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Zoltan's FLOPs GPU
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- Free allowance
- 'Zoltan's FLOPs is a mini-grant program for GPU computing projects.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedone person's judgement decides it: between one and five projects share USD 5,000, the deadline for the first iteration was April 15, 2025, and the page now reads 'Applications closed. Watch this site for results and future iterations.'
- Evidence
- documented2 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 | 'Zoltan's FLOPs is a mini-grant program for GPU computing projects. The goal is to provide small-scale funding to help researchers and developers access GPU compute time on modern hardware.' Size, quoted: 'Total grant budget this iteration: $5,000', and '1-5 projects will be selected, depending on their compute requirements. The selected projects will get a portion of the total grant budget and can spend it on Vast.ai to provision on-demand GPU instances.' The gate is the whole point, quoted: 'Anyone can apply by filling out a simple form. There is no geographical restriction.' Selection, quoted: 'The selection criteria are purely based on my personal judgment, taking into account the project proposal, the background of the applicant, and the computing requirements.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) one person's judgement decides it: between one and five projects share USD 5,000, the deadline for the first iteration was April 15, 2025, and the page now reads 'Applications closed. Watch this site for results and future iterations.' source
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| Identity | email 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 only grant with no geography clause, no entity clause and no institutional sponsor: USD 5,000 at Lambda's documented on-demand rate of USD 3.99 per H100 GPU-hour (compute/lambda) is about 1,253 H100-hours, which is more than enough for one reproducible experiment on a competition dataset. It composes with Zindi and DrivenData competitions, where the compute cost of entry is exactly this size. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The weakness is durability: one iteration ran, 29 applications arrived, and the site promises future rounds without dates. Its interest rate for a user is that USD 5,000 at marketplace rates is real capacity, not a demo. The site as read advertises the first iteration and its results only. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | tcz.hu/zoltans-flops | 'Total grant budget this iteration: $5,000'; 'Anyone can apply by filling out a simple form. There is no geographical restriction. The deadline is the 15th of April, 2025'; '1-5 projects will be selected'; 'can spend it on Vast.ai to provision on-demand GPU instances'; 'Applications closed. Watch this site for results and future iterations'; 'This iteration received 29 applications'; page 200 |
| 2026-10-22 | discuss.huggingface.co/t/zoltans-flops-gpu-mini-grant-1st-it | the announcement post by the programme's author dated 'March 10, 2025, 2:02pm UTC', quoted: 'Today, I'm starting a mini-grant for GPU computation.' and 'In the first iteration of this mini-grant, I hope to support projects where knowledge isn't the bottleneck; computing is.'; page 200 |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "community-grant","free_tier_kind": "one-time-grant","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field