Neither grant agencies nor universities are ready to pay for commercial compute out of grant money. They'd rather have you run analysis on your work laptop/desk

Neither grant agencies nor universities are ready to pay for commercial compute out of grant money. They'd rather have you run analysis on your work laptop/desktop they already provided. Even some of the folks who manage the HPC are unwilling to help researchers (many of whom are not programmers) to use the HPC, lest they mess up and damage the hardware. Source: I work at a tri-institutional collaboration research center in Georgia.