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Collaborate with PDC

The PDC Center for High Performance Computing (PDC) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology hosts the most powerful supercomputer within the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS). Part of that system is available for industrial use.
PDC collaborates with many businesses from different market sectors (including the life sciences, manufacturing, automotive, transport and energy industries) by providing supercomputing and storage resources, as well as consultancy services, for R&D projects run by industrial researchers around the world.

Why use PDC’s services in your research

Do you need to perform large-scale simulations or optimisations?

  • PDC has an HPE Cray EX with 163,584 CPU cores and 496 GPU devices, along with a range of experts who can assist your company with using commercial or free software, as well as helping with coding in specific research areas. (For more information about the system, see About the Dardel HPC system .)

PDC can assist your business R&D with

 What types of companies collaborate with PDC?

  • PDC works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as large businesses - so you are welcome to contact us, no matter the size of your company or your research question!
  • Most of PDC’s current industrial partners are from Sweden and Europe, but we welcome enquiries from any business needing help with high-performance computing (HPC) research.
  • PDC is a member of the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC) and provides HPC services and consultancy to a range of industrial partners within SeRC.

Example of PDC’s partners

You can read about some of the companies and organisations collaborating with PDC  and the type of R&D they are doing using resources at PDC. 

Contact PDC for HPC assistance if your company

  • Wants to undertake research using PDC’s resources and services
  • Is interested in co-ownership of resources hosted at PDC
  • Needs some advice or assistance from our expert consultants
  • Needs a master’s student for a research project

Examples of business R&D collaborations with PDC

PDC’s largest industrial partner is Scania. The figure shows a volume rendering of the instantaneous velocity magnitude on the leeward side of a Scania R20 Highline truck at crosswind conditions. (Source: Scania)

Take advantage of PDC’s HPC services for your R&D

Apply to use PDC’s HPC services

If your business would like assistance with high-performance computing or to use our facilities, please contact our Business Unit  directly so we can discuss the best solution for you.

Prices to use PDC’s HPC services

You can read about the prices  for using PDC's HPC services and which services may be available free of charge.

Information about how to use PDC’s HPC services

After your company has made a collaborative agreement with PDC regarding how we can help your company, you will be able to find information about all aspects of using PDC’s services (from getting an account to running software or storing data) on the PDC User Support pages  or by contacting PDC Support directly through the support pages.

Acknowledging use of PDC’s HPC services

If you are awarded free allocations of time and/or storage at PDC (for example, in the context of a close collaboration, beta testing or short software trials) or utilise free assistance from application or system experts through PDC, you are asked to acknowledge the use of PDC’s HPC services appropriately .