nsf access

access-ci.org · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

ACCESS Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardphoneDwrite-gated
nsf access / open storage network (as an individual route) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

ACCESS Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardphoneDwrite-gated

allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy · national HPC allocation · compute/access · JSON · compare

Free tier	Explore ACCESS provides up to 400,000 ACCESS Credits, accepted anytime with no deadline, reviewed in one to two business days, lasting 12 months; Discover ACCESS 1,500,000 and Accelerate ACCESS 3,000,000 credit tiers sit above it. unit none; metered on wall-clock; merit-light credit allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution institution: the allocations policy states 'Principal Investigators (PIs) and users must now be affiliated with an eligible organization' and 'Unaffiliated individuals are no longer eligible to request or be added to an ACCESS allocation'; A card, hold, phone number or ID document is not mentioned in any evidence row: unknown. Country: United States only.
Limits	write-gated The allocations portal refuses a request from any person based outside the US or holding a non-organisational email address, and the policy bans unaffiliated, self-employed and retired people outright, so no identity for a user can produce passes the first screen. source The allocations portal refuses a request from any person based outside the US or holding a non-organisational email address, and the policy bans unaffiliated, self-employed and retired people outright, so no identity for a user can produce passes the first screen.
Binding	write-gated The allocations portal refuses a request from any person based outside the US or holding a non-organisational email address, and the policy bans unaffiliated, self-employed and retired people outright, so no identity for a user can produce passes the first screen.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	None available for a user as a PI. The only route in is as a named user on a project led by an eligible US-based researcher, which requires a US collaborator and PI justification for each non-US user.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Refutation of the common claim that ACCESS is open to anyone with an email. Before July 2025 the programme was far more open; NSF Important Notice No. 149 tightened affiliation, email domain and international restrictions. Tier sizes come from a resource provider's documentation rather than the ACCESS site itself, so the 400K/1.5M/3M figures sit one rung below the policy quotes. No GPU-hour figure is published because credits convert to different resource units per provider; a conversion would be invented, so the field is null.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'Principal Investigators (PIs) and users must now be affiliated with an eligible organization. Unaffiliated individuals are no longer eligible to request or be added to an ACCESS allocation', quoted
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutional affiliation (and this includes international campuses of U.S. institutions), you are not eligible to lead an ACCESS allocated project', quoted
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	'The allocations website will not permit non-U.S.-based persons or persons with generic email addresses to initiate allocations requests', quoted; changes attributed to NSF Important Notice No. 149 of 10 July 2025
2026-10-22	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	not published
2026-10-22	docs.jetstream-cloud.org/alloc/overview/	credit thresholds by tier: Explore 400,000, Discover 1,500,000, Accelerate 3,000,000, reported by the Jetstream2 provider documentation

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "merit-light credit allocation",
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   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[3].proved withheld
$.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

nsf access / open storage network (as an individual route) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy · rejected-provider · storage/nsf-access-open-storage-network · JSON · compare

Free tier	Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutiona unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutiona
Notes	Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutiona
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	allocations.access-ci.org/allocations-policy	Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutiona

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Round 2 recorded OSN as 1-50 TB via ACCESS. ACCESS has since tightened under NSF Important Notice No. 149 (2025-07-10): 'If you are based outside of the U.S., regardless of your institutiona",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded