Fugaku Trial
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- HPCI Shared Storage (Japan, RIKEN R-CCS + Univ. of Tokyo, Gfarm) Storagecaveatinstitution?card?Rwrite-gated
- Fugaku Trial Access Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
Fugaku Trial Access Compute
fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
| Free tier | Trial Access Projects on Fugaku award up to 100,000 node-hours per project, free of charge, with the call open throughout the year, a project period of up to half a year, and screening results notified within one to two weeks; a First-touch option fixes 1,000 node-hours per project for a simplified application. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; exploratory / trial allocation |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | not applicable |
| Egress | not stated |
| Identity | institution not published |
| Limits |
The project representative must obtain approval from the head of their organisation and must belong to a legal entity, so an individual with no organisation cannot lead the project even though the call is free and open all year. |
| Binding | write-gated The project representative must obtain approval from the head of their organisation and must belong to a legal entity, so an individual with no organisation cannot lead the project even though the call is free and open all year. |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | The 1,000 NH first-touch tier needs only an online form and eligibility check, so it is the cheapest way to obtain a Fugaku scaling number that a later full proposal can cite. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The strongest single number in this assignment: 100,000 Fugaku node-hours free, open all year, no competitive expert review at the trial tier. Fugaku nodes carry one A64FX CPU with 48 compute cores plus 4 assistant cores, so 100,000 node-hours is roughly 4.8 million core-hours; that conversion is arithmetic from the published node design, not a quoted figure. The binding door is the organisational signature, not money and not the science case. Foreign non-resident participants are explicitly allowed but require separate R-CCS approval under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act. |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21 |
Evidence (5)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.hpci-office.jp/en/using_hpci/proposal_submission_current | Available Resources per project 'Up to 100,000 Node-Hours'; First-touch option '1,000 Node-Hours per project (fixed)'; usage fee 'None'; project period up to half a year; call opens throughout the year, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hpci-office.jp/en/using_hpci/proposal_submission_current | 'Awarding result will be notified as soon as the screening process is completed. (Estimated to be within one or two weeks after a proposal is received.)', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hpci-office.jp/en/using_hpci/beginner/beginner_calls | Trial Access screening method is 'Online application content confirmation and eligibility screening' for first-touch and 'Review of the application form and eligibility screening' for the 100,000 NH tier, against 'Expert screening' for General Access, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.riken.jp/medialibrary/riken/collab/programs/fugaku_trial | Proposal instructions section 2: the general-category project representative is 'a person belonging to a legal entity (university, research institute, incorporated association, company, etc.) regardless of whether inside or outside Japan', except that company employees must belong to a company registered in Japan, quoted in Japanese |
| 2026-10-22 | www.hpci-office.jp/faq_list | FAQ: use by non-residents of Japan and by non-Japanese nationals 'is possible'; a non-resident may be project representative; for Fugaku, projects with non-resident participants need separate R-CCS approval, quoted in Japanese |
More fields (1)
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