vision
Millions of machines sit idle with unused resources, while research lacks compute. Kira wanted to mobilize those dormant resources, painlessly for the user.
at a glance
2nd prize
CNRS hackathon
maturity · stopped, 2019
TRL 4prototype validated (award-winning)
BRL 2never commercialized
targets
Labs & research
A need for massive computing, a limited infrastructure budget.
Fleets of dormant machines
Resources unused at night and outside working hours.
technologies
Distributed computingDormant resourcesPainless orchestration
context
A project designed during a 48-hour CNRS hacking camp. The goal was to identify market opportunities for a lab technology, within a team made up of an ideator / project lead, a researcher and 5 computer science students. As the intellectual property belonged to the CNRS, the project was never meant to be launched as a startup.
legacy
A market exploration methodology dedicated to breakthrough technologies, and a FinOps / GreenOps analysis framework.
Worth reviving this topic?
A lead, the urge to pick up the torch — write to me.