H100 training, staged Blackwell rollout) with automated driver/firmware rollouts and pre-emptible multi-tenant scheduling.

0
training runs lost to hardware
89%
fleet utilisation (7-day avg)
3 weeks
Blackwell time-to-first-token
Case 03Munich, DE

Autonomous Vehicle OEM

Automotive
Challenge

Perception-model training throttled by thermal throttling and inconsistent A100 driver versions across three sites.

What we did

Standardised CUDA/driver baseline via Ansible, direct-to-chip liquid retrofit on 640 GPUs, and predictive maintenance from DCGM telemetry.

+34%
training throughput
-11°C
average GPU temp
0 unplanned
GPU replacements in Y1
FAQ

GPU questions, answered.

Scope, timelines, security posture and delivery models — the details buyers and technical leads ask us before signing.

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What does GPU hardware management cover?

Vendor selection, capacity planning, rack/power/cooling design, firmware and driver lifecycle, NCCL/InfiniBand tuning, Slurm or Kubernetes scheduling, and 24/7 fleet operations across NVIDIA L40, L40S, H100, H200, GB200 and Blackwell generations.

How quickly can you stand up a training cluster?

A validated 256–1,024 GPU pod in 6–10 weeks once hardware lands. Multi-thousand-GPU sovereign clusters typically go production-ready in 12–16 weeks including burn-in and NCCL validation.

How is tenant isolation and security handled?

MIG partitioning, confidential computing where the silicon supports it, per-tenant VLANs, encrypted checkpoints, and hardware-attested boot. All admin actions are logged to an immutable audit trail.

Which delivery models do you support?

Design-and-build hand-over, co-managed operations with your platform team, or fully managed GPU-as-a-service with SLA-backed utilisation and job-completion metrics.

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