NAIRR Pilot

nairrpilot.org · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

NAIRR Pilot Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
nairr pilot (us) as a storage route Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

NAIRR Pilot Compute

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nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations · GPU cloud · compute/nairr-pilot · JSON · compare

Free tier	Compute, model and platform allocations from federal agencies and contributing partners, 'awarded for twelve (12) months duration', spread across a resource catalogue that includes national-lab and commercial partner capacity. The eligibility sentence and the email rule are the whole finding: 'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions including academic institutions ..., non-profits, federal agencies or federally funded R&D centers, state, local, or tribal agencies, startups and small businesses with federal grants.' and 'Note that the email address you provide must be your institutional email. Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution a US institutional email address: the call states 'the email address you provide must be your institutional email. Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered', and the applicant must be at a US-based institution. A university briefing deck adds that U.S. citizenship is not required unless a resource says so, reported. No card or hold is stated; the proposal also needs a three-page PDF and survives a peer review
Limits	write-gated a US institutional email is checked before the proposal is read, and the proposal itself needs a three-page PDF plus a peer review, so an unaffiliated applicant is excluded twice. source a US institutional email is checked before the proposal is read, and the proposal itself needs a three-page PDF plus a peer review, so an unaffiliated applicant is excluded twice.
Binding	write-gated a US institutional email is checked before the proposal is read, and the proposal itself needs a three-page PDF plus a peer review, so an unaffiliated applicant is excluded twice.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	None. The allocation is bound to a US institution and to a named PI whose affiliation is published, so it cannot be held by an individual.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Worth recording because NAIRR is the program a reader is most likely to be told to try, and the exclusion is unusually explicit: not only an institution, but an institutional email address, with the .gmail case named. The one softening clause is real and should not be overstated - 'Proposals for research activities without merit-reviewed support will be accepted' removes the federal-grant precondition inside the eligible institution class, but does not create an unaffiliated lane. The pilot's own end date is unbounded ('until the end of the NAIRR Pilot program or until all resources have been committed'), which is a second reason not to treat it as durable capacity.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (6)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations	'Projects will be awarded for twelve (12) months duration'; 'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions'; 'the email address you provide must be your institutional email. Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered'; 'Proposals for research activities without merit-reviewed support will be accepted, but will be subject to additional review', quoted; page 200
2026-10-22	nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations	'Proposals require completing a form and uploading a three-page PDF proposal'; 'All supported projects will have the name of the principal investigator (PI), their affiliation, the project title, and project abstract posted on the NAIRR Pilot website'; a 1-month and 6-month update plus a three-page final report are required
2026-10-22	www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/national-ai-researc	a contributing partner's restatement agrees: 'applicants must be US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions including academic institutions, non-profits, federal agencies or federally funded R&D centers, state, local, or tribal agencies, or startups and small businesses with federal grants'
2026-10-22	nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations	'This call is open to meritorious proposals by US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions'; 'Requests providing personal email addresses such as .gmail.com addresses will not be considered', quoted
2026-10-22	www.depts.ttu.edu/hpcc/downloads/2025-09-29_Requesting-Resou	'Principal Investigator / Lead Instructor and all other users must perform work via an eligible organization physically based in the U.S.'; 'U.S. citizenship is not required, unless noted in resource-specific requirements', reported from a university briefing deck
2026-10-22	nairrpilot.org/	NSF established a NAIRR Operations Center on 1 September 2026 led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, so the programme is transitioning rather than closing

More fields (1)

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nairr pilot (us) as a storage route Storage

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nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations · rejected-provider · storage/nairr-pilot-as-a-storage-route · JSON · compare

Free tier	Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research; eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email, and the resource list is comput 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	Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research; eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email, and the resource list is comput
Notes	Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research; eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email, and the resource list is comput
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	nairrpilot.org/opportunities/allocations	Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email, and the resource list is comput

More fields (1)

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  "why": "Twelve-month compute/model awards for AI research; eligibility is 'US-based researchers and educators from US-based institutions' with an institutional email, and the resource list is comput",
  "retry_when": "never; it is not storage",
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

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