The growing demand for computational resources in academic research environments has led to an increasing need for efficient sharing of high-performance computing infrastructure across multiple institutions. Traditional approaches to bare-metal resource access in academic settings rely heavily on manual coordination through email requests and ticketing systems, creating significant bottlenecks and limiting visibility into resource availability. These fragmented workflows result in suboptimal utilization of expensive hardware assets, inconsistent handover procedures, and lack of standardized audit trails that complicate accountability and cross-institutional collaboration. Current resource management solutions face several critical challenges in multi-institutional academic environments. Commercial cloud platforms, while offering sophisticated virtualized resource allocation, lack the governance models necessary for institutional autonomy and struggle with bare-metal management requirements common in research settings.