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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

Expanding Betzy and Saga 07.04.2021 We are happy to announce that the compute capacity of Betzy and Saga will be expanded. Both machine expansions should be completed by the end of A

Switch off for Vilje and Stallo 07.03.2021 Supercomputers Vilje and Stallo are decommissioned after long and faithful service for many years. Stallo Stallo, its name borro

NORCE, SINTEF and Sigma2 partnering to establish the Norwegian EuroHPC CC 10.12.2020 NORCE, SINTEF and Sigma2 have joined a two-year EU project, EuroCC to establish the Norwegian EuroHPC Com

Increased Covid-19 reservations on Saga and Fram 16.11.2020 More e-infrastructure resources has been made available to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for Covid-19 related research.

One of the world’s mightiest supercomputers, LUMI, will lift European research and competitiveness to a new level 20.10.2020 Norway, through Sigma2, is a partner in one of the most powerful

Contribute to future EuroHPC strategy as industry expert 30.06.2020 Sigma2 is looking for Norwegian experts on HPC usage in the industry who can contribute to the future strategy of EuroHPC