PRACE

eurohpc-ju.europa.eu · Compute, Storage · 7 records · JSON

EuroHPC AI Factories Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
EuroHPC JU Benchmark Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
eu ai factories — playground access Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
eurohpc benchmark access (as a storage route) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
eurohpc ju benchmark access as a storage route Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
EuroHPC JU Regular Access (LUMI, Leonardo, MareNostrum 5, JUPITER) Storagefails: quotainstitution?card?R
PRACE Computedeadanonymousno cardD

EuroHPC AI Factories Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/ai-factories/ai-factories-access-mo · national HPC allocation · compute/eurohpc-ai-factories · JSON · compare

Free tier	Fast Lane access offers up to 50,000 GPU hours for a maximum of three months, with approval within four working days on a rolling first-in-first-out basis and expert support from the hosting AI Factory; Playground access sits below it for entry-level users. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; fast-turnaround allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The terms of reference require the applicant organisation to prove its status with a valid VAT number and a Participant Identification Code, and require the PI to hold an employment contract in that organisation, which excludes a person with no registered company. source The terms of reference require the applicant organisation to prove its status with a valid VAT number and a Participant Identification Code, and require the PI to hold an employment contract in that organisation, which excludes a person with no registered company.
Binding	write-gated The terms of reference require the applicant organisation to prove its status with a valid VAT number and a Participant Identification Code, and require the PI to hold an employment contract in that organisation, which excludes a person with no registered company.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Playground access is explicitly pitched as the way to gather the technical data that a Fast Lane or Large Scale application needs, so the two tiers form a ladder from a small test to 50,000 GPU hours, provided the applicant is a company.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	This is the largest single GPU-hour number found that is not gated on peer-reviewed science: 50,000 GPU hours, four working days, no competitive selection. The corpus already holds a storage-side row rejecting Playground access as 'industry only' with verdict fails-quota; that row is not wrong but it records no number. The binding constraint here is not the industry framing, it is the VAT number and PIC, which is the concrete thing a single person lacks. Recorded as fails-identity rather than fails-quota because the size is not the objection. The Playground per-application GPU-hour cap is published only in a system table that did not render through the broker, so it is null here.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (12)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/ai-factories/ai-factories-access-mo	'requiring up to 50,000 GPU hours for a maximum of 3 months' with approval within 4 working days on FIFO, quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/document/download/bd7aa666-bdf3-443	'The status of the organization will need to be proven by providing the valid organization VAT number and, if applicable, the Participant Identification Code (PIC)', quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/document/download/bd7aa666-bdf3-443	'the Principal Investigator has an employment contract in the organisation at the time of proposal submission and valid for at least 3 months after the end of the allocation period', quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/ai-factories/ai-factories-access-mo	'The Industrial Innovation Access modes are open and free-of-charge to AI SMEs (including startups) for innovation purposes', quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/large-scale-access-ai-factories_en	'For More than 50,000 GPU hours'; 'Access is granted within 10 working days from cut-off date'; allocations for 3, 6 or 12 months, quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/large-scale-access-ai-factories_en	deadline model multiple cut-off, roughly two per month from 30 Jan 2026 through 4 Jan 2027, quoted
2026-10-22	lumi-supercomputer.eu/technical-guide-for-compute-proposals/	'Your organization must be a startup, SME or other industrial organization. AI for Industrial Innovation calls are not open for academic use or public sector organizations'; 'Your organization must have a valid VAT number'; 'must be incorporated in a Horizon 2020 country', quoted
2026-10-22	lumi-ai-factory.eu/large-scale-access-to-lumi-ai-factory/	LUMI AI Factory Large Scale gives 'over 50.000 GPU hours, up to 1 year' free of charge for eligible companies, reported by the hosting entity
2026-10-22	lumi-supercomputer.eu/technical-guide-for-compute-proposals/	AI Factory call table: Playground '<= 5,000' GPU hours, Fast Lane '5,001 - 50,000', Large Scale '> 50,000', published by the LUMI hosting entity
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/playground-access-ai-factories_en	'Applications will be processed in the order they are received. There is no competitive selection process and access can be granted within two working days'; allocations for 1, 2 or 3 months, quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/ai-factories/faqs-ai-factories_en	'The AI Factories for Industrial Innovation call is open for applicants coming from industrial sector only'; 'Access time offered via the EUROHPC JU access calls is free of charge', quoted
2026-10-22	lumi-ai-factory.eu/pricing-and-eligibility/	'Please note that individual persons or temporary teams are not entitled to our services', quoted

