diff --git a/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs.slurm b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs.slurm
index 81bd3edc..fee4bb8d 100644
--- a/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs.slurm
+++ b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs.slurm
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # To submit jobs for every stream:
 # for i in {1..9}; do export PART=$i; sbatch build_graphs.slurm; done
 
-#SBATCH --job-name=build-point-clouds  # create a short name for your job
+#SBATCH --job-name=build-graphs        # create a short name for your job
 #SBATCH --nodes=1                      # node count
 #SBATCH --ntasks=1                     # total number of tasks across all nodes
 #SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1              # cpu-cores per task (>1 if multi-threaded tasks)
diff --git a/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.py b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23c3ac2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import random
+import uuid
+from datetime import datetime
+from pathlib import Path
+from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+
+from graph_builder import GraphBuilder
+
+from gnn_tracking.utils.log import logger
+from gnn_tracking.utils.versioning import get_commit_hash
+
+N_GRAPHS_MEASURED = 10
+N_EXPERIMENTS = 1
+GRAPH_INDIR = Path(
+    "/scratch/gpfs/IOJALVO/gnn-tracking/object_condensation/point_clouds_v2/part_1"
+)
+MEASUREMENT_OUTDIR = Path(
+    "/scratch/gpfs/IOJALVO/gnn-tracking/object_condensation/measurements"
+)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    results = {
+        "gnn_tracking_commit_hash": get_commit_hash(),
+        "date": datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S"),
+        "results": [],
+        "input_dir": str(GRAPH_INDIR),
+        "n_graphs_measured": N_GRAPHS_MEASURED,
+    }
+    logger.debug(results)
+    for _ in range(N_EXPERIMENTS):
+        params = dict(
+            phi_slope_max=random.uniform(0.002, 0.008),
+            z0_max=random.uniform(150, 400),
+            dR_max=random.uniform(1, 5.0),
+        )
+        logger.debug(params)
+        graph_builder = GraphBuilder(
+            indir=GRAPH_INDIR,
+            outdir=Path(TemporaryDirectory().name),
+            redo=True,
+            measurement_mode=True,
+            log_level=1,
+            collect_data=False,
+            **params,
+        )
+        graph_builder.process(stop=N_GRAPHS_MEASURED)
+        measurements = graph_builder.get_measurements()
+        logger.debug(measurements)
+        results["results"].append(measurements | params)
+
+    random_id = uuid.uuid1()
+    MEASUREMENT_OUTDIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with (MEASUREMENT_OUTDIR / f"results-{random_id}.json").open("w") as outf:
+        json.dump(results, outf)
diff --git a/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.slurm b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.slurm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..34f59464
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gnn_tracking/graph_construction/build_graphs_hpo.slurm
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#SBATCH --job-name=build-graphs-hpo    # create a short name for your job
+#SBATCH --nodes=1                      # node count
+#SBATCH --ntasks=1                     # total number of tasks across all nodes
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1              # cpu-cores per task (>1 if multi-threaded tasks)
+#SBATCH --mem=32G                      # total memory per node (4 GB per cpu-core is default)
+#SBATCH --time=1:02:00                 # total run time limit (HH:MM:SS)
+#SBATCH --output=build-graphs-hpo-%j.log
+
+# bash strict mode
+set -euo pipefail
+IFS=$'\n\t'
+
+python build_graphs_hpo.py
+
+echo "Finished"