--- title: Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem | daily.dev description: A detailed walkthrough of building a self-service GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) platform on a single Cisco UCS C845A server running Single Node OpenShift. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/architecting-gpuaas-for-enterprise-ai-on-prem-u2jlj0atd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem | daily.dev og:description: A detailed walkthrough of building a self-service GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) platform on a single Cisco UCS C845A server running Single Node OpenShift. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/architecting-gpuaas-for-enterprise-ai-on-prem-u2jlj0atd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u2jLJ0ATD.png og:image:alt: Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 16 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A detailed walkthrough of building a self-service GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) platform on a single Cisco UCS C845A server running Single Node OpenShift. The architecture covers three planes: a scheduling plane using a calendar-based reservation system, a control plane built around a Kubernetes-style Python reconciler loop, and a runtime plane providing isolated per-tenant namespaces with full ML tooling. GPU resource management uses NVIDIA MIG partitioning (hardware-level isolation) combined with time-slicing for multi-tenant sharing. The post also introduces a 'tokenomics' cost framework that reduces infrastructure spend to cost-per-million-tokens, enabling on-prem vs. cloud comparisons and business case justification for enterprise AI infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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