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- Free allowance
- "Each free nanoHUB account comes with 10 GB of free storage space, and three app sessions can be run simultaneously.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateThree simultaneous app sessions is the ceiling, so throughput is bounded by session count rather than by jobs or core-hours, and sessions lapse when the user stops being active.
- 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 | "Each free nanoHUB account comes with 10 GB of free storage space, and three app sessions can be run simultaneously. Each session can have many runs, and persist over multiple days so long as you remain active with them." Accounts are created with "your existing Google account, an email account, or your own institution's account if it is a member of InCommon", and the catalogue holds over 600 simulation apps whose "computational power is provided by nanoHUB [...] these are provided by servers or supercomputer clusters". unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-open-registration |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) Three simultaneous app sessions is the ceiling, so throughput is bounded by session count rather than by jobs or core-hours, and sessions lapse when the user stops being active. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | nanoHUB composes with a batch programme rather than replacing one: an app can be pointed at an external cluster allocation, so a client holding any of the allocations in this record could front it with a nanoHUB interface, though the reverse, using nanoHUB as a general compute backend, does not work. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The strongest identity profile alongside Galaxy: Google or email registration, no institution, no review, and 600-plus published apps. The caveat is shape rather than identity, because nanoHUB runs published tool engines through a web interface, so a user gets a simulation capability and not a machine, and the domain is nanotechnology and semiconductors with some general-purpose tools such as MATLAB. Per-app core and memory limits are set by each app and not published centrally, so no core-hour figure is given here. |
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Evidence 5
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "open-science-platform","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-open-registration","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"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