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We have improved the NIRD Toolkit to allow easier authentication and enhance the user experience. More than 89.000 lines of code have been changed in the process.

The new research archive is underway 20.06.2022 We are happy to inform you that the concept phase of the Sigma2’ Next Generation Research Data Archive project has been successfully completed

LUMI is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation 13.06.2022 LUMI is the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking's first pre-exascale supercomputer and currently stands as Europe’s mo

LUMI ranked third on Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s LUMI supercomputer reached the 3rd spot on the latest Top500 list of the world’s fastest s

Who decides how the national e-infrastructure resources are used? 09.05.2022 When scientists in Norway need access to high-performance computing and data resources to conduct their research,

Soon Norway will get considerably greater access to AI capacity 01.04.2022 The constant development of systems for automation gives increased focus on research activities within artificial i

Sigma2 acquires new national storage infrastructure 19.01.2022 The new storage system is part of the national e-infrastructure for research and education and will by far be the largest offer

RCN awards research infrastructure projects 16.12.2021 The Research Council of Norway (RCN) recently awarded 22 new applications for research infrastructure. A total of NOK 1.4 billion will

National budget 2021 10.12.2021 The national budget for 2021 contains items of particular interest for researchers using advanced technology, such as HPC. In the budget, there is a sp

Now the first pilots are running on LUMI  09.11.2021 The first pilot phase of the LUMI supercomputer launched on 20 October. In this pilot phase, two pilot projects from each member cou

Who is using our supercomputers? 08.11.2021 In close collaboration with the Research Allocation Committee, we have now finalised the evaluation of research applications for the 2nd resource

Sigma2 chooses national provider of data centre Sigma2 AS will sign a contract with Lefdal Mine Datacenter AS for data centre capacity for future national supercomputers and storage systems

200 million Norwegian CPU hours to the IPCC report 28.09.2021 Norwegian climate researchers have offered significant findings to the recent IPCC climate report. As many as 200 millio

Now supercomputer LUMI’s full system architecture is revealed 11.09.2021 The LUMI consortium reveal the full specs of LUMI after AMD published its new generation of AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25

One of the world`s largest computers opens for pilots 01.09.2021 In July, selected projects will start pilot testing LUMI, one of the world's largest computers. The selection of pilo

New name for the Metacenter: NRIS 31.08.2021 The collaboration between Sigma2 and the four universities NTNU and the Universities of Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø – the so-called Metacen

Diligent preparations paid off as the EOSC-Nordic project recently passed its important midway review. All the deliverables were approved by three experts appointed by the European Commission.

Why not store and compute in the same place?   26.05.2021 The amount of research that requires big data analytics is steadily increasing, and many researchers experience a growing need to st

Two Norwegian projects awarded computing time from PRACE 28.04.2021 In the 22nd PRACE Call, for the first time, two Norwegian-led projects were awarded. They receive a total of over

Optimise your code 18.04.2021 We encourage all our users to optimize their code. Optimizing the compilation of your code may dramatically increase code performance. When optimizing yo