NAISS SENS Small 2025

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Open for Proposals

This NAISS-SENS round is for small-scale projects involving sensitive personal data on the Bianca system.

Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found here.

For a SENS Small project, the abstract should include a brief description of the planned work and a clear statement that the work involves sensitive personal data. A short motivation of the requested resources is also appropriate.

Make sure that this project is covered by a Data Processing Agreement (personuppgiftbiträdesavtal)

See further information.

Deadlines and Decisions

Proposals are processed monthly. Note that staff will be on vacation during the summer and proposals submitted in July will be processed at a reduced pace.

This round is open for proposals until 2026-01-01 00:00.

Resources

Resource	Centre	Upper Limit	Available	Unit	Note
Bianca	UPPMAX	5	500	x 1000 core-h/month
Allocations on Bianca will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Maja for sensitive data. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur during summer 2025. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Maja progress. Bianca is a research system dedicated to analysing sensitive personal data, or other types of sensitive data. Bianca provides 4480 cores in the form of 204 dual CPU (Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3) Huawei XH620 V3 nodes with 128GB memory, 75 fat nodes with 256 GB of memory, 15 nodes with 512 GB of memory, ten nodes with two NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs each.
Cygnus /proj	UPPMAX	10 000	200 000	GiB
Cygnus is the new storage resource attached to Bianca, the NAISS SENS research cluster. The /proj area is backed up.
Cygnus /proj/nobackup	UPPMAX	14 000	200 000	GiB
Cygnus is the new storage resource attached to Bianca, the NAISS SENS research cluster. The /proj/nobackup area is not backed up.

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