Supercomputing in Sweden

SNIC supercomputer centres

There are six academic supercomputer centres in Sweden, which are all members of SNIC :

• the Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering  (C3SE) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg,

• the High Performance Computing Center North  (HPC2N) at Umeå University,

• Lunarc  at Lund University in Lund,

• the National Supercomputer Centre  at Linköping University in Linköping,

• the PDC Center for High Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and

• the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science  (UPPMAX) at Uppsala University.

How the SNIC centres assist HPC research

SNIC centres and academic research

• The six SNIC centres provide systems for large scale computation, as well as data storage, and also make the services of application experts available to researchers needing advanced user support. Swedish academic researchers can apply to use the services of PDC and the other centres through SNIC . 

• In addition, many of PDC's services, and those of the other SNIC centres, are available internationally to European academic researchers via the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe ( PRACE ) infrastructure.

SNIC centres and business/industry research

• Industry researchers are eligible to apply for some PRACE programmes , and companies can also make arrangements directly with PDC to use our services for research purposes. Further information is available here  about using PDC's services for academic research and here  for business research.

Costs for using HPC resources through SNIC or PRACE

• Note that using PDC's resources (and those of the other SNIC centres) through SNIC or PRACE is free of charge.