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Community Programs

Last updated: Oct 7, 2025

1. Free Compute Tier for the Platform Users.

In collaboration with our cloud provider partners, we are offering a Limited Free Compute program for our platform users.

The primary goal of this program is to support academic research and education in the field of materials science and enable the community to explore the capabilities of our platform.

The program is targeted for users with current academic affiliations, however, we welcome private parties as well.

The free tier access is available through cluster-101 only.

1.1. Free Compute Eligibility.

To be eligible for the Limited Free Compute program, users must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a registered user of the platform.
  • Have a valid academic affiliation (eg. student, faculty, researcher) or be a private party interested in exploring the platform capabilities.
  • If affiliated with an academic institution, use an email address associated with the institution (ie. hosted on a " .edu" domain) during the registration.
  • (Optional) Provide information about the nature of the anticipated work (eg. research topic, educational purpose, etc.)
  • Agree to the conditions outlined below.

1.2. Applying for Free Compute.

As of now, no seprate application is needed. If you meet the eligibility criteria above, you can start using the platform and its resources right away.

We will review the user base periodically and reach out to the users who meet the eligibility criteria to inform them about the program and its benefits.

And consequently, we will screen out the users who do not meet the criteria.

1.3. Free Compute Conditions.

Free access is limited to the certain compute resources and is subject to other limitations as below.

1.3.1. Limitations

As below:

Feature Explanation
Max nodes per job 1
Max cores per job Per Queue Policy
Max job walltime Per Queue Policy
Max job queued per user 10
Available Queues "D" only
Available Resources "cluster-101" only
Included Disk Quota 10 Gb

For more information, please see cluster-101.

2. Acknowledgements

Any/all published work derived from any of the Community Programs listed here must include the following acknowledgement and citation.

Acknowledgement text

The authors performed this work partially or in full using the Mat3ra.com 
platform [REFERENCE TO THE BELOW CITATION].

Citation

Timur Bazhirov, "Data-centric online ecosystem for digital materials science.", 
arxiv.org preprint, 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10838

In Bibtex format:

@article{Mat3ra-Platform-Reference,
    title={Data-centric online ecosystem for digital materials science},
    author={Bazhirov, Timur},
    journal={arxiv.org/abs/1902.10838},
    year={2019},
}

3. Publicity.

We plan to select some of the work performed under the Free Compute Tier to be highlighted in the online publication sources, similar to the below:

We will contact select users in advance to request permission for this. If you are interested in having your work highlighted, please let us know by sending an email to support@mat3ra.com.

4. Feedback.

We welcome feedback from the users of the Community Programs listed here. Please send your feedback, suggestions, and any issues you encounter to support@mat3ra.com.