ACCESS Allocations (Explore, Discover, Accelerate, Maximize)
Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources, granted as ACCESS Credits that are exchanged for time on partner systems. Four project tiers scale from a starter allocation to large production computing.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No cash is awarded. Value is delivered as ACCESS Credits exchangeable for resource time; the credit amount differs by project type (Explore, Discover, Accelerate, Maximize) and the fetched page does not publish per-tier credit figures. Half the credits are released after a progress report; a one-tim
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Requests are submitted through the ACCESS allocations system rather than on fixed deadlines; the page states an Explore project can be set up in as little as 1-2 business days.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Open to U.S.-based PIs at any level of computing expertise; the requesting person must hold the PI, co-PI or Allocation Manager role on the project. Resources are provided at no cost because they are NSF-funded.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- computing allocations · cloud and hpc resources · large-scale data analysis
- Apply at
- https://access-ci.org/get-started/for-researchers/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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