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A registered account gets 250 GB of storage and 6 concurrent jobs; an unregistered one gets 5 GB and 1 job. The hardware is not Galaxy's own: most jobs take 1 core and 8 GB on the dedicated Galaxy cluster at TACC, multi-core tools take 6 cores and 30 GB there or 10 cores and 30 GB on Jetstream m1.xlarge, and assembly jobs are routed to PSC Bridges (240 GB to 960 GB of memory, 5 to 20 cores, 24 to 96 hours) or TACC Stampede2 SKX (48 cores, 192 GB, 48 hours).","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"perpetual-open-registration"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"This is the strongest composition: an email account reaches TACC, Jetstream and PSC Bridges hardware that every other route in this file gates behind a US institutional appointment, and the qualification is that you reach it through Galaxy tool wrappers rather than a shell, so a workload must be expressible as Galaxy tools or a packaged tool in a workflow.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.","source":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/"}],"limits_note":"250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"250 GB of stored data per account is the wall that stops work: reaching it halts new jobs until data is purged, and the 6-concurrent-job cap and the 36 to 48 hour walltime sit behind it.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"this site has been available since 2007 for anyone to analyze their data free of charge\"; \"Anyone can use the public servers, with or without an account\", quoted"},{"url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"It is sustained by Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) hardware using allocation generously provided by the CyVerse project\", quoted"},{"url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quota table: 250GB registered and 5GB unregistered, 6 concurrent jobs registered and 1 unregistered, quoted"},{"url":"https://galaxyproject.org/main/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"compute resource table: Jetstream 36 hour walltime, 10 cores, 30 GB; TACC Stampede2 SKX 48 hour walltime, 48 cores, 192 GB; PSC Bridges 240 GB to 960 GB and 5 to 20 cores, quoted"},{"url":"https://galaxyproject.org/support/account-quotas/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"each registered account is granted 250 GB of quota space\" at Galaxy Main, quoted"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The reachable identity is the point. Every other record fails on institution Galaxy Main, Galaxy Europe and the Australian and African servers each issue an account to an email address, and the server operators are separate institutions carrying separate hardware allocations, so the capacity is genuinely multi-institutional while the identity is one address. Galaxy is not a general-purpose VM: no root, no arbitrary binaries unless uploaded as a tool, no inbound network, so it is the wrong shape for a server and the right shape for a batch analysis. The corpus holds no Galaxy record.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"open-science-platform","free_tier_kind":"perpetual-open-registration","shape":{"vcpu":10,"ram_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":250,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":250,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}