SecondRun / Post-release observation
What does the medal establish?
ClusterMAX 3.0 is released. This ledger records 17 selected provider assignments and the scope of the evidence reviewed. It is not a 77-provider audit or a customer-outcome result.
What the report actually tests
The inspected article describes managed clusters, configuration audits, compute/network/storage tests, training and inference workloads, extended load, and fault recovery. It also uses customer feedback and separates short hands-on observations from longer-run questions. The published testing is real evidence; this challenge asks a different, narrower question.
What our test adds
Hold the workload, ordinary customer treatment, baseline and mapping fixed before new jobs. Compare the baseline against the same predictor with the medal added, including a medal-blind reference adjustment. Retain all terminal attempts and report uncertainty across providers. No real prospective outcome packet has been submitted.
The report explains different recovery expectations for different hardware generations. A useful comparison therefore carries the actual service, hardware, permissions, support and observation period. A provider logo alone does not encode those conditions.
What remains unresolved in this review
The ledger records partial global scope and test conditions; exact provider-specific dates and service configurations have not been normalized. An out-of-sample comparison with a frozen specs-and-price baseline was not identified in the reviewed sections. Provider appendix entries are not individually adjudicated here. These are limits of this review, not claims that evidence exists nowhere.
Complete 77-provider transcription · Changes from 2.1
Selected release assignments
Transcribed from the supplied release graphic and cross-checked against named changes in the announcement. Seventeen selected entries, not the full roster.
| Provider | 3.0 classification | Scorer treatment |
|---|---|---|
| CoreWeave | Platinum | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Nebius | Platinum | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Oracle | Gold | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Google Cloud | Gold | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Azure | Silver | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Lambda | Silver | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Firmus | Silver | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| TensorWave | Silver | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| GMI | Silver | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Crusoe | Bronze | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Hyperstack | Bronze | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| DigitalOcean | Bronze | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
| Vultr | Participation Ribbon | Outside original transform |
| Runpod | Participation Ribbon | Outside original transform |
| Fluidstack | Unavailable | Not a quality score |
| Scaleway | Unavailable | Not a quality score |
| OVHcloud | Underperforming | Eligible tier; a real plan and outcomes are still required |
Per-provider, per-dimension review status
From claims-3.0.observed.json (schema secondrun.launch-claims.v2), read directly -- no status below is asserted anywhere else. Every cell carries a hover title with the exact limitation text recorded for that field; hover or inspect the source JSON for the full wording. PARTIAL means a value is supplied but this scoped review has not normalized it to the provider-specific claim named in the limitation; NOT_REVIEWED means this ledger did not extract or verify the field; NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES means the reviewed sections do not supply it. None of these three statuses assert that the missing material does not exist elsewhere.
| Provider | Medal | Scope | Observation conditions | Evidence | Test dates | Predictive check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreWeave | Platinum | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Nebius | Platinum | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Oracle | Gold | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Google Cloud | Gold | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Azure | Silver | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Lambda | Silver | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Firmus | Silver | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| TensorWave | Silver | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| GMI | Silver | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Crusoe | Bronze | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Hyperstack | Bronze | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| DigitalOcean | Bronze | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Vultr | Participation Ribbon | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Runpod | Participation Ribbon | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Fluidstack | Unavailable | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| Scaleway | Unavailable | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
| OVHcloud | Underperforming | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | NOT_REVIEWED | NOT_IN_REVIEWED_SOURCES |
Citations: every cell above except the two Unavailable-tier Scope cells is sourced to the 3.0 article (Results, Scope, testing methodology, reliability and agentic-coding sections), retrieved 2026-09-23T21:54:18Z. The two Unavailable-tier Scope cells (Fluidstack, Scaleway) are sourced to the launch announcement, retrieved 2026-09-23T21:54:17Z. Medal-table source (the release graphic): retrieved 2026-09-23T22:03:49Z, hash in the ledger JSON. Rubric source: NOT_VERIFIED_FOR_3.0 -- no rubric binding is possible from this ledger yet.
Version changes stay visible
Participation Ribbon is a new ordinal category. The original five-tier transformation remains unchanged and refuses it. Unavailable is recorded separately from quality. A future six-tier model must be identified as a new, post-release choice. The exact 3.0 grading rubric is not yet verified in this ledger; the article is a methodology source, not a substitute for unobserved rubric bytes. Historical R1 inputs and results stay unchanged; the readout explains their limits.
No pre-medal registration of a real study is claimed. A design frozen now can still predict future jobs. Code publication, study registration, rating binding and outcomes are separate records.
Disclosure
Hot Aisle provided $200 in compute credits for my own testing.
Sources inspected
Primary release ranking graphic
3.0 article (Results, Scope, testing methodology, reliability and agentic-coding sections) · Launch announcement · Response hashes and retrieval conditions · Ledger contract.
The fetched homepage still showed older content; it was not used to contradict the announcement. Exact source bytes remain in author-controlled custody; the full copyrighted article is not republished.