Sustainable Metal Cloud, operated by Firmus Technologies, represents a unique approach to GPU cloud services with a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. The company has demonstrated impressive performance in MLPerf Training v4.0 benchmarks, successfully training large models like GPT-3 175B. Their infrastructure utilizes innovative cooling solutions, including H100 immersion cooling, which they've proven consumes less power than traditional air-cooled solutions .

 

What sets SMC apart is their focus on sustainable infrastructure combined with high-performance computing. They are one of the few providers, alongside CoreWeave and Azure, to implement InfiniBand SHARP for network reductions, delivering superior networking performance. Their platform includes support for both Slurm and Kubernetes scheduling solutions, along with Pyxis for containerized workloads. They utilize WEKA's high-performance storage platform to support large-scale AI applications. While their GPUs operate slightly warmer under load compared to air-cooled offerings, their focus on sustainability and performance optimization has attracted organizations looking to balance environmental responsibility with high-performance computing needs