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www.surf.nl/en/services/storage-data-management/research-driAcademicstorage/surf-research-drive-up-to-5-tb-free-via-nwo-funded-smallJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Community Edition: 'Are you working at an institution without its own Research Drive environment?
- 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
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Community Edition: 'Are you working at an institution without its own Research Drive environment? Then apply for access to Research Drive Community Edition here. You will receive up to 5 TB of storage space.' Institutional instances have their own (much larger) quotas set per institution. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Unmetered — SURF is the Dutch national e-infrastructure, no egress product exists. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, webdav, rclone webdav |
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| Tooling | Research Drive is ownCloud/Nextcloud-based, so the standard desktop sync client and WebDAV endpoints work; rclone's webdav backend applies. Not S3. |
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| Composes with | 5 TB per project via Small Compute, and the same application also unlocks 'max. 10TB project space storage' on Snellius, 'up to 200TB disk storage, 300TB tape storage' on Grid/Spider for data processing, and 'max. 50TB offline tape storage' — one NWO-funded application can therefore land 200+ TB of storage plus 5 TB of Research Drive. |
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| Reliability | servicedesk.surf.nl returns 401 to the reader and www.surf.nl intermittently 504s; the numbers here come from the live NWO page and a 2026-03-11 Wayback capture of the Research Drive page. |
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Evidence 3
Unknown values 4
- 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
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
www.surf.nl/en/small-compute-applications-nwoNational HPC allocationcompute/surfJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- A Small Compute application can request "up to and including 1,000,000 CPU or GPU SBU (standard billing units) of cluster computing on Snellius Supercomputer", "Up to and including 500,000 CPU core-hours and/or 14,000 GPU hours of cluster computing on the LUMI pre-exascale supercomputer", "up to...
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedEligibility is a tenured or tenure-track appointment at a Dutch university, university of applied sciences, university medical centre, KNAW or NWO institute, and a temporary appointment qualifies only if the employer guarantees 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 | A Small Compute application can request "up to and including 1,000,000 CPU or GPU SBU (standard billing units) of cluster computing on Snellius Supercomputer", "Up to and including 500,000 CPU core-hours and/or 14,000 GPU hours of cluster computing on the LUMI pre-exascale supercomputer", "up to and including 1,000,000 CPU core hours or 10,000 GPU hours of Data Processing on Grid and/or Spider", and "up to and including 50,000 CPU core hours or 5,000 GPU hours of cloud computing on HPC Cloud via SURF Research Cloud", with a maximum duration of one year. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; continuous-small-allocation |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) Eligibility is a tenured or tenure-track appointment at a Dutch university, university of applied sciences, university medical centre, KNAW or NWO institute, and a temporary appointment qualifies only if the employer guarantees the project's completion, so the 14,000 LUMI GPU-hours are unreachable without a Dutch contract. source
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| Identity | institution 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 | This is the largest set of numbers in the file reachable without a competitive review: 14,000 LUMI GPU-hours plus 500,000 LUMI core-hours plus a million SBU on Snellius, decided on technical feasibility in about two weeks. It composes badly with nothing except the Dutch contract, which is the whole gate. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Two properties make this the most interesting refutation. The review is not a merit panel but a feasibility check, so the allocation is closer to an administrative entitlement than to INCITE or EuroHPC; SBU on Snellius is a billing unit whose ratio to core-hours the page does not state, so the Snellius figure is left as SBU rather than converted. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.surf.nl/en/small-compute-applications-nwo | up to 1,000,000 CPU or GPU SBU on Snellius; up to 500,000 CPU core-hours and/or 14,000 GPU hours on LUMI; up to 1,000,000 CPU core hours or 10,000 GPU hours of data processing; up to 50,000 CPU core hours or 5,000 GPU hours of HPC Cloud, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.surf.nl/en/small-compute-applications-nwo | "researchers must have either a tenured appointment [...] or a tenure track appointment at one of the research organisations listed below"; for small applications a temporary appointment qualifies only if the organisation "guarantees the computing time project's duration and completion", quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/30660190/Obtainin | "Affiliates of one of the Dutch Universities or Grand Technology Institutes can submit an application for compute resources through NWO", quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.nwo.nl/en/calls/computing-time-on-national-computing-fac | "A researcher may submit a maximum of one computing time application per compute facility per calendar year directly to SURF"; maximum duration one year, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Small+Compute+applicat | "These requests will only be assessed on technical feasibility by SURF and are usually handled within 2 weeks", quoted |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "national-hpc","free_tier_kind": "continuous-small-allocation","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "AMD MI250X (LUMI-G)","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
servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/117178927/RD+Gettstorage/surf-spider-data-archive-as-a-free-self-service-tierJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- NWO Small Compute application (funded by NWO, applied for through SURF): a Grid/Spider data-processing allocation includes up to 200TB disk and 300TB tape; Snellius and HPC Cloud allocations include up to 50TB offline tape; Research Drive up to 5TB.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported10 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | NWO Small Compute application (funded by NWO, applied for through SURF): a Grid/Spider data-processing allocation includes up to 200TB disk and 300TB tape; Snellius and HPC Cloud allocations include up to 50TB offline tape; Research Drive up to 5TB. Eligibility is limited to researchers with a tenured or tenure-track appointment at listed Dutch research organisations. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Reliability | Applications are made through SURF, funded by NWO, one application per applicant per type of service per calendar year; access follows within 1 to 2 weeks of an application. |
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| Notes | Tape archive access is requested through SURF's servicedesk and is institution- and application-gated (the free route is the NWO Small Compute application, which caps at 300 TB tape but… |
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| Evidence note | reported re-read on 2026-11-03: the vendor page https://www.surf.nl/en/small-compute-applications-nwo; it states the 200TB disk and 300TB tape allocation, the tenured or tenure-track eligibility and the one application per year rule; identity_cost.detail is not read from a page, so confidence stays reported |
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Evidence 10
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "not-storage","why": "Tape archive access is requested through SURF's servicedesk and is institution- and application-gated (the free route is the NWO Small Compute application, which caps at 300 TB tape but…","retry_when": "never; it is not storage","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field