All of the major cloud providers offer grants for public research
https://www.amazon.science/research-awards https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/programs/credits/research https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-academic-research/NVIDIA offers discounts https://developer.nvidia.com/education-pricing
eg. for Australia, the National Computing Infrastructure allows researchers to reserve time on:
- 160 nodes each containing four Nvidia V100 GPUs and two 24-core Intel Xeon Scalable 'Cascade Lake' processors.
- 2 nodes of the NVIDIA DGX A100 system, with 8 A100 GPUs per node.
https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-systems