To apply, you must be a scientist in Swedish academia, at least at the level of Doctoral student. Doctoral students must provide the name and affiliation of their main supervisor in the proposal.
Proposals are processed weekly.
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 2027-01-01 00:00.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Alvis as it will be decommissioned.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Alvis as it will be decommissioned.
The Alvis resource is dedicated for research in and research using AI/ML techniques.
For general use of GPU:s please use Dardel GPU instead, for generation of training data use Dardel or Tetralith.
Allocations on Alvis will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur in the spring of 2026. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Arrhenius progresses.
The Alvis cluster is a national NAISS resource dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning research.
Note: Significant generation of training data is expected to be done elsewhere.
The system is built around Graphical Processing Units
(GPUs) accelerator cards. The first phase of the resource has 160 NVIDIA T4, 44
V100, and 4 A100 GPUs. The second phase is based on 340 NVIDIA A40 and 336
A100 GPUs.
Storage attached to Alvis and Vera at C3SE.
Please use Mimer if you only use Alvis.
Please note that all NAISS allocattions on Cephyr NOBACKUP will end 2026-06-30.
Project storage based on Ceph with a total usable area of 5 PiB.
14 Storage servers, each with 3 NvMe:s (for database and journal).
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Mimer as it will be decommissioned.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Mimer as it will be decommissioned.
Allocations on Mimer will be scaled and transferred to storage on the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur in the spring of 2026. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Arrhenius progresses.
Project storage attached to Alvis and Vera, dedicated for AI/ML
Mimer is an all-flashed based storage system based on as solution from WEKA IO.
It consists of an 0.6 PB all-flash tier and a 7 PB Ceph based bulk storage tier (with spinning disk).
Arrhenius PCD will be in production from July first, 2026
Arrhenius Persistent Compute and Data (PCD) is a national cloud service provided by NAISS that gives researchers in Sweden flexible access to computing resources for their work. It is designed to support projects that benefit from adaptable environments, such as developing new tools, testing ideas, or running data-driven applications. PCD complements traditional high-performance computing by offering a more customizable and accessible platform, helping researchers explore and innovate across a wide range of disciplines.
Arrhenius CPU is planned to be in production from June 1, 2026
Arrhenius CPU contains two CPU node types, 192 thin nodes, and 20 fat nodes. Each node have 256 cores split between two CPU:s. The thin nodes have 768 GB RAM and the fat nodes have 3072 GB RAM. There is a 1.92 TB local SSD on each node. It is accompanied with the Arrhenius Disk and Arrhenius Flash storage systems.
Arrhenius CPU is primarily intended for work that cannot be moved to the much more powerful accelerated computational resource, the Arrhenius GPU. Projects with such needs will be prioritized on Arrhenius CPU.
Arrhenius GPU is planned to be in production from June 1, 2026
Arrhenius GPU contains 382 GPU nodes. Each GPU node have 4x Nvidia GH200 GPU:s with 96GB HBM and 128 GB LPDDR Modules. There is a 1.92 TB local SSD on each node. Arrhenius GPU is accompanied with the Arrhenius Disk and the Arrhenius Flash storage systems.
Arrhenius GPU provide the main computational power in the Arrhenius HPC system.
Arrhenius Disk is planned to be in production from June 1, 2026
Project disk storage for projects with compute allocations on Arrhenius GPU and/or Arrhenius CPU.
Using the Lustre parallel filesystem, it is designed for fast access from Arrhenius GPU and Arrhenius CPU. File contents are stored on spinning disks. The total size of Arrhenius Disk is 25 PB. There is no backup of Arrhenius Disk.
Arrhenius Flash is planned to be in production from June 1, 2026
Project flash storage for projects with compute allocations on Arrhenius GPU and/or Arrhenius CPU.
Using the Lustre parallel filesystem, it is designed for fast access from Arrhenius GPU and Arrhenius CPU. File contents are stored on NVMe SSDs, allowing for a higher small random IOPS compared to Arrhenius Disk. The total size of Arrhenius Flash is 2 PB. There is no backup of Arrhenius Flash.
Arrhenius Flash is only for projects that benefit significantly from the higher small random IOPS.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Tetralith as it will be decommissioned.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Tetralith as it will be decommissioned.
Projects will receive a default 500 GiB storage allocation on Centre Storage at NSC. If you need more storage, please apply for a Storage project and decline default storage from this compute proposal.
Allocations on Tetralith will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur in the spring of 2026. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Arrhenius progresses.
