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SDSC Allocations

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SDSC makes high-end computing and data resources available to the U.S. academic research community at no charge. Requests for access are merit-reviewed by a committee of computational scientists from many disciplines and from institutions across the country. The following table will guide you through our allocation process.

NOTE: Users with computing allocations automatically obtain an archival storage allocation. For a storage-only allocation, see the table below.

Computing Allocations Storage & Data Allocations
  1. Choose An Allocation Size
    • Development
    • Medium Resource (MRAC)
    • Large Resource (LRAC)
  2. Choose A Resource
    • IBM Power4 DataStar
    • TeraGrid Linux Cluster
    • IBM BlueGene/L
  3. Write Your Proposal
  4. Submit Your Proposal
    • Partnership Online Proposal System (POPS)
  1. Choose An Allocation Type
    • Long-Term Storage
    • Data Collection Hosting
    • Database Hosting
  2. Choose A Resource
    • GPFS on DataStar
    • SAM-QFS
    • HPSS
  3. Write Your Proposal
  4. Submit Your Proposal
    • datacentral-allocations@sdsc.edu

Other NSF Cyberinfrastructure Sites

SDSC is also part of the NSF-supported program that makes additional resources available at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and TeraGrid sites. All sites share the same review process and committees. For resources available from NCSA, PSC, and other TeraGrid partners, see the TeraGrid Compute Resources, and TeraGrid Data and Visualization Resources.


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