- Free allowance
- ISCRA Class C awards up to 10,000 GPU hours on Leonardo Booster over a maximum of nine months, and Class B up to 250,000 GPU hours or 3,600,000 core hours over 12 months; a try project is granted by email for about 10% of a Class C project and activated within 10 days.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedISCRA opens only to researchers affiliated to an Italian research organisation, with the PI expected to be affiliated to an Italian institution and the work performed at one, so nationality is irrelevant but the Italian affiliation is not.
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | ISCRA Class C awards up to 10,000 GPU hours on Leonardo Booster over a maximum of nine months, and Class B up to 250,000 GPU hours or 3,600,000 core hours over 12 months; a try project is granted by email for about 10% of a Class C project and activated within 10 days. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; continuous small allocation |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) ISCRA opens only to researchers affiliated to an Italian research organisation, with the PI expected to be affiliated to an Italian institution and the work performed at one, so nationality is irrelevant but the Italian affiliation is not. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The try project needs only an email and a UserDB registration, so it is the lowest-friction route to a Leonardo benchmark number found, but it composes into nothing without the Italian affiliation the Class C application then requires. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The try-project route is the closest thing to an email-only tier discovered anywhere: no form, no committee, about 10% of a Class C project (so roughly 1,000 Leonardo GPU hours), activated in 10 days. The Italian-affiliation gate appears in the general information page rather than in the try-project sentence, so a reconciler should read this as 'email-only request, but eligibility still Italian'. CINECA states it awards in excess of 500 million core processor hours nationally each year and about 1,700 million counting EuroHPC participation. The ISCRA pages return upstream_status 403 while still serving content through the provider's cache, so the text is documented but the origin refused a direct read. |
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