NSF ACCESS
Free US allocations on academic supercomputers such as NCSA Delta (Slingshot, A100, A40, H200 and MI100 GPUs) for researchers and educators; no NSF award required.
Facts
Source per value- Type What kind of provider it is: hyperscaler, managed HPC service, GPU cloud, sovereign or EU-hosted cloud, publicly funded supercomputer, or simulation-software cloud.
- public-supercomputer 1
- Fabric Primary node-to-node network the provider states for its HPC or GPU clusters. RDMA means the provider names RDMA cluster networking without naming the transport.
- Slingshot 1
- Interconnect detail Speeds and instance families as the provider states them.
- Delta: 200 Gb/s HPE Slingshot 1
- Schedulers Job schedulers and orchestrators the provider offers or documents.
- Not published
- Slurm Offers or documents Slurm (managed, or as a supported deployment).
- Not published
- Kubernetes Offers managed Kubernetes for its clusters.
- Not published
- CPUs CPU models the provider names for its HPC or GPU hosts.
- Not published
- GPUs / accelerators Accelerators the provider lists, as listed on its own pages.
- Delta: NVIDIA A100 (40 GB), A40, H200 (141 GB); AMD MI100 2
- H100 Lists NVIDIA H100.
- Not published
- Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B200, B300, GB200, GB300).
- Not published
- AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU.
- Yes 2
- Bare metal Sells non-virtualised bare-metal nodes.
- Not published
- H100 $/GPU-hr $/GPU-hr Published per-GPU-hour price of an H100. Basis (on-demand, capacity block, derived from an 8-GPU price) is in the next column.
- Not published
- H100 price basis What the H100 price is: purchase mode, instance size and any derivation.
- Not published
- Price checked Date the price was read from the provider page.
- Not published
- Pricing model How the provider charges, as it states it.
- Free for researchers and educators; entry-level allocation needs only a project description 3
- Regions Locations the provider names on its own pages.
- Delta at NCSA, Illinois 1
- EU-hosted Names data-centre capacity in an EU member state.
- Not published
- Sovereignty claim The provider's own sovereignty or compliance statement, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- Not published
- Software catalogue Pre-configured application catalogue a platform provider advertises.
- Not published
- Runs on Clouds and hardware partners a platform provider lists.
- Not published
Sources
- NCSA Delta accessed 2026-11-11
- NCSA Delta hardware accessed 2026-11-11
- ACCESS allocations accessed 2026-11-11
- Delta allocations accessed 2026-11-11
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