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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; and the LUMI portion is a second, separate door into a machine the corpus already records under lumi.json as requiring a consortium country's Resource Allocator, which is a different and slower route than NWO Small Compute. The corpus holds no SURF or NWO record. 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