INCITE
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- caveatINCITE (ALCF + OLCF, US DOE)
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: identityINCITE
Computefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
INCITE (ALCF + OLCF, US DOE)
Storage- Free allowance
- 100 trillion bytes (~100 TB) of data storage awarded across the programme each year; per-project archival quota at OLCF is 200 TB (shared across Project/World/User Archive on Kronos).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 100 trillion bytes (~100 TB) of data storage awarded across the programme each year; per-project archival quota at OLCF is 200 TB (shared across Project/World/User Archive on Kronos). unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Annual call only (mid-April to mid/late June), awards 1-3 years with a peer-reviewed annual renewal request. Post-project archival storage is explicitly at the facility's discretion ('The facilities reserve the right to limit the amount and duration of archival storage once a project has been completed'). Data must be research data. |
| Binding | none 100 TB is awarded to projects by a review panel; there is no route from an unaffiliated individual to an allocation. |
| Identity | institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence |
| Egress | Globus/GridFTP and SSH transfer free to allocation holders; no egress meter. Data is not a public HTTP origin. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | Tenured infrastructure; data survives, but the allocation expires and the archival quota can be clawed back after project end - treat as renewable-while-funded, not permanent. |
| Interface | s3, sftp, scp, ssh posix |
| Tooling | SSH/scp/sftp, Globus, Lustre + HPSS/Kronos nearline mounts; no S3. |
| Composes with | One allocation = one project directory on a 100+ PB Lustre (Eagle/Orion) plus up to 200 TB nearline archive. Storage is not separately metered, so a storage-heavy proposal can request a large quota against a small compute request - but the proposal must still justify compute. |
| Reliability | Tenured infrastructure; data survives, but the allocation expires and the archival quota can be clawed back after project end - treat as renewable-while-funded, not permanent. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/ | '100 trillion bytes of data storage space'; '1-3 years (renewable)'; 'Multiyear awards must submit annual renewal requests' |
| 2026-10-21 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/ | Q10: 'Are foreign researchers and teams eligible to apply? Yes... U.S. collaborations are encouraged, but not required.' Q11: 'the solicitation is open to individual researchers' |
| 2026-10-21 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/123/2025 | 'open to US- and non-US-based researchers and research organizations'; 'Citizenship and specific funding sources are not qualifiers' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.olcf.ornl.gov/data/index.html | Project Archive 200 TB, no purge flag |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
INCITE
Compute- Free allowance
- Up to 60% of the allocatable time on Frontier (OLCF) and Aurora (ALCF) is allocated through INCITE for calendar year 2027; for each resource, allocations are anticipated to be between 500K and 2M node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, and individual awards may be higher.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe PI may be foreign and unaffiliated on paper, but the award is conditional on each participating institution signing the ANL/ORNL user agreement, and the applicant must already hold all funding and resources needed to execute the...
- 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 | Up to 60% of the allocatable time on Frontier (OLCF) and Aurora (ALCF) is allocated through INCITE for calendar year 2027; for each resource, allocations are anticipated to be between 500K and 2M node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, and individual awards may be higher. Non-proprietary research projects are not charged for access. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; merit-reviewed allocation |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | institution not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | The awarded resource is time plus 100 trillion bytes of storage across the programme; it does not include labour, travel or postdoc funding, so it composes only with a grant the applicant already holds. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Two review phases: an international peer-review panel on scientific merit, then a technical assessment of computational readiness by LCF staff. Requests under 20% of the average award are redirected to Director's Discretionary or ALCC. Early Career Track reserves 10% of allocatable time for PIs within 10 years of a PhD who have not previously been INCITE PI. Polaris is no longer available; Aurora and Frontier are the only INCITE resources for 2027. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/ | allocations anticipated between 500K and 2M node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, up to 60% of allocatable time, CY2027, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/ | 'US and non-US based Individuals and/or teams of researchers from academia, national laboratories, industry, and federal agencies are eligible to apply', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/ | application window Wednesday April 8, 2026 through 8:00 pm EDT Monday June 15, 2026; awards announced November 2026, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/ | 'each participating institution on the awarded proposal must accept or already have signed the user agreement; otherwise, access by the institution's researcher(s) to the LCF system will be delayed', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/ | FAQ 8: 'researchers are expected to have all funding and any other elements necessary to ensure the success of their research project in place at the time of their application'; FAQ 26 repeats it as an eligibility condition |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "national-hpc","free_tier_kind": "merit-reviewed allocation","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "AMD MI300A (Frontier) / Intel Data Center GPU Max (Aurora)","gpu_count": null}} |
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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