PSC Neocortex

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PSC Neocortex Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

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Free tier	Free wafer-scale accelerator time on Cerebras CS-3 systems, allocated through the NSF ACCESS programme: 'There is no cost to use Neocortex for non-proprietary research.' Eligibility is explicit and institutional: 'Projects must be non-proprietary. Applicants must be a researcher or educator at a US academic or non-profit research institution. A principal investigator (PI) is required. PIs may not be a high school, undergraduate or graduate student; a qualified advisor must serve in this capacity.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; allocation
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated a PI at a US academic or non-profit institution plus a reviewed ACCESS allocation request, so identity fails before any quota does. source a PI at a US academic or non-profit institution plus a reviewed ACCESS allocation request, so identity fails before any quota does.
Binding	write-gated a PI at a US academic or non-profit institution plus a reviewed ACCESS allocation request, so identity fails before any quota does.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The allocation is the only route to a CS-3 that does not involve a purchase, and it chains with publishing the result. It breaks for a user at the PI requirement, which no amount of preparation substitutes for.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded because a free CS-3 is the largest accelerator and a reader will otherwise spend a session looking for a self-serve door. The allocation size is null: ACCESS awards vary and no node-hour figure is published on the page read. The Argonne route is a second door on the same class of hardware with the same institutional gate; the corpus already carries INCITE and Director's Discretionary records, so this entry is the Cerebras-specific door only.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.psc.edu/resources/neocortex/allocations/	'Applicants must be a researcher or educator at a US academic or non-profit research institution. A principal investigator (PI) is required. PIs may not be a high school, undergraduate or graduate student', quoted
2026-10-22	www.psc.edu/resources/neocortex/	'There is no cost to use Neocortex for non-proprietary research', quoted, with proprietary work routed to a Corporate Affiliates programme
2026-10-22	www.alcf.anl.gov/alcf-ai-testbed	the same accelerator appears at Argonne as a Cerebras CS-3 with 24 nodes, 'Available through an allocation request'

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "national-programme",
  "free_tier_kind": "allocation",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "Cerebras CS-3 wafer-scale engine, 2 nodes",
   "gpu_count": 2
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated