NAISS and WASP in joint project to train quality Swedish LLM 20 February 2026 Today the government presented its AI strategy. Among the highlights was the announcement of a new project initiated by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) that will develop high-quality Swedish large language models (LLM) by training on the Berzelius supercomputer … NAISS and WASP in joint project to train quality Swedish LLM
Installation of Arrhenius system underway 17 December 2025 The bulk part of the new Arrhenius supercomputer was delivered to us in early December. It is now being installed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The storage system and sensitive data partition will arrive in the upcoming weeks. “After overseeing the procurement and setup of Arrhenius for … Installation of Arrhenius system underway
Fall 2025 Large and LUMI calls: 41 applications approved under new structure 8 December 2025 The National Allocations Committee (NAC) has held its meetings and decided about the NAISS Large and LUMI Sweden Fall 2025 allocations. As usual, demand outstrips supply for most resources. These are the results: NAISS Large (compute, storage and sensitive resources … Fall 2025 Large and LUMI calls: 41 applications approved under new structure
New Grace Hopper GPU resource available for Medium allocations 20 October 2025 A new high-performance GPU resource is now accessible on our Dardel resource, providing 20,000 GPU hours per month. Eight additional nodes have been purchased, each equipped with four NVIDIA Grace Hopper (H100) GPUs and four NVIDIA Grace ARM CPUs, totalling 32 Grace Hopper … New Grace Hopper GPU resource available for Medium allocations
New allocation structure introduced with NAISS Large Fall 2025 call 23 September 2025 With the NAISS Large Fall 2025 call we are introducing a new structure for NAISS allocation rounds. From now on, users may apply for all types of NAISS resources (compute, storage, sensitive data) in a single proposal. NAISS will no longer have … New allocation structure introduced with NAISS Large Fall 2025 call
Rossen Apostolov and Joel Hedlund join NAISS and Mimer 4 September 2025 We are excited to welcome two new colleagues who are joining us from 1 September: Rossen Apostolov has been appointed Director of the Mimer AI Factory. He has spent many years at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm working with supercomputing and … Rossen Apostolov and Joel Hedlund join NAISS and Mimer
HPE wins Arrhenius contract After a thorough procurement process, NAISS and EuroHPC JU (Joint Undertaking) have awarded HPE the contract to deliver the new Swedish supercomputer, Arrhenius. 10 July 2025 “We are very pleased with this outcome. We are getting a considerably faster and more capable system than we initially thought possible. This will greatly … HPE wins Arrhenius contract
NAISS in partnership with Nvidia and the National Library of Sweden to train LLMs NAISS will partner with Nvidia and the National Library of Sweden to support the development of Swedish state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), with a specific focus of achieving sovereign AI capabilities and accelerate enterprise AI adoption among Swedish industries. 11 June … NAISS in partnership with Nvidia and the National Library of Sweden to train LLMs
Spring 2025 Large calls: NAISS approves 35 proposals Allocation decisions have now been made in the Spring 2025 Large round. In total, 35 compute and storage applications were approved. According to Peter Münger, Chair of the NAISS Allocation Committee working group, NAISS received 48 applications of which 35 were approved. Breakdown per resource type: The … Spring 2025 Large calls: NAISS approves 35 proposals
NAISS welcomes new Steering Committee members Linköping University has appointed four new members to the NAISS Steering Committee from 1 January 2025. 14 January 2025 The new members have been appointed for two years. They are: They are joining original members Bengt Persson and Anders Ynnerman. The Steering Committee Chairman, Jan-Eric Sundgren, has agreed to … NAISS welcomes new Steering Committee members