ENCCS News

The spring was a busy time for the EuroCC National Competence Centre Sweden (ENCCS). We continue to provide a platform for industry, academia and the public sector to access high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to satisfy their research and development needs. At the same time, training is still a staple in our activities, and ENCCS organised several teaching events during the first half of the year. In addition, two HPC experts joined the ENCCS team in the spring, and another will join us after the summer. Meet them (and the rest of ENCCS) on our team page ( enccs.se/people )!

Industry Support

ENCCS continues to support companies in satisfying their compute needs using EuroHPC systems. We have recently helped a KTH-incubated startup Mappi that develops personalised learning paths in mathematics ( enccs.se/success-story/2025/05/mappi-ai-math-education ); they fine-tuned some open source AI models to create graphics explaining complex mathematical concepts. Another relevant use case was tackled by the AI consultancy company 42 labs ( enccs.se/success-story/2025/01/42labs-accesses-marenostrum-5-to-develop-a-swedish-llm ). They used the MareNostrum 5 system at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to fine-tune a Swedish-speaking large language model (LLM).

Access to EuroHPC Systems

Researchers in the public sector, industry and academia can continue to access EuroHPC systems through various calls ( eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/supercomputers-access-calls_en ) with different allocation sizes. Participating in the smaller Development Access and Benchmark Access calls can pave the way to utilising the Regular Access and Extreme Scale Access modes, with substantial compute resources being provided. The new AI for Science and Collaborative EU Projects Access mode ( eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-ai-science-and-collaborative-eu-projects_en ) in particular provides large amounts of GPU compute resources for cutting-edge research in foundational models and the ethical use of AI.

Training Events

The autumn featured an inspiring line-up of training events organised by ENCCS and its European partners, including the yearly iteration of the Quantum Autumn School that was held over five days in November. If you are interested in attending future training events, keep an eye on the ENCCS events page ( enccs.se/events ).

Note that a new HPC in Europe portal ( hpc-portal.eu ) serves as a gateway to help you keep up with the European network of competence centres and centres of excellence.

MIMER, the Swedish AI Factory

In parallel with national competence centres, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has awarded funding for seven new AI-oriented systems in Europe. Sweden was awarded one of these. The system will be known as MIMER ( mimer-aifactory.eu ) and will be co-hosted by Linköping University and the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). This project is happening in parallel with ENCCS and, in addition to providing the hardware, expertise and training will be offered in connection to it. (For more information about what the project will encompass, see “Mimer: The Swedish AI Innovation Factory” .)

Stay tuned with these exciting developments through the ENCCS website ( enccs.se ) and LinkedIn page ( www.linkedin.com/company/enccs )!