INCITE

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INCITE (ALCF + OLCF, US DOE) Storagecaveatinstitution?card?R
INCITE Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

INCITE (ALCF + OLCF, US DOE) Storage

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doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/ · academic · storage/incite · JSON · compare

Free tier	100 trillion bytes (~100 TB) of data storage awarded across the programme each year; per-project archival quota at OLCF is 200 TB (shared across Project/World/User Archive on Kronos). unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Tenured infrastructure; data survives, but the allocation expires and the archival quota can be clawed back after project end - treat as renewable-while-funded, not permanent.
Egress	Globus/GridFTP and SSH transfer free to allocation holders; no egress meter. Data is not a public HTTP origin.
Identity	institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Limits	write-gated reviewed annual renewal request source Annual call only (mid-April to mid/late June), awards 1-3 years with a peer-reviewed annual renewal request. Post-project archival storage is explicitly at the facility's discretion ('The facilities reserve the right to limit the amount and duration of archival storage once a project has been completed'). Data must be research data
Binding	none 100 TB is awarded to projects by a review panel; there is no route from an unaffiliated individual to an allocation.
Interface	s3, sftp, scp, ssh posix
Tooling	SSH/scp/sftp, Globus, Lustre + HPSS/Kronos nearline mounts; no S3.
Composes with	One allocation = one project directory on a 100+ PB Lustre (Eagle/Orion) plus up to 200 TB nearline archive. Storage is not separately metered, so a storage-heavy proposal can request a large quota against a small compute request - but the proposal must still justify compute.
Reliability	Tenured infrastructure; data survives, but the allocation expires and the archival quota can be clawed back after project end - treat as renewable-while-funded, not permanent.
Notes	100 trillion bytes (~100 TB) of data storage awarded across the programme each year; per-project archival quota at OLCF is 200 TB (shared across Project/World/User Archive on Kronos).
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/	'100 trillion bytes of data storage space'; '1-3 years (renewable)'; 'Multiyear awards must submit annual renewal requests'
2026-10-21	doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/	Q10: 'Are foreign researchers and teams eligible to apply? Yes... U.S. collaborations are encouraged, but not required.' Q11: 'the solicitation is open to individual researchers'
2026-10-21	doeleadershipcomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/123/2025	'open to US- and non-US-based researchers and research organizations'; 'Citizenship and specific funding sources are not qualifiers'
2026-10-21	docs.olcf.ornl.gov/data/index.html	Project Archive 200 TB, no purge flag

Unknown or withheld values (5)

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$.retention.notes not-extracted

INCITE Compute

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doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/ · national HPC allocation · compute/incite · JSON · compare

Free tier	Up to 60% of the allocatable time on Frontier (OLCF) and Aurora (ALCF) is allocated through INCITE for calendar year 2027; for each resource, allocations are anticipated to be between 500K and 2M node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, and individual awards may be higher. Non-proprietary research projects are not charged for access. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; merit-reviewed allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The PI may be foreign and unaffiliated on paper, but the award is conditional on each participating institution signing the ANL/ORNL user agreement, and the applicant must already hold all funding and resources needed to execute the campaign at application time. source The PI may be foreign and unaffiliated on paper, but the award is conditional on each participating institution signing the ANL/ORNL user agreement, and the applicant must already hold all funding and resources needed to execute the campaign at application time.
Binding	write-gated The PI may be foreign and unaffiliated on paper, but the award is conditional on each participating institution signing the ANL/ORNL user agreement, and the applicant must already hold all funding and resources needed to execute the campaign at application time.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The awarded resource is time plus 100 trillion bytes of storage across the programme; it does not include labour, travel or postdoc funding, so it composes only with a grant the applicant already holds.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Two review phases: an international peer-review panel on scientific merit, then a technical assessment of computational readiness by LCF staff. Requests under 20% of the average award are redirected to Director's Discretionary or ALCC. Early Career Track reserves 10% of allocatable time for PIs within 10 years of a PhD who have not previously been INCITE PI. Polaris is no longer available; Aurora and Frontier are the only INCITE resources for 2027. The 20% utilisation criterion is the real filter at a user's scale: a solo researcher must show the campaign consumes a fifth of an exascale machine. Node-hour to GPU-hour conversion depends on the system (Frontier nodes carry 4 MI300A APUs), so the corpus should not convert without a per-system figure.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/	allocations anticipated between 500K and 2M node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, up to 60% of allocatable time, CY2027, quoted
2026-10-22	doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/	'US and non-US based Individuals and/or teams of researchers from academia, national laboratories, industry, and federal agencies are eligible to apply', quoted
2026-10-22	doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/	application window Wednesday April 8, 2026 through 8:00 pm EDT Monday June 15, 2026; awards announced November 2026, quoted
2026-10-22	doeleadershipcomputing.org/call-for-proposals/	'each participating institution on the awarded proposal must accept or already have signed the user agreement; otherwise, access by the institution's researcher(s) to the LCF system will be delayed', quoted
2026-10-22	doeleadershipcomputing.org/incite-faqs/	FAQ 8: 'researchers are expected to have all funding and any other elements necessary to ensure the success of their research project in place at the time of their application'; FAQ 26 repeats it as an eligibility condition

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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