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EuroHPC JU Benchmark Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark · national HPC allocation · compute/eurohpc-ju-benchmark · JSON · compare

Free tier	A continuously open call with monthly cut-offs, giving a limited number of node hours for code scalability tests or AI application tests before applying for Regular or Extreme Scale access; the maximum allocation period is three months, with a maximum time-to-resources-access of two to three weeks. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; exploratory / benchmark allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The benchmark tier is the cheapest door in the EuroHPC stack, but it is still awarded through a proposal evaluated by the Access Resource Committee, and the call text targets researchers and HPC application developers established in an EU Member State or a Horizon-associated country. source The benchmark tier is the cheapest door in the EuroHPC stack, but it is still awarded through a proposal evaluated by the Access Resource Committee, and the call text targets researchers and HPC application developers established in an EU Member State or a Horizon-associated country.
Binding	write-gated The benchmark tier is the cheapest door in the EuroHPC stack, but it is still awarded through a proposal evaluated by the Access Resource Committee, and the call text targets researchers and HPC application developers established in an EU Member State or a Horizon-associated country.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The benchmark result is designed to feed a Regular or Extreme Scale proposal, so the tier's real value is the scaling data it produces, not the node hours.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The maximum node-hour figure per system is not stated in the call body; the page says the exact amount is subject to the systems participating in each cut-off. A number here would be invented, so it is null. The eligibility sentence comes from the Regular Access page, whose terms the benchmark call shares; the benchmark call's own information-for-applicants PDF was not opened, so the precise benchmark eligibility wording is one step removed and is the thing to check if a reconciler wants this rung raised.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark	'Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months', quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark	deadline model multiple cut-off with monthly dates from 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2033, quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark	'a first-come-first-serve principle will be applied and proposals will be awarded according to the available monthly quota of resources', quoted
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-regular-a	Regular Access meta description: 'Researchers from academia, research institutes, public authorities, and industry established or located in an EU Member State or in a country associated with Horizon 2020 can apply', quoted

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eu ai factories — playground access Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/playground-access-ai-factories_en · rejected-provider · storage/eu-ai-factories-playground-access · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free, FIFO, no competitive selection, access within 2 working days — the closest thing in Europe to a self-serve allocation. But it is aimed at 'Industry users' (SMEs/startups) and opens a 1 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	Free, FIFO, no competitive selection, access within 2 working days — the closest thing in Europe to a self-serve allocation. But it is aimed at 'Industry users' (SMEs/startups) and opens a 1
Notes	Free, FIFO, no competitive selection, access within 2 working days — the closest thing in Europe to a self-serve allocation. But it is aimed at 'Industry users' (SMEs/startups) and opens a 1
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/playground-access-ai-factories_en	Free, FIFO, no competitive selection, access within 2 working days — the closest thing in Europe to a self-serve allocation. But it is aimed at 'Industry users' (SMEs/startups) and opens a 1

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eurohpc benchmark access (as a storage route) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark · rejected-provider · storage/eurohpc-benchmark-access · JSON · compare

Free tier	Explicitly a short pre-allocation test: 'Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months.' No storage allocation and no renewal path beyond re-app 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	Explicitly a short pre-allocation test: 'Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months.' No storage allocation and no renewal path beyond re-app
Notes	Explicitly a short pre-allocation test: 'Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months.' No storage allocation and no renewal path beyond re-app
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark	Explicitly a short pre-allocation test: 'Users receive a limited number of node hours the maximum allocation period is three months.' No storage allocation and no renewal path beyond re-app

