Zoltan's FLOPs GPU

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Zoltan's FLOPs GPU Compute

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Free tier	Quoted: '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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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.'
Binding	write-gated 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.'
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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 (dossier/compute/lambda.json) 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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A micro-grant rather than a programme, and recorded because the gate is the cleanest in the corpus: a Google Form, no country, no company, judgement by one person. 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. What would settle the next round is a new page on tcz.hu; the site as read today advertises the first iteration and its results only.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
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 @tcz 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)

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$.tooling not-stated