Kraken’s freeride
Mar 12, 2025
GRICAD is launching a call for projects for its new Kraken supercomputer, available from June 2 to June 30, 2025 in “challenge” mode. Public researchers in Grenoble can submit applications before April 14, 2025.
This “freeride” period offers exclusive access to 11,328 AMD Genoa CPU cores, 28 Nvidia H100 GPUs and a 300 TB NVMe storage system. Projects must be able to scale on either CPU (9,984 cores) or GPU (28 H100) partitions, or both.
This test phase will enable the platform’s operation to be evaluated and fine-tuned in real-life conditions. The selected researchers will have full access to the compute nodes and scratch system, but should expect some platform reboots.
The aim of this initiative is to involve the HPC community in evaluating the performance of the new system in a real-life environment.
Successful projects will contribute to the improvement of Kraken before its official launch.
All the information is available on this page.