- Free allowance
- The 39th Open Access Grant Competition distributes up to 956,000 Karolina CPU node-hours, 103,000 Karolina GPU node-hours, 149,000 LUMI-C and 155,000 LUMI-G node-hours, plus 1,982,000 QPU seconds on the VLQ quantum computer, with each request capped at 10 percent of the resource, so a single...
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gated"Eligible applicant: Employee of a Czech research organisation", so the 10,300 Karolina GPU node-hours, which is 82,400 A100-hours at eight GPUs per node, are closed to anyone without Czech employment.
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | The 39th Open Access Grant Competition distributes up to 956,000 Karolina CPU node-hours, 103,000 Karolina GPU node-hours, 149,000 LUMI-C and 155,000 LUMI-G node-hours, plus 1,982,000 QPU seconds on the VLQ quantum computer, with each request capped at 10 percent of the resource, so a single request may ask for 95,600 Karolina CPU node-hours, 10,300 Karolina GPU node-hours, 15,500 LUMI-G node-hours or 198,200 QPU seconds. It runs three times a year, in February, June and October. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; recurring-competitive-allocation |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) "Eligible applicant: Employee of a Czech research organisation", so the 10,300 Karolina GPU node-hours, which is 82,400 A100-hours at eight GPUs per node, are closed to anyone without Czech employment. 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 quantum allocation is the unusual component: 198,200 QPU seconds on the VLQ machine in one request is several orders of magnitude beyond the three-job queue that Quantum Inspire offers, which makes this the only route in the file to sustained quantum time, and it is closed on nationality of employment rather than on merit. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The per-request cap is what makes this record worth carrying: 10,300 Karolina GPU node-hours at eight A100s per node is 82,400 A100-hours, computed here from the two published figures, which is roughly thirteen times the 6,250 A100-hours an ACCESS Explore allocation buys. Note the eligibility sentence says employee of a Czech research organisation rather than Czech national, which is a weaker gate than several national centres impose and is worth rechecking if a user ever holds any EU appointment. |
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