CINECA ISCRA

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CINECA ISCRA Compute

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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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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.
Binding	write-gated 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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 in this assignment, but it composes into nothing without the Italian affiliation the Class C application then requires.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The try-project route is the closest thing to an email-only tier discovered anywhere in this assignment: 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 to the broker while still serving content through the provider's cache, so the text is documented but the origin refused a direct read.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.hpc.cineca.it/hpc-access/access-cineca-resources/iscra-p	'On LEONARDO BOOSTER: up to 10.000 GPU hours. Maximum duration of 9 months'; Class B 'up to 250.000 GPU hours on LEONARDO BOOSTER machine OR 3.600.000 CORE hours', quoted
2026-10-22	www.hpc.cineca.it/hpc-access/access-cineca-resources/iscra-p	'Try projects can be requested for new users at [address removed]'; 'activated within 10 days after the request. Average duration of try projects is two months and the amount of resources 10% of an ISCRA ClassC project', quoted
2026-10-22	www.hpc.cineca.it/hpc-access/access-cineca-resources/iscra-p	'The CINECA program is open to all scientific researchers affiliated to an Italian research organization'; 'Projects' Principal Investigators are expected to be affiliated to an Italian institution', quoted
2026-10-22	www.hpc.cineca.it/hpc-access/access-cineca-resources/iscra-p	Class C proposals 'may be submitted at any time of the year, basing on a system of continuous submission' with monthly evaluation and allocation within 45 days, quoted

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "continuous small allocation",
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   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "NVIDIA A100 64 GB (Leonardo Booster)",
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.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