National Supercomputer Centre (NSC)

13 April 2026

The supercomputer – a pillar of research

Sometimes there is a before and an after. Such as the mobile phone that changed our lives. Or supercomputers that help scientists in their everyday lives. Calculations that were impossible before are now being done around the clock.

04 June 2025

Stronger Berzelius ready for the research of the future

The latest upgrading of the supercomputer Berzelius at LiU has now been completed. Its doubled capacity enables researchers across Sweden to tackle current and future challenges in areas such as materials science, bioinformatics and machine learning.

10 April 2025

Nvidia CEO and Riksdag Speaker to be awarded honorary doctorates

Jensen Huang, CEO of the electronics company Nvidia, will become an honorary doctor at Linköping University. So will Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlén and the international researchers Angela Woods and Gillian Einstein.

A group of people sitting around a conference table

26 August 2024

AI and interdisciplinarity go hand in hand

LiU has gained a strong position in artificial intelligence. In August, the government’s AI Commission visited Campus Valla to listen to researchers and acquaint themselves with supercomputers.

11 June 2024

Supercomputer Berzelius to be upgraded to double capacity

The supercomputer Berzelius is used for research in fields such as life sciences, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This autumn, it will be upgraded thanks to a donation of SEK 125 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

The supercomputer Berzelius photographed with fisheye lens.

24 January 2023

Swedish AI research gets more muscle

The supercomputer Berzelius was inaugurated in the spring of 2021, and was then Sweden's fastest supercomputer for AI. Yet, more power is needed to meet the needs of Swedish AI research.

04 February 2022

Björn Alling sees new opportunities for strengthening NSC

Björn Alling is the new director of the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University. One of his goals is to make more researchers aware of supercomputers as a resource. He also wants the NSC to grow, both nationally and internationally.

09 June 2021

New light on making two-dimensional polymers

Researchers from Linköping University, among others, has developed a method to manufacture two-dimensional polymers with the thickness of a single molecule. The discovery paves the way to new ultrathin and functional materials.

23 March 2021

Sweden’s fastest supercomputer for AI now online

Berzelius is now Sweden’s fastest supercomputer for AI and machine learning, and has been installed at NSC at LiU. A donation of EUR 29.5 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has made the construction possible.

05 October 2020

LiU to build Sweden’s largest supercomputer for AI

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has donated SEK 300 million to Linköping University and the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) to build Sweden´s fastest supercomputer for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

21 January 2020

NSC and SMHI contribute to global climate research

Starting in the autumn of 2019, climate data has been delivered to the global climate research programme CMIP6 from the NSC at Linköping University. This is the result of a long-standing collaboration between SMHI and the NSC.

Kostas Sarakinos, Davide Sangiovanni and George Almyras

08 March 2019

New method opens the way for cutting tools with longer lifetime

Researchers at Linköping University have developed a theoretical model that enables simulations for showing what happens in hard cutting materials as they degrade. The model will enable manufacturing industry to save both time and money.

12 February 2019

AI research needs major investment in infrastructure

“We have survived the AI winter: now we need suitable infrastructure to break the ice.” The words are those of Anders Ynnerman, professor at LiU who once again is standing on the barricades to unite the Swedish research community.

Thomas Sterling, professor of intelligent systems engineering, University of Indiana

12 February 2019

Paradigm shift to give superfast supercomputers

“In just a few years we’ll have supercomputers that work at exaflop speeds. We are witnessing a paradigm shift.” The words are those of Thomas Sterling, a grand old man in supercomputing and professor at Indiana University, visiting NSC and LiU.

Matts Karlsson, Roar Skålin, Rolf Brennerfelt, Sven Stafström and Helen Dannetun

04 February 2019

Sweden’s largest supercomputer brought online

The National Supercomputer Centre, NSC, celebrated its 30th birthday by bringing five supercomputers online, the largest, Tetralith, currently the most powerful in the Nordic region. It also deepens the collaboration between NSC, SMHI and MET Norway.

Data center at National Supercomputer Centre, Campus Valla, Linköping University.

02 October 2018

New research supercomputer online

Swedish research has now gained access to the first 600 nodes of the new supercomputer Tetralith, which will be the most powerful computer in the Nordic region when it comes fully online this autumn. Researchers at LiU also have access to Sigma.

17 April 2018

NSC at LiU to install Scandinavia’s most powerful supercomputer

Swedish researchers will gain access to significantly higher computing power when the most powerful computer in the Nordic region, Tetralith, is installed at National Supercomputer centre. The maximum speed is estimated to be just over 4 petaflops.