Published 07:13 AEST · Before US Open · Wednesday, 9 September 2026Pipeline 04:30 AESTVol. I  No. 121
The Grid
Independent Price Reporting for the Compute Market
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EST. 2026 · SYDNEY
The normalisation ladder · rung 2

US$ per GPU-hour

What an hour of a defined accelerator class costs on a bookable ask. This rung is the existing GAP-H100 series — the assessed spot leg of the term structure, specified at /standards/instruments/gap-h100.

Existing instrument — see the specification  ·  notice 2026-08-20 §2

· The honesty frame

no new number · no duplication
The honesty frame

This rung already exists as an instrument. The accelerator-normalised price of compute is GAP-H100 — the assessed spot leg of the term structure, produced under its own specification, panel rules, minimum-observation rule and provenance stamp. This page adds nothing to it and republishes none of it.

Why no number renders here. A value carried on two surfaces grows two provenances. The GAP print of the day lives where its provenance lives: the briefing, /instruments, the permanent print URL. The ladder points; it does not copy.

· Where this rung lives

the specification and the live surfaces
SurfaceWhat it holds
/standards/instruments/gap-h100The specification. Definition, panel and admission rules, normalisation, minimum observations, disclosures, revision history. Class as specified: Class 3 · indicator — a constructed measure that is not a price.
/instruments §ⅠThe live series — term structure, provenance stamp, the day's print or its disclosed WITHHELD sibling.
/providersThe bookable-quote register behind the panel, with each leg's disposition (member, qualifying, benched) and the commercial disclosure.
/api/printThe permanent citation endpoint — the print of record, dated and immutable.
Rung 2 of the normalisation ladder (notice 2026-08-20-normalisation-ladder, 2026-08-20). The rung is the existing GAP-H100 surface; its method changes only by its own notices, never by this page.