The Work of NAISS

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) has compiled its annual report for 2023, which demonstrates the significance of NAISS resources for researchers in Sweden. Some highlights from the report are that 7,630 people were active in the infrastructure last year, and one in three of the users were female. Also, NAISS allocated resources to 1,924 projects spanning 32 research areas from across all the large research universities in Sweden, and more than 1,300 publications acknowledged NAISS or its predecessor, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), in 2023.

Preparations for the new Swedish-EuroHPC system Arrhenius are ongoing. As it is such a large undertaking, there are many juridical and economic details, in addition to technical specifications, that have to be sorted out. The official procurement process will start soon.

The kick-off meeting for NAISS’ new way of organising user support was held in April. The new approach is based on a collaboration between NAISS and eleven large universities in Sweden. The goal is to create a unified support organisation where each user can be helped by the expert with the most relevant knowledge, regardless of where the researcher or expert is working or where the hardware might be situated. NAISS is in the process of finalising bilateral branch agreements for organising this distributed expert support.

The NAISS User Forum and All-Hands Meeting will be held in Uppsala on the 1st-3rd of October. You can register now at www.naiss.se/event/user-forum-2024  and www.naiss.se/event/all-hands-meeting-2024 . We hope to see you all there!