Tetralith is a general computational resource hosted by NSC at Linköping University.
Tetralith servers have two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 processors, providing 32 cores per server. 1844 of the servers are equipped with 96 GiB of primary memory and 64 servers with 384 GiB. All servers are interconnected with a 100 Gbit/s Intel Omni- Path network which is also used to connect the existing storage. Each server has a local SSD disk for ephemeral storage (approx. 200GiB per thin node, 900GiB per fat node). An IBM Spectrum Scale system comprises the centre storage. 170 of the Tetralith nodes are equipped with one NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU each as well as a high- performance NVMe SSD scratch disk of 2TB.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Centre Storage as it will be decommissioned.
It is not possible to apply for allocations on Centre Storage as it will be decommissioned.
Allocations on Centre Storage will be scaled and transferred to storage on the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur in the spring of 2026. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Arrhenius progresses.
Project storage for NAISS as well as LiU Local projects with compute allocations on resources hosted by NSC.
Centre Storage @ NSC is designed for fast access from compute resources at NSC. It consists of one IBM ESS GL6S building block and one IBM ESS 5000 SC4 building block.
In total there are 946 spinning hard disks and a small number of NVRAM devices and SSDs which act as a cache to speed up small writes. The total disk space that is usable for storing files is approximately 6.9 PiB.
Allocations on Dardel will be scaled and transferred to Arrhenius from 2027-01-01
NAISS will terminate operation of Dardel on 2027-01-01. Allocation will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS best estimate now that there will be a time period with overlapping allocations in November and December 2026.
Dardel is a Cray EX system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, based on AMD EPYC processors with an accompanying Lustre storage system.
The nodes are interconnected using Slingshot HPC Ethernet.
Allocations on Dardel-GPU will be scaled and transferred to Arrhenius from 2027-01-01
These GPUs are not nVIDIA GPUs but rather AMD GPUs, so if your software runs using CUDA, a certain amount of conversion of the code is needed.
You can read information about this at https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/preparing-codes-for-lumi-converting-cuda-applications-to-hip/
NAISS will terminate operation of Dardel-GPU on 2027-01-01. Allocation will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS best estimate now that there will be a time period with overlapping allocations in November and December 2026.
Dardel-GPU is the accelerated partition based on AMD’s Instinct MI250X GPU of the Cray EX system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It has an accompanying Lustre storage system.
The nodes are interconnected using Slingshot HPC Ethernet.
Allocations on Klemming will be scaled and transferred to Arrhenius from 2027-01-01
More information about project directories in Klemming can be found at
https://www.pdc.kth.se/support/documents/data_management/lustre.html.
NAISS will terminate operation of Klemming on 2027-01-01 as the compute resources Dardel, Dardel-GPU and Dardel-GH will be terminated on that date. Allocations will be scaled and transferred to the new system Arrhenius. It is NAISS best estimate now that there will be a time period with overlapping allocations in November and December 2026.
Project storage for NAISS as well as PDC projects with compute allocations on resources hosted by PDC.
Klemming is designed for fast access from compute resources at PCD. It uses the Lustre parallel file system, which is optimized for handling data from many clients at the same time. The total size of Klemming is 12 PB.
Allocations on Cloud will be scaled and transferred to the new NAISS system Arrhenius. It is NAISS's best estimate now that this will occur in the spring of 2026. More information will be announced as procurement and installation of Arrhenius progresses.
Swedish Science Cloud (SSC) is a geographically distributed OpenStack cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), intended for Swedish academic research provided by NAISS.
It is available free of charge to researchers at Swedish higher education institutions through open application procedures.
The SSC resources are not meant to be a replacement for NAISS supercomputing resources (HPC clusters). Rather, it should be seen as a complement, offering advanced functionality to users who need more flexible access to resources (for example more control over the operating systems and software environments), want to develop software as a service, or want to explore recent technology such as for “Big Data” (e.g. Apache Hadoop/Spark) or IoT applications.
Examples of applications that must run in the normal HPC clusters since the SSC isn't built for those purposes.
AI/LLM/Deep Learning and other applications relying on GPU resources cannot be run in the SSC due to the limited access to GPU's.
Applications assuming high performance or large volumes of storage, network, or cores.
Benchmarking will not perform well within SSC due to performance limitations.
SSC isn't classified for Sensitive data, those project MUST use Cluster system for sensitive data within NAISS.
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 early 2026. 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.
