Overview

GPUtoRent.com rents out whole, dedicated machines with large unified memory — Apple Mac Studio and NVIDIA DGX Spark — by the day. You pick the days on a calendar, pay upfront, and log in over SSH while your reservation is live. Nobody else uses the machine while it's yours, and everything you put on it is permanently erased when your reservation ends.

What you get#

• A physical machine to yourself. Not a virtual machine, not a slice of a GPU, not a queue. One reservation is one machine, with one renter at a time.
• Large unified memory. The CPU and GPU share one big, fast memory pool, so models that don't fit on a typical graphics card run comfortably. See Instance types.
• SSH access with your own key. Every machine is reached at ssh.gputorent.com on its own port, and you always log in as renter with the key you chose for the reservation. See SSH keys.
• A standard account, without admin rights. You install your tools, Python environments and models in your home folder; on a DGX Spark, the docker command runs containers as you. See What's allowed.
• A remote desktop on Mac Studio, through your SSH connection. See Remote desktop on a Mac Studio.
• An optional startup script that runs once, at the start of the reservation, to install tools or download a model before you log in. See Startup scripts.
• Whole days in UTC. A daily reservation starts at 00:00 UTC on its first day and ends at 23:59 UTC on its last day.

How it works#

1. Create an account with your email address and verify it.
2. Add an SSH public key in your dashboard (or on the way, from the reservation page).
3. Reserve: choose a plan in the catalog, give the reservation a name, pick your key and your days, then pay by card.
4. Connect: when the reservation starts, the machine is prepared for you, which usually takes a few minutes. Once the reservation page says Your machine is ready, connect with the SSH command it shows, such as ssh -p 2211 renter@ssh.gputorent.com.
5. Copy your results off before the end. When the reservation ends, everything on the machine is erased.

The Quickstart walks through these steps in detail.

Good to know before you book#

• Payment is upfront for the whole reservation, in euros, pounds or US dollars depending on your country. See Payment, currencies and VAT.
• Reservations can't be cancelled or moved once paid. See No cancellations.
• Everything is in UTC. Days, start and end times, and every time shown on the site and in emails.
• Nothing survives the end of a reservation. Your files, installed tools and the account itself are erased, and there are no backups. See Reservation lifecycle.
• Only SSH reaches the machine. A server you run on it, such as Jupyter or a model API, is reached through SSH port forwarding. See VS Code and Jupyter.

Where things are#