Department of Energy opens Call for Proposals for its INCITE program
The program allocates up to 60 percent of available node-hours on three high-performance computers, including Frontier at ORNL.
Have a really big project that requires access to some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing systems?
If the answer is “yes,” the Department of Energy’s Office of Science has issued its 2026 Call for Proposals for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program that allow researchers to apply for access to some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing systems.
The proposal submission window runs from April 11 to June 16, 2025, offering an opportunity for scientific teams to secure substantial computational resources for large-scale research projects in fields such as scientific modeling, simulation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
INCITE supports groundbreaking research that demands extreme-scale computing power. The program allocates up to 60 percent of available node-hours on the Frontier exascale system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as the Polaris supercomputer and the Aurora exascale system at Argonne National Laboratory. Individual awards typically range from 500,000 to 1,000,000 node-hours on Aurora and Frontier and 100,000 to 250,000 node-hours on Polaris, with the possibility of larger allocations for exceptional proposals.
The selection process involves a rigorous peer review, assessing both scientific merit and computational readiness. Awards will be announced in November 2025, with access to resources beginning in 2026. For further details and submission guidelines, visit the INCITE program website.
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