Evaluation and development
Evaluation hardware, development systems, review units, and test benches that help us validate models, tooling, and workloads under real conditions.
Technology collaboration and hardware partnerships
Collaborate on the engineering — or put idle hardware back to work.
Kraken Systems works with researchers, engineers, labs, vendors, and organizations on evaluation hardware, development systems, review units, loans, matched accelerator groups, engineering collaboration, and research — and can responsibly route discounted, surplus, or donated equipment into lifecycle-tested compute where it still fits.
Ways to work together
Technology collaboration comes first.
Engineering collaboration
Joint research, performance validation, lifecycle testing, matched accelerator groups, and hands-on systems work with researchers and engineering teams.
Equipment partnerships
Loans, discounted, surplus, or donated equipment — servers, GPUs, workstations, storage, networking, and power — routed into lifecycle-managed compute lanes.
Compute
High-memory GPUs, accelerator-capable servers, workstations, complete barebones systems, CPUs, ECC memory, cooling, risers, and power hardware.
Storage and network
Enterprise SSDs, NVMe, hard drives, NAS/SAN equipment, switches, adapters, cabling, racks, rails, consoles, and KVMs.
Resilience
UPS systems, PDUs, power protection, batteries, repair equipment, test gear, monitors, and other infrastructure that keeps systems usable.
Hardware pathways
Your retired hardware may still have a mission.
Kraken may be able to use evaluation units, loans, donated, retired, returned, demonstration, end-of-life, incomplete, damaged, parts-grade, or substantially discounted equipment. The value depends on exact model, proprietary accessories, cooling, power, transport, repairability, and workload fit — every unit is assessed against the fleet's real needs before anything is accepted.
Pickup, delivery, shipping, or transfer arrangements may be considered case by case after the equipment, distance, safety, and handling requirements are reviewed. Any as-is or no-warranty terms must be agreed in writing.
Where hardware fits
Lifecycle-managed compute.
What collaboration enables
Local AILarger models and longer, controlled research workloads.
Public proofBuild records, guides, testing, and open technical learning.
Project KATIAResearch, multilingual organization, prototypes, and partnership development.
Data-bearing equipment
Donors should remove sensitive storage media before transfer unless a written data-handling arrangement is established. Kraken will not intentionally access donor data. Any included storage should be wiped, destroyed, returned, or handled under an agreed process before reuse.
Recognition
Support may be publicly acknowledged, described privately, or remain anonymous according to the contributor’s preference and any applicable organizational policy.
Tax and organizational disclosure: Kraken Systems is not currently a tax-exempt charitable organization. Equipment support is not represented as a tax-deductible charitable donation. Contributors should rely on their own legal, accounting, and disposition policies.