nsf access

access-ci.org · 2 records in Compute, Storage · JSON

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fails: identityACCESS
Computefree tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitynsf access / open storage network (as an individual route)
Storagefree tieridentity institutionno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05

ACCESS

Compute

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Free allowance: Explore ACCESS provides up to 400,000 ACCESS Credits, accepted anytime with no deadline, reviewed in one to two business days, lasting 12 months; Discover ACCESS 1,500,000 and Accelerate ACCESS 3,000,000 credit tiers sit above it.
Verdict: fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
Cost: free tier
Identity: institutioncard unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: write-gatedThe allocations portal refuses a request from any person based outside the US or holding a non-organisational email address, and the policy bans unaffiliated, self-employed and retired people outright, so no identity a user can produce...
Evidence: documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	Explore ACCESS provides up to 400,000 ACCESS Credits, accepted anytime with no deadline, reviewed in one to two business days, lasting 12 months; Discover ACCESS 1,500,000 and Accelerate ACCESS 3,000,000 credit tiers sit above it. unit none; metered on wall-clock; merit-light credit allocation
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) The allocations portal refuses a request from any person based outside the US or holding a non-organisational email address, and the policy bans unaffiliated, self-employed and retired people outright, so no identity a user can produce passes the first screen. source
Identity	institution institution: the allocations policy states 'Principal Investigators (PIs) and users must now be affiliated with an eligible organization' and 'Unaffiliated individuals are no longer eligible to request or be added to an ACCESS allocation'; A card, hold, phone number or ID document is not mentioned in any evidence row: unknown. Country: United States only.
Egress	not stated
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	None available for a user as a PI. The only route in is as a named user on a project led by an eligible US-based researcher, which requires a US collaborator and PI justification for each non-US user.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Refutation of the common claim that ACCESS is open to anyone with an email. Before July 2025 the programme was far more open; NSF Important Notice No. 149 tightened affiliation, email domain and international restrictions. Tier sizes come from a resource provider's documentation rather than the ACCESS site itself, so the 400K/1.5M/3M figures sit one rung below the policy quotes. No GPU-hour figure is published because credits convert to different resource units per provider; a conversion would be invented, so the field is null.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'Principal Investigators (PIs) and users must now be affiliated with an eligible organization. Unaffiliated individuals are no longer eligible to request or be added to an ACCESS allocation', quoted
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutional affiliation (and this includes international campuses of U.S. institutions), you are not eligible to lead an ACCESS allocated project', quoted
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'The allocations website will not permit non-U.S.-based persons or persons with generic email addresses to initiate allocations requests', quoted; changes attributed to NSF Important Notice No. 149 of 10 July 2025
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	not published
2026-10-22	docs.jetstream-cloud.org/alloc/overview/	credit thresholds by tier: Explore 400,000, Discover 1,500,000, Accelerate 3,000,000, reported by the Jetstream2 provider documentation

More fields 1

facets	`{"class": "national-hpc","free_tier_kind": "merit-light credit allocation","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}`

Unknown values 7

egress metered: egress metering was not published
egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
interface: the access interface was not established
per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field

nsf access / open storage network (as an individual route)

Storage

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Free allowance: 10 TB to 50 TB of S3-compatible storage per project through the ACCESS allocation process, at no cost to researchers; an allocation needs an eligible ACCESS project.
Verdict: fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
Cost: free tier
Identity: institutionno card, no phone
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: documented18 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05

Free tier	10 TB to 50 TB of S3-compatible storage per project through the ACCESS allocation process, at no cost to researchers; an allocation needs an eligible ACCESS project. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes; ACCESS allocates resources at no cost to researchers, OSN storage included; the OSN documentation gives a rate of 3,000 ACCESS credits per 1 TB.
Price	none stated
Limits	volume-quota 50 TB per-project quota, shared across all buckets in the project source
Binding	none the allowance reaches the stored-bytes need; the eligibility gate (organisational affiliation, U.S.-based PI) is what blocks an unaffiliated individual
Identity	institution A PI must be a researcher or educator based in the U.S. and affiliated with an eligible organisation; persons based outside the U.S. cannot request or lead an allocation, and users must be affiliated with an eligible organisation.
Egress	not recorded
Retention	Bucket storage is never purged and not backed up.
Interface	s3-compatible S3-compatible buckets with an endpoint URL, a bucket name and up to two key pairs; no shell or mounted filesystem.
Tooling	AWS CLI, Cyberduck, Rclone and Restic against the bucket endpoint; buckets and keys are created in the OSN portal.
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Eligibility changed under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (July 10, 2025): an organisational affiliation is required and persons based outside the U.S. cannot lead an allocation.
Notes	OSN storage is allocated through ACCESS credits; the OSN documentation gives a first exchange of 10 TB and supplements up to 50 TB; above 50 TB the OSN team is contacted.
Evidence note	documented documented: the project allocation range, the S3-compatible bucket storage and the per-project quota were read on 2026-11-03 at https://support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn, and the organisational-affiliation and U.S.-based PI requirements at https://allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 volume-quota 50 TB

Evidence 18

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	OSN was 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10) for users based outside the U.S.
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	OSN project allocations run from 10 TB to 50 TB through ACCESS
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	unit is TB
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	quota is on stored bytes
2026-11-03	openstoragenetwork.github.io/docs/allocations/	allocation is at no cost
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	S3-compatible object storage
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	the resource is S3-compatible object storage with no shell or mount paths
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	client tools
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	purge and backup policy
2026-11-03	support.access-ci.org/documentation/resources/osn	part of the text of Limits, above
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	an ACCESS allocation needs an eligible organisational affiliation
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	non-U.S. persons cannot lead allocations
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	the 10 TB to 50 TB allowance reaches the need but an unaffiliated individual cannot hold or join an allocation
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	eligibility was tightened under the notice
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	eligibility binds, not a named limit
2026-11-03	openstoragenetwork.github.io/docs/allocations/	limit above 50 TB
2026-11-03	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	ACCESS eligibility requires an affiliation
2026-11-04	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	persons based outside the U.S. cannot request or lead ACCESS allocations

More fields 1

dead end	`{"failure_class": "quota","why": "OSN was 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10) for users based outside the U.S.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}`

Unknown values 4

chaining: no value was recorded for this field
egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field