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eurohpc ju benchmark access as a storage route Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark · rejected-provider · storage/eurohpc-ju-benchmark-access-as-a-storage-route · JSON · compare

Free tier	Benchmark access gives 'a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months' for code-scaling tests. No storage allocation is described at all. Regular/Extreme acce 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	Benchmark access gives 'a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months' for code-scaling tests. No storage allocation is described at all. Regular/Extreme acce
Notes	Benchmark access gives 'a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three months' for code-scaling tests. No storage allocation is described at all. Regular/Extreme acce
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-benchmark	Benchmark access gives 'a limited number of node hours the maximum allocation period is three months' for code-scaling tests. No storage allocation is described at all. Regular/Extreme acce

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Unknown or withheld values (15)

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EuroHPC JU Regular Access (LUMI, Leonardo, MareNostrum 5, JUPITER) Storage

fails: quotainstitution?card?R

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-regular-a · academic · storage/eurohpc-ju-regular-access · JSON · compare

Free tier	Node-hours plus an associated storage quota set by the hosting entity (LUMI-O alone defaults to 150 TB per LUMI project). Not a standalone storage call. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free for allocation holders within the facility; object storage endpoints (LUMI-O S3) are internet-reachable.
Identity	institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone s3
Tooling	LUMI-O is S3-compatible (rclone 's3'); other sites expose Lustre/POSIX plus Globus.
Composes with	Storage comes attached to a compute award, so a storage-heavy proposal can be packaged inside a modest compute request. One-year allocations with successive cut-offs allow re-application.
Reliability	Well-run; the constraint is purely eligibility and the compute-justification burden.
Notes	Node-hours plus an associated storage quota set by the hosting entity (LUMI-O alone defaults to 150 TB per LUMI project). Not a standalone storage call.
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	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/supercomputers-acces	eligible-country list; 'Researchers from academia, research institutes, public authorities, and industry established or located in an EU Member State or in a Participating State...'
2026-10-21	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-regular-a	'The allocations are granted for one (1) year'; cut-offs 30 Mar 2026 / 4 Sep 2026; tracks Scientific / Industry / Public Administration

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Unknown or withheld values (7)

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PRACE Compute

deadanonymousno cardD

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/supercomputers-acces · national HPC allocation · compute/prace · JSON · compare

Free tier	PRACE no longer runs its own access calls; at the end of 2022 the EuroHPC JU took over management of the peer-review and support process, and the PRACE site now serves an archive of calls that closed in 2023. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	anonymous not published
Binding	none There is nothing left to apply for: the programme's allocation function moved into the EuroHPC JU, so the successor question is answered by the EuroHPC rows rather than by a PRACE row.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	PRACE's review machinery is the same machinery now operating the EuroHPC calls, so its successor is the EuroHPC Benchmark, Development, Regular and Extreme Scale set recorded elsewhere in this file.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The assignment named 'the PRACE successor' as an open item. The answer is that the successor is not a separate brand: it is the EuroHPC JU, which absorbed PRACE's peer-review process at the end of 2022. A reconciler should treat PRACE as resolved into the EuroHPC rows and not open a PRACE record in the dossier. No quota is recorded because there is no live call. Identity cost is recorded as 'none' rather than a normal vocabulary value, because a withdrawn programme has no applicant and no identity to produce; recording 'institution' here would imply a door that no longer exists.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/supercomputers-acces	'At the end of 2022, the EuroHPC JU, as owner of an increasing number of world-class European supercomputers, took over from PRACE the management of this peer-review and support process', quoted
2026-10-22	prace-ri.eu/prace-archive/legacy-hpc-access/eurohpc-access/e	PRACE's Regular Access page lists its last open call as the 2023-07-07 cut-off and files every later item under 'Closed Calls'

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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