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Hunter carries AMD MI300A APUs, so 100 node hours is a small but real GPU allocation. GCS large-scale thresholds are useful as the corpus's clearest definition of what 'large' means in core hours versus GPU hours on the same programme.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"national-hpc","free_tier_kind":"exploratory / test allocation","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"AMD MI300A (Hunter), NVIDIA A100 (Hawk)","gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}