NAISS has concluded the Fall 2024 Large allocation calls. 57 proposals were granted compute and storage resources for 2025.

In addition to compute resources Alvis, Tetralith, Dardel and various storage resources, GPU compute resources on the Swedish share of the Finnish LUMI supercomputer were also included.

Photo of Peter Münger
Peter Münger. Photo: Magnus Johansson

“We received 79 proposals, of which 57 were approved. The estimated total value of the research infrastructure resources allocated in this call is SEK 50 million”, says Peter Münger, Chair of the NAISS Allocation Committee working group.

Breakdown per resource type:

  • Compute resources (excluding LUMI): 41 applications – 28 approved
  • Storage resources: 26 applications – 18 approved
  • LUMI (AMD GPU): 12 applications – 11 approved

These are the dominating research areas among the Fall 2024 proposals:

  • Mechanical engineering (e.g. flow dynamics)
  • Physical sciences (e.g. materials physics)
  • Biology/life sciences
  • Chemical sciences (e.g. biochemistry)

This round saw an uptick in demand for storage compared to the Large Fall 2023 round.

“The general trend is that storage demands are increasing. It could be related to bioinformatics and large data sets used to train AI models,” says Peter Münger.

The next large allocation round is the Spring 2025 call which will open in March 2025.