The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program has opened its 2026 Call for Proposals, offering researchers the opportunity to access high-performance computing systems.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or ORNL, said Friday interested researchers can send in their proposals through June 16.
What Is the INCITE Program?
INCITE is a program managed by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It aims to provide scientific teams the chance to obtain significant computational resources for major research projects in AI, data analytics, scientific modeling, simulation and other fields.
The program facilitates research that requires extreme-scale computing power. It will provide as much as 60 percent of the available node-hours on ORNL’s Frontier exascale system. INCITE will also provide allocations on the Polaris supercomputer and the Aurora exascale system at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
Researchers are awarded 500,000 to 1,000,000 node-hours on Aurora and Frontier, while 100,000 to 250,000 node-hours are allocated on Polaris, with the potential for larger allocations for exceptional proposals.
The program welcomes applications from researchers from academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations and federal agencies from around the world. Applications are encouraged from various disciplines, such as astrophysics, biology, chemistry and earth sciences.
Selected proposals must showcase a compelling need for the computing resources and demonstrate the ability to harness them. Furthermore, the project should align with INCITE’s objectives of advancing scientific discovery and technological innovation. The awards are to be announced in November while access to the resources will commence in 2026.
