Mat3ra – Materials R&D Cloud Platform

Mat3ra is a cloud platform for materials R&D developed by Exabyte Inc., located in Walnut Creek, California, with a Japanese subsidiary, Mat3ra Japan K.K., in Tokyo. It lets researchers design structures, run simulations and build AI models online without maintaining their own computing setup.

The platform offers an in-browser materials design environment, a web-based workflow designer, a command line, remote desktop and RESTful API, with engines such as Quantum ESPRESSO, VASP, LAMMPS and GROMACS. Open-source data standards organize materials data. Named users include Shell, the US Air Force, Tohoku University and ITOCHU Techno-Solutions.

• Materials designer: in-browser environment to build and edit structures.
• Workflow designer: web-based, interoperable modeling workflows.
• Simulation engines: Quantum ESPRESSO, VASP, LAMMPS, GROMACS and others.
• Machine learning infrastructure: data analytics and AI model building.
• Access options: command line, remote desktop and RESTful API.
• Security and collaboration: encryption and sharing within and between accounts.

A Vietnamese university lab could run DFT or molecular dynamics studies for battery or catalyst materials without a local cluster. A semiconductor or thin-film company could model film and interface properties. A materials R&D team could build property-prediction models from its own calculations.

Listed plans start free, with Pro at 360 USD per year and Enterprise at 3,600 USD per year with private data. Cloud high-performance computing removes the need for local clusters. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Interoperable workflows and open standards ease collaboration within and between accounts.

Computational materials design is moving to the cloud and combining physics-based engines with machine learning. Public funding for AI-driven discovery is rising, for example the US DOE Genesis Mission. Vietnamese universities and research institutes with limited HPC can use pay-on-demand cloud simulation.

Operated by Exabyte Inc., 1212 Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek, California, with Mat3ra Japan K.K. in Tokyo. Its 2026-09-15 post reports leading AlphaFilm, a Genesis Mission project on thin-film discovery, and contributing to two other Genesis Mission projects.