TACC Corral

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TACC Corral (US) — 5 TB free per PI, $60/TB/year beyond Storage

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docs.tacc.utexas.edu/hpc/corral/ · academic · storage/tacc-corral-5-tb-free-per-pi-60-tb-year-beyond · JSON · compare

Free tier	'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost. For storage needs larger than 5TB, and for multiple project allocations, access to Corral is available at a cost of $60/TB/year.' 40 PB online + tape replica. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not metered in the doc, but there is no public HTTP download path — Corral is a mounted/POSIX store, so serving is not its purpose.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost. For storage needs larger than 5T
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	sftp, scp, rsync sftp
Tooling	POSIX with rsync/scp; TACC allocation portal.
Composes with	5 TB free × UT System PIs, then linear $60/TB/yr. The file-count rule is the real limiter: 'There is also a limit of 200,000 files per allocated terabyte' — at 5 TB that is 1 million files.
Reliability	Free 5 TB applies only to UT System institutions; everyone else pays $60/TB/yr, so this is a 5 TB niche tier, not a free archive.
Notes	'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost. For storage needs larger than 5TB, and for multiple project allocations, access to Corral is available at a cost of $60/TB/year.' 40 PB online + tape replica.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.tacc.utexas.edu/hpc/corral/	'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost ... $60/TB/year', 'limit of 200,000 files per allocated terabyte', '40PB of on-line storage' (last update August 4, 2026)
2026-10-21	tacc.utexas.edu/use-tacc/allocations/	'Users from non-US institutions are not eligible for PI status'

More fields (1)

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  "why": "'The first 5TB of storage for each PI, on one project, is available to researchers at all UT System institutions at no cost. For storage needs larger than 5TB, and for multiple project allocations, access to Corral is available at a cost of $60/TB/year.' 40 PB online + tape replica.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
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Unknown or withheld values (6)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted