National Academic Infrastructure for Super­computing in Sweden

Arrhenius is ranked 42 on TOP500 list of supercomputers

The TOP500 project, which is ranking the world’s most powerful supercomputers, published an updated list on 22 June. Our new supercomputer Arrhenius makes an entry at 42nd place.
“This is an important milestone for us,” says NAISS Director Erik Lindahl.

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New user story: Tommy Löfstedt

Tommy Löfstedt, associate professor and docent in computing science at Umeå University, heads a research group dedicated to machine learning and computer vision. They are currently working on a project which is aiming to improve the automatic segmenting of medical images for children. For this purpose they have been using the NAISS GPU resource Alvis to train thousands of models.

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Arrhenius enters production

Our new supercomputer, Arrhenius, has entered production. Users who have been granted allocations on Arrhenius from June are now getting access to the HPC part of the system.

“Thanks to the excellent work done by the systems team we are able to put Arrhenius into production on schedule,” says Andreas Johansson, NAISS Technical Director and Arrhenius Deputy Project Manager.

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