Penguin On Demand (POD)

Penguin Solutions' single-tenant HPC cloud: non-virtualised bare-metal nodes in a US Tier III data centre, run with its own ClusterWare cluster management software.

HQ US bare-metalmanaged-hpc

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Facts

Source per value
Type What kind of provider it is: hyperscaler, managed HPC service, GPU cloud, sovereign or EU-hosted cloud, publicly funded supercomputer, or simulation-software cloud.
managed-hpc 1
Fabric Primary node-to-node network the provider states for its HPC or GPU clusters. RDMA means the provider names RDMA cluster networking without naming the transport.
Not published
Interconnect detail Speeds and instance families as the provider states them.
"Low-latency networks"; InfiniBand named only in the DGX-Ready managed services section 1
Schedulers Job schedulers and orchestrators the provider offers or documents.
ClusterWare cluster management software (no job scheduler named on the page) 1
Slurm Offers or documents Slurm (managed, or as a supported deployment).
Not published
Kubernetes Offers managed Kubernetes for its clusters.
Not published
CPUs CPU models the provider names for its HPC or GPU hosts.
Not published
GPUs / accelerators Accelerators the provider lists, as listed on its own pages.
Not published
H100 Lists NVIDIA H100.
Not published
Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B200, B300, GB200, GB300).
Not published
AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU.
Not published
Bare metal Sells non-virtualised bare-metal nodes.
Yes 1
H100 $/GPU-hr $/GPU-hr Published per-GPU-hour price of an H100. Basis (on-demand, capacity block, derived from an 8-GPU price) is in the next column.
Not published
H100 price basis What the H100 price is: purchase mode, instance size and any derivation.
Not published
Price checked Date the price was read from the provider page.
Not published
Pricing model How the provider charges, as it states it.
Not published
Regions Locations the provider names on its own pages.
One US Tier III data centre (city not named) 1
EU-hosted Names data-centre capacity in an EU member state.
Not published
Sovereignty claim The provider's own sovereignty or compliance statement, quoted or closely paraphrased.
Not published
Software catalogue Pre-configured application catalogue a platform provider advertises.
Not published
Runs on Clouds and hardware partners a platform provider lists.
Not published

Sources

  1. Penguin On Demand accessed 2026-11-11
  2. Penguin DGX-Ready managed services accessed 2026-11-11

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