ARCHER2 Pump Priming

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ARCHER2 Pump Priming Compute

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Free tier	Pump Priming is always open and awards a maximum of 4,000 CU for six months through a light-touch form sent to the service desk, with a decision expected in under two weeks; the Driving Test awards 800 CU including GPU nodes to new users, and Director's Time is always open but restricted to University of Edinburgh researchers. unit users; metered on wall-clock; exploratory / pump-priming allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated Pump Priming is open only to researchers within the EPSRC remit, meaning eligibility for UKRI EPSRC funding and a UK research organisation, so the form is light but the applicant still needs a UK institutional base. source Pump Priming is open only to researchers within the EPSRC remit, meaning eligibility for UKRI EPSRC funding and a UK research organisation, so the form is light but the applicant still needs a UK institutional base.
Binding	write-gated Pump Priming is open only to researchers within the EPSRC remit, meaning eligibility for UKRI EPSRC funding and a UK research organisation, so the form is light but the applicant still needs a UK institutional base.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The Driving Test gets a new user onto the GPU nodes for 800 CU, and Pump Priming then carries the same code to 4,000 CU, so the two compose into a single ramp inside one national system.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The always-open, form-only structure makes this the closest UK analogue to the trial tiers found in Germany and the US, and the sub-two-week decision is faster than any peer-reviewed call in this assignment. The binding term is 'EPSRC remit', which is a funding-eligibility test rather than a nationality test, but it still resolves to a UK research organisation. CU means CPU-hour equivalent on ARCHER2 and is not a GPU-hour unit, so no conversion is offered.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.archer2.ac.uk/support-access/access	Pump-priming row: 'Always open', 'EPSRC remit only. Small amounts of time for testing and porting. Quick decision on access. Maximum of 4000 CU for 6 months', quoted
2026-10-22	www.archer2.ac.uk/support-access/access	'We expect decisions to be made in less than 2 weeks (and usually much sooner). A maximum of 4000 CU for 6 months are currently available through Pump Priming', quoted
2026-10-22	www.archer2.ac.uk/support-access/access	'A small allocation (800 CU) for new ARCHER2 users to get them started using the ARCHER2 Service ... Includes access to GPU nodes', quoted
2026-10-22	www.archer2.ac.uk/support-access/access	'Director's Time ... Small amount of resource is available for University of Edinburgh researchers only', quoted

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "national-hpc",
  "free_tier_kind": "exploratory / pump-priming allocation",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "AMD MI210 (4 GPU nodes, 8 GPUs each)",
